mainspring
英 ['meɪnsprɪŋ]
美['mensprɪŋ]
- n. 主要动力；（钟表）主发条；主要原因；主要动机
实用场景例句
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- You begin to understand what actions were the mainspring of the story.
- 你开始体会到是什么样的行动在推动这个故事的发展。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Knowing any man's mainspring of motive you have as it were the key to his will.
- 你要找的正是这种“原动力 ”,它不一定总是某种高尚的或重要的东西.
期刊摘选
- The mainspring of the mechanism would remain unchanged.
- 这一机制的主要推动力依然不会改变.
期刊摘选
- The movements of the wrist make the rotor swing and this winds the mainspring automatically.
- 腕部的运动使得摆锤摇摆,自动使主发条上紧.
期刊摘选
- The mainspring makes the watch motion.
- 发条带动表走.
辞典例句
- His belief in liberty was the mainspring of his fight against slavery.
- 他对自由的信仰是他反抗奴隶制度的主要动力.
期刊摘选
- 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.
期刊摘选
- But in 1949 mainspring was released to work at full strength.
- 但1949年,主要推动力得到释放,开始全力发挥作用.
期刊摘选
- The mainspring of Paul's service is not love for men, but love for Jesus Christ.
- 保罗侍奉的根源不是爱人, 乃是爱主.
期刊摘选
- 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.
辞典例句
- Fear is the mainspring of war.
- 恐惧是战争的主要动力.
辞典例句
- 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。
柯林斯例句
- You begin to understand what actions were the mainspring of the story.
- 你开始体会到是什么样的行动在推动这个故事的发展。
柯林斯例句