motif

n.

（文艺作品等的）主题；（音乐的）乐旨，动机；基本图案；

复数：motifs

1. This simple motif runs throughout the entire score.
   整个乐章自始至终都贯穿着这样一个简单的主题。
2. Love is an eternal motif in art and literature.
   爱情是文学艺术中的永恒主题。
3. The motif of the picture is about peace.
   这幅画的主题是和平。
4. This motif is concealed for a month or two.
   他这个念头在头两个月还潜而不露。
5. The jacket has a rose motif on the collar.
   这件夹克衫领子上有一朵玫瑰花的图案。

MEME SUITE: tools for motif discovery and searching
The CARD domain: a new apoptotic signalling motif.
A signature motif in transcriptional co-activators mediates binding to nuclear receptors.
A new regulatory motif in cell-cycle control causing specific inhibition of cyclin D/CDK4.
A new class of membrane-bound chemokine with a CX3C motif
doi:10.1093/nar/gkp335 MEME SUITE: tools for motif discovery and searching
An apoptosis-inhibiting baculovirus gene with a zinc finger-like motif.
A new DNA binding and dimerization motif in immunoglobulin enhancer binding, daughterless, MyoD , and myc proteins
A Novel Protein That Interacts with the Death Domain of Fas/APO1 Contains a Sequence Motif Related to the Death Domain
A gene from the human sex-determining region encodes a protein with homology to a conserved DNA-binding motif