| 单词 | spring of action |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspring of action (also conduct) (b) spec. in spring of action (also conduct) and variants. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > cause or reason > [noun] > reason or ground achesounc1230 anchesouna1250 reasona1250 groundc1275 matter1340 purposec1350 cause1413 quarrel1476 actiona1500 subject1577 spring of action1583 qualitya1586 inducement1593 place1593 theme1594 instance1597 motive1605 impulsivea1628 justifiera1635 foundation1641 rise1641 plummet1679 mainspring1695 1583 A. Marten tr. P. M. Vermigli Common Places ii. i. 241/2 Those affections, which be the springs and beginnings of actions. 1591 J. Penry tr. T. de Bèze Propositions & Princ. Diuinitie xi. 20 Among those second causes..we are to consider two, vz. the vnderstanding, and the will, as the spring of the actions of men. 1680 tr. P. Nicole Moral Ess. vi. 305 There needs nothing but to suffer the two main springs of mens Rule and Conduct, Idleness and Vanity to act. 1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature ix. 173 The springs of all human actions. 1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 285 It is difficult..to come at the true springs of action. 1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London III. vi. 174 Whether public zeal and patriotic motives, were the springs of his lordship's conduct. 1885 J. Martineau Types Ethical Theory II. ii. iii. 518 Numerous springs of action and modes of feeling which neither interest nor reason could be shown to evolve. 1958 W. Plomer At Home (1961) 117 The springs of action, as Lowes Dickinson once said, lie deep in ignorance and madness. 2001 Australian (Nexis) 21 Mar. 40 Modern liberalism, which puts freedom first, provides a moving principle and a spring of action. < as lemmas |
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