| 单词 | motive pattern |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmotive pattern motive pattern n. an expected or repeated pattern of motives. ΚΠ 1938 Rev. Econ. Stud. 5 137 In fact they are not the real motives, but a kind of conventional substitutes [sic], ‘motive pattern’ as we may call them. 1941 A. Koestler Scum of Earth 232 No attempt to discriminate, to discover political motive-patterns. 1998 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 21 Nov. 15 Gibbon's socialism was estranged from the totalitarian ‘socialism’ of the 1930s; and to those who understand the motive pattern of socialism as emancipation from oppression his sort of socialism was seen at its best in Grey Granite. < as lemmas |
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