| 单词 | well-motiviert |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswell-motiviert Of the characters in a drama, their actions, etc.: motivated, provided with or accounted for by a motive. Frequently with modifying adverb, esp. in ill-motiviert, well-motiviert.Used by Poe to describe the construction, plot, etc., of an entire drama. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [adjective] > of character: provided with motive motiviert1812 1812 H. C. Robinson Diary 20 Aug. in On Bks. & their Writers (1938) I. 108 He [sc. Coleridge] thinks the character of Faust himself not motiviert. 1841 E. A. Poe in Graham's Mag. Nov. 248/1 A German critic would say that the whole is excessively ill-motiviert. 1844 E. A. Poe Compl. Wks. (1902) XVI. 50 A well-motiviert whole of absolute unity of effect. 1844 E. A. Poe in Graham's Mag. July 1/2 A motive not motivirt. 1890 G. B. Shaw Let. 17 Aug. (1965) I. 255 I also opined that the fatalistic apathy of Christ..was inadequately motivirt. < as lemmas |
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