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单词 go through the motions
释义

motion /mōˈshən/

noun
  1. The act, state or manner of changing place
  2. A single movement
  3. Change of posture
  4. Power of moving or of being moved
  5. Agitation
  6. A natural impulse
  7. A working in the mind
  8. A feeling, an emotion (obsolete)
  9. A prompting, an instigation (obsolete)
  10. A formal proposal put before a meeting
  11. An application to a court, during a case before it, for an order or rule that something be done, esp something incidental to the progress of the cause rather than its issue (law)
  12. Evacuation of the bowels
  13. A piece of mechanism
  14. Progression of a part (music)
  15. A puppet show (obsolete)
  16. A puppet (Shakespeare)
  17. (usu in pl) faeces
transitive verb
  1. To direct or indicate by a gesture
  2. To move, propose
  3. To make a movement indicating as one's intention (obsolete)
  4. To give motion to
intransitive verb

To offer a proposal

ORIGIN: Fr motion, from L mōtiō, -ōnis, from movēre, mōtum to move

mōˈtional adjective

mōˈtionist noun (Milton)

A person who is good at making suggestions or recommendations

mōˈtionless adjective

Without motion

mōˈtionlessly adverb

motion capture noun

(in film) a technique in which the movements of actors are recorded as the basis of those of computer-generated characters

mōˈtion-man noun (obsolete)

A puppeteer

motion picture noun (chiefly US)

A cinema film

motion sickness same as travel sickness (see under travel).

angular motion

Change of angle between a standard direction and a line joining the moving object and a fixed point

go through the motions

  1. To make a half-hearted attempt
  2. To pretend

laws of motion

  1. Newton's three laws: (1) every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, except so far as it may be compelled by force to change that state
  2. (2) change of motion is proportional to force applied, and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts
  3. (3) to every action there is always an equal and contrary reaction

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