This was the basic motivation for that choice.

这是他那个选择的基本动机。

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To achieve cognitive economy is the basic motivation for idiomatic meanings.

实现认知省力是习语义产生的根本动因。

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Such thing like interest seems to be the basic motivation that drives people to make the decision on doing things.

兴趣这种东西，似乎是驱使人们下定决心去做某些事的基本动能。

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But the basic motivation for the behavior is self-interest.

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First, it allows us to establish education as a basic human right, so that anyone with the motivation and the ability would have the opportunity to get the skills that they need to make a better life for themselves, their families and their communities.

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The motivation for human behavior may be complicated, but Devastations' members reduce it to a basic and universal truth: If it feels good, it's hard to resist.

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