And I tend to sit down and improvise. Within those improvisations certain motives and ideas will come about that I like."
VOA: special.2010.07.19
Whatever you're reading, it's always worth thinking about and considering what the motives might be for such extraordinary literary risk taking.
不管是读什么,想想作者,为什么会不惜冒这么大的险,总是有意义的。
One of the motives for his selection of this genre, the pastoral genre, is the tradition -and it's a tradition that goes all the way back to Theocritus and Virgil -that associates shepherds with poets.
他选择这个流派的动力之一,就是田园诗是一种传统,是一种可以追溯到忒俄克里托斯和维吉尔时代的传统,它把牧羊人和诗人紧密相连。
We cannot guess his motives. We just have to deal with the reality: that a North Korea that is proliferating weapons and missiles is a serious threat and danger to the world."
VOA: standard.2009.06.14
So why not take president Obama at his words, and simply impute the motives that he claims?
所以为何不相信奥巴马的言论,相信事实就如他所说的一样呢?
The brothers desire to hear justice praised for itself alone, and that seems to be expressive of their own freedom from mercenary motives and incentives.
这对兄弟档,想听到正义自我礼赞,这似乎也显露出,他们不受金钱目的,及奖励约束的自由。
With I should say the possible exception of the economists who often will believe that economic motives and transactions provide the key to all possible human behaviors.
知识分支当中,可能的例外是经济学家,他们常认为,是经济动机与交易,决定了所有可能的人类行为。
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