motifs

英 [məʊˈtiːfs]

美 [moʊˈtifs]

n.  装饰图案; 装饰图形; (文学作品或音乐的)主题， 主旨， 动机
motif的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (作为装饰的)图形，图式
  Amotifis a design which is used as a decoration or as part of an artistic pattern.
  1. ...a rose motif.
     玫瑰图案
• N-COUNT 主题;中心思想
  Amotifis a theme or idea that is frequently repeated throughout a piece of literature or music.
  1. The motif of these volumes is that 'solitude is the richness of the soul, loneliness is its poverty.'
     这几卷的主题是“孤独是灵魂的财富，寂寞是灵魂的贫瘠”。

双语例句

• The Bronze Age rock carvings in Tanum represent a unique artistic achievement through their rich and varied motifs.
  青铜时代岩画在塔努姆代表一个独特的艺术成就通过其丰富多样的图案。
• Motifs presented are not clues in solving Fang's paintings, as vagueness itself is deliberately the fundamental metaphor.
  方力钧没有替画作提供主题，因为他有意令内容含糊用作根本性的比喻。
• These same Achaemenids also adopted Assyrian and Babylonian motifs for their monumental art, including the winged disc.
  同样是这些阿切曼尼人也采用了阿述和巴比伦的图案作为他们的纪念碑艺术，包括有翼的圆盘。
• Furniture made by ( or in the style of) Thomas Chippendale; graceful outlines and Gothic motifs and massive rococo carvings.
  托马斯·齐本德尔设计（或此种风格的）家具；有着优雅的轮廓、哥特式图形和大量洛可可雕刻。
• Archetypal criticism refers to the investigation and analysis of archetypal and mythical narrative patterns, character types, themes and motifs in literature and their recurrence in literature.
  原型批评指的是对文学中原型的与神话的叙事模式、人物类型、主题与母题，或是对这些因素在文学中的复现进行的研究分析。
• This color-sensitive inventiveness leads to a variation of repetitions of form and motifs.
  此颜色敏感的发明导致了变化重复的形式和图案。
• In which the motifs of decoration are borrowed from flora and fauna.
  在该图案的装饰都是借来的，由动植物。
• Indeed, the artist has extended his interest in philosophy by developing his own conceptual and visual vocabulary, motifs which he finds central to western philosophy.
  通过发展自己的概念词汇和视觉词汇&那些他认为对西方哲学最为重要的主题，他延伸了对哲学的兴趣和关注。
• Technicians were therefore able to provide both minimum and maximum ages for such motifs.
  因此技术人员能够得出这些作品的最低和最高年份。
• Three biblical and mythical motifs are embodied in Sula, namely the quest motif, the sacrificial scapegoat motif, and the rebirth motif.
  《秀拉》主要表现了三个圣经神话主题：追寻主题、替罪羊主题及再生主题。