单词	prime mover
释义	prime moverˌprime ˈmover noun [countable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Kohl always wanted to be seen as a prime mover for European unity. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS I congratulate you, prime mover! If Darwin were alive today, he would surely place mankind as the prime mover in global evolution. In Krashen's theory, acquisition is the grand initiator of messages and the prime mover in communication. The prime mover was George Dodson. The other prime mover was that the slump is now in its dying throes. The press had become a prime mover in determining government policy and influencing public opinion. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► Prime Mover Aristotle proposes that the Primum Mobile turns as a result of a craving for perfection generated in it by the Prime Mover. But I think there's a more powerful force in this universe than the Prime Mover. He must place his trust in the Prime Mover. If she believed in the Prime Mover she would be praying. Spike couldn't rant against the Prime Mover. The universe is animated by an all-pervasive aspiration to a higher state, a greater perfection as embodied in the Prime Mover. This is a holy war, and only the Prime Mover can decide who lives and who dies. When our life systems are terminated we will again return to the Prime Mover. 1someone who helps to make something happen and has great influence in the way it developsprime mover in/of/behind He was a prime mover in the bid to get better pay for West Indian cricketers. She was a prime mover of social change in the 19th century.2Prime Mover a way of referring to God
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