英语词汇“profit motif”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

6. A motivating, dominant, or regulating idea, esp. a recurrent or pervasive one. Frequently in profit motif (cf. profit motive n. at profit n. Compounds 1b).In later use frequently overlapping with sense 4 (see, e.g., quots. 1948, a1961).

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1874 J. O. Dykes Relations Kingdom to World 163 The very motif to such false teaching is a desire to broaden somewhat the excessive straitness of the gospel path to life.

1887 G. T. Ladd Elem. Physiol. Psychol. 463 The motifs or data which the mind would have for constructing such a surface must be found in the series of sensations of light and color.

1932 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 42 118 The growth of the private profit motif in any professional man marks in him the recession of the professional spirit.

1948 Sociometry 11 220 Other highly chosen sentiments include ‘serving the community’, ‘promoting pleasure for others’, ‘self-sacrifice’, and ‘duty’, all of which in operation together form a ‘service to others’ motif.

a1961 in Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1961) (at cited word) The motif of the new measure is reformation. Spectator.

1993 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 15 Apr. c1/2 The profit motif is television. Television controls the purse strings.

单词	profit motif
释义	> as lemmas profit motif 6. A motivating, dominant, or regulating idea, esp. a recurrent or pervasive one. Frequently in profit motif (cf. profit motive n. at profit n. Compounds 1b).In later use frequently overlapping with sense 4 (see, e.g., quots. 1948, a1961). ΚΠ 1874 J. O. Dykes Relations Kingdom to World 163 The very motif to such false teaching is a desire to broaden somewhat the excessive straitness of the gospel path to life. 1887 G. T. Ladd Elem. Physiol. Psychol. 463 The motifs or data which the mind would have for constructing such a surface must be found in the series of sensations of light and color. 1932 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 42 118 The growth of the private profit motif in any professional man marks in him the recession of the professional spirit. 1948 Sociometry 11 220 Other highly chosen sentiments include ‘serving the community’, ‘promoting pleasure for others’, ‘self-sacrifice’, and ‘duty’, all of which in operation together form a ‘service to others’ motif. a1961 in Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1961) (at cited word) The motif of the new measure is reformation. Spectator. 1993 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 15 Apr. c1/2 The profit motif is television. Television controls the purse strings. extracted from motifn. < as lemmas
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