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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, Paganel, I wonder if it is possible to make him understand the object of our expedition, and what our motive is for always going east."
-- Evidently motive power lay in the cloud itself, for there was not a breath of wind.
-- "I wish," remarked John, "that Maunganamu could carry us himself, with all the motive power that he has inside.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My motive for withholding it from the coroner's inquiry is that a man of science shrinks from placing himself in the public position of seeming to indorse a popular superstition.
-- I had the further motive that Baskerville Hall, as the paper says, would certainly remain untenanted if anything were done to increase its already rather grim reputation.
-- So far as the Barrymores go we have found the motive of their actions, and that has cleared up the situation very much.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet that was my whole motive for coming.
-- 'Don't be in a hurry, mother; the prince says that he has some motive behind his simplicity,' cried Aglaya.
-- Of the rest of the audience, many had understood the allusion and wondered both at the daring of the lady and at the motive underlying it, but tried to show no sign of their feelings.
-- Politely, but in dignified terms, as befitted his errand, he briefly explained the motive for his visit.
-- At times I have imagined that all men were the same,' he continued earnestly, for he ap-peared to be much interested in the conversation, 'and that consoled me in a certain degree, for a DOUBLE motive is a thing most difficult to fight against.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could have forgiven him a little even, had his motive been only hate.
-- But Montgomery was still sober enough to understand my motive in denying Moreau's death.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He then signed to Heyward to assist the sisters into the saddles, for he seldom deigned to use the English tongue, unless urged by some motive of more than usual moment.
-- 'We consider the qualities as inseparable,' returned Duncan, smiling; 'but while we find in the vigor of your excellency every motive to stimulate the one, we can, as yet, see no particular call for the exercise of the other.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had an unerring eye for the despicable motive in actions that had all the appearance of innocence.
-- "Damn it all," I said, more violently because I had an inkling my motive was none too creditable, "I don't want to know you."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this way, by means of a long rope reaching to the ground, which enabled them to regulate the motive power, they could rise in the basket to the door of Granite House.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, as if forgetting his motive in the very action, he turned away and put it down again.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When, however, they began to discuss the part she had taken in the poisoning, her warm supporter, the merchant, argued that this charge must also be dismissed, as she had no motive for poisoning him.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Could you have a motive for the trust, that was not honourable and flattering to me?"
-- Whatever Marianne was desirous of, her mother would be eager to promote she could not expect to influence the latter to cautiousness of conduct in an affair respecting which she had never been able to inspire her with distrust; and she dared not explain the motive of her own disinclination for going to London.
-- "I do not know," said he, after a pause of expectation on her side, and thoughtfulness on his own, "how YOU may have accounted for my behaviour to your sister, or what diabolical motive you may have imputed to me. Perhaps you will hardly think the better of me, it is worth the trial however, and you shall hear every thing.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh, no," said Carrie, the whole motive of the man flashing on her at once.
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