mainspring

1 Johnnie's ingrained obedience to the Jesuit is one of the mainsprings of the plot, yet there is nothing in the story to make this exaggerated devotion seem natural.

2 Leiber's versatility allowed them to create a country hit, Jackson, for Johnny Cash and June Carter in 1967, in collaboration with the songwriter Billy Edd Wheeler, but the creative mainspring was winding down.

3 The keepers of the mainspring have little faith in it workings.

主要推动力的管理者们对其运转几乎毫无信心.

4 “The mainspring of superstition is fear; by fear too is superstition sustained and nourished.”

5 The base of Carnot's character was that faculty for organization which was the mainspring of Gavan Duffy's various and powerful genius.

6 The first watches appeared shortly after 1500, when the mainspring was invented as a replacement for weights in driving clocks.

在1500年初用发条代替钟锤来驱动时钟发明后不久，就出现了第一批表。

7 The film opens with a distant shot of a group of boys in a Brooklyn park and the incident that is the mainspring of the plot: one of the boys hits another with a stick.

8 Her jealousy is the mainspring of the novel's plot.

这部小说情节中贯穿了她的忌妒之心。

9 But it was more than that; it was the mainspring of his life, and he allowed nothing to imperil the relationship.

10 My life has been music, and a constant search for it has been the mainspring of my life.

我以音乐为生，对音乐的不懈探索已经成为我生活的动力。

11 The rum distilled here, was the mainspring of this traffic.

12 Agriculture is the mainspring of their economy.

13 I wanted to see it; I wanted to explore it, and to find the mainspring that moved its mystery.

14 The love of music was a mainspring of his life.

对音乐的热爱是他一生中的主要部分。

15 The mainspring, once reaching a power reserve of 50 hours, will cause the winding mechanism to disengage in order to protect the movement from being overwound.

16 The mainspring of this imagined future clash is not race and slavery, but science and the environment.

17 Now the mainspring had suddenly failed; she felt weak and frightened.

18 The dawning of knowledge, the instant of understanding, the way an idea comes together at once as if with the satisfying snap of a seat-belt buckle—such well-prepared serendipities are the mainsprings of “The Martian.”

19 Gazprom’s exports of natural gas to Europe, which form the mainspring of its wealth, are falling, and a potentially major fight is brewing over price fixing.

20 The mainspring of “Money Monster” is Lee’s substitute of histrionics for substance, yet the movie is of a piece with the broadcasts that are its subject.

1 主要动机

leading motive

2 动机

cause reason ground score spring incentive motive

3 主要原因

as much as anything be-all