motive是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 动机， 目的a. 发动的， 运动的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neither did he call it a curious coincidence that true patriotism was HIS only motive too.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her only motive is to avoid refusing and to please mamma.
-- Your very motive is different.
-- She appeared not to understand the motive of his words.
-- The motive of Kitty's words was interpreted by Levin thus: "Don't separate me from HIM.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had a motive for securing your innocent complicity."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In one place one hears of a student's robbing the mail on the high road; in another place people of good social position forge false banknotes; in Moscow of late a whole gang has been captured who used to forge lottery tickets, and one of the ringleaders was a lec-turer in universal history; then our secretary abroad was murdered from some obscure motive of gain芒聙娄.
-- But that is not the chief motive for my deci-sion芒聙娄.'
-- The lat-474 Crime and Punishmentter fact was very significant in Raskolnikov's eyes: he saw that Porfiry Petrovitch had not been embarrassed just be-fore either, but that he, Raskolnikov, had perhaps fallen into a trap; that there must be something, some motive here un-known to him; that, perhaps, everything was in readiness and in another moment would break upon him 芒聙娄 He went straight to the point at once, rose from his seat and took his cap.
-- He can't be showing off his power with no motive 芒聙娄 prompting me; he is far too clever for that 芒聙娄 he must have another object.
-- 'What is your motive for such benevolence?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What's your motive in this?'
-- 'You claim to have oneplain motive in all you do yourself.
-- 'Ay, but I have onlyone motive in life, Miss Trotwood,' he rejoined, smiling.
-- When I heard how he said it, and saw how he held her hand,I guessed what the one motive of his life was.
-- 'My dear Strong,' said Mr. Wickfield in atremulous voice, my good friend, I needn't tell you that it has beenmy vice to look for some one master motive in everybody, and totry all actions by one narrow test.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The landed property of Hart-166 Emmafield certainly was inconsiderable, being but a sort of notch in the Donwell Abbey estate, to which all the rest of High-bury belonged; but their fortune, from other sources, was such as to make them scarcely secondary to Donwell Abbey itself, in every other kind of consequence; and the Wood-houses had long held a high place in the consideration of the neighbourhood which Mr. Elton had first entered not two years ago, to make his way as he could, without any alliances but in trade, or any thing to recommend him to notice but his situation and his civility. But he had fan-cied her in love with him; that evidently must have been his dependence; and after raving a little about the seeming incongruity of gentle manners and a conceited head, Emma was obliged in common honesty to stop and admit that her own behaviour to him had been so complaisant and oblig-ing, so full of courtesy and attention, as (supposing her real motive unperceived) might warrant a man of ordinary ob-servation and delicacy, like Mr. Elton, in fancying himself a very decided favourite.
-- It was her own choice to give the time of their absence to Highbury; to spend, perhaps, her last months of perfect liberty with those kind relations to whom she was so very dear: and the Campbells, whatever might be their motive or motives, whether single, or double, or treble, gave the arrangement their ready sanc-tion, and said, that they depended more on a few months spent in her native air, for the recovery of her health, than on any thing else.
-- She soon resolved, equally as a duty and a pleasure, to employ half an hour of this holiday of spirits in calling on Miss Fairfax. She ought to go and she was longing to see her; the resemblance of their present situations increasing 554 Emmaevery other motive of goodwill.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She did not adjust her hat, or pat her hair, or press a dimple into shape, or do one thing to signify that any such intention had been her motive in taking up the glass.
-- The same fascination that caused him to think it an act which had a deliberate motive prevented him from regarding it as an impertinence.
-- So still he remained that he could be imagined to have left in him no motive power whatever.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We are all unhappy; but will not that be an additional motive for you, my son, to return and be our comforter?
-- The story is too connected to be mistaken for a dream, and I have no motive for falsehood.'
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