1.a change of position that does not entail a change of location;
the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise
2.a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
3.the act of changing location from one place to another;
police controlled the motion of the crowd
4.a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals;
he was a charter member of the movement
5.a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata;
the second movement is slow and melodic
6.a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end;
he supported populist campaigns
7.an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object;
the cinema relies on apparent motion
8.a euphemism for defecation;
he had a bowel movement
9.a general tendency to change (as of opinion);
not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book
10. the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock);
it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement
11. the act of changing the location of something;
the movement of cargo onto the vessel
英漢雙解 C 1. 移動(dòng),運(yùn)動(dòng),活動(dòng) moving or being moved; action; activity C 2. 動(dòng)作,姿勢 a particular act of changing position or place C 3. 調(diào)動(dòng),調(diào)遣 act of changing position, especially as a military manoeuvre C 4. 動(dòng)向,趨向,傾向 a general feeling, way of thinking, acting, etc. not directed by any particular person or group, towards sth new, or away from sth that exists; trend of society C 5.