motif

1 Other motifs in the story are attached to concepts, for example ‘transformation’ or ‘love’ or ‘servitude’, or to things, such as a ‘spear’, the ‘gold’ or the ‘River Rhine’.

2 The video evokes an impressive number of religious and classical motifs that intersect with questions of queer identity, marginalization and religion.

3 Several of its isolated fragments of melody seemed designed to morph and spin away from the opening motifs, the quicker the better.

4 Later markets were smaller, but no less impressive, breaking out in the curves and naturalistic motifs of Modernista architecture.

5 Her pieces’ ample shapes and tactile botanical motifs earned her the MoMu Award, the prize from Antwerp’s fashion museum.

6 From the start, sections of the orchestra, especially the strings, play undulating, lapping motifs that murmur and bustle, as if rhythmic riffs and whole themes were trying to coalesce into forms more concrete.

7 Inside, it is decorated with a medallion at the bottom and a quatrefoil motif surrounded by flowers.

8 The central motif of this passage is not so much the impartial insight into the indigenous plants of the island as that of ordering, classification and the creation of a perfect system.

9 This heavy, glossy coffee-table book explores how flowers and floral motifs have been used over the ages in art, fashion and design.

10 The motif seems yet another relic of the Bush years, of a piece with the administration’s “torture memos.”

11 Some of the newer designs are requested by vendors outside Romania, many of whom tend to avoid ancestral motifs featuring animals and prefer bolder and monochrome palettes.

12 Alienation is a central motif in her novels.

疏离感是她小说的一个重要的主题。

13 That her unflinchingly bright motifs were hand-drawn added a noticeable optical wobble.

14 “I’m loving how couples this year are drawing inspiration from the groovy gatherings of the 1970s, adding retro lettering, pastel color palettes, and disco motifs into the big day.”

15 The iconic Baroque Versace motif made appearances as appliques sewn onto wool coats or in the familiar gold-and-black print in a quilted coat.

16 The image of an old coffee can, repurposed to contain a dozen-plus paint brushes, is one of the artist’s crowning motifs.

17 Another motif, an unsettling slide down a semitone, recalls one that Mahler used in his symphonies to indicate destiny.

18 The rock motif continues in a piece that expands Tague’s trademark series of images derived from U.S. currency by adding Kiss’s face makeup to the engraved portraits of Lincoln, Hamilton, Jefferson and Grant.

19 The four players have communicated the intensity Tower wanted, including in three cadenzas for violin, viola and cello, but the composer’s hammering of the same motifs grows tiresome with repeated listening.

20 It's quite easy to see that good lighting or good materials might help, less so the personal artistic motifs and manoeuvres of individual designers.

1 穗带

braid

2 图案

design pattern patchwork

3 基调

key mood keynote atmosphere

4 装饰图案

design decoration

5 主旨

motivic point effect message burden drift keynote lemma leitmotif substance keystone purport gist whole thematic thrust tenor subject motive

6 要点

thing point feature head force short heart main essential highlight hang outline sum burden knot drift kernel hinge pivot gist crux upshot nub pith essentiality

7 格调

tone ambience

8 刺激

exciting electric incentive stimulating fiery irritating stimulant irritant action-packed pinprick charge kick boot trigger belt jar motivation needle excitement bang spur cue yeast ginger encouragement impulse stimulus irritation sting mustard scorpion persuasive provocative impetus prod provocation bracing excitation whet inducement goad hypo wallop fillip hotfoot impulsion agitate jangle fire challenge fuel bite prompt cite urge excite motivate hop stimulate gig motive hype provoke goose irritate nudge incite quicken startle pique catalyze rev rasp innervate eroticize adrenalize a kick in the ass a shot in the arm

9 主线

Main trope

10 中心思想

clou motive leitmotif message leitmotiv

11 主题

thematic matter subject theme burden lemma argument thrust keynote head heading leitmotif content subject matter topical score text topic motive archetype mythos donnée message ground centre vein thing idea principal staple proposition soggetto

12 特色

feature character touch shape beauty characteristic colour vein flavour fingerprint idiom idiosyncrasy color particular trait accent staple hue colouring peculiarity shtick salience physiognomy

13 动机

motive reason ground signal consideration incentive motivation inducement animus impulsion where is coming from cause spring respect motion politics persuasive incitation motivic moment object instance

14 花边

border lace lacework squirl table mould moulding tucker purfle macramé

15 图式

schematic diagrammatic figure diagram