名词

1. (拥有共同信仰、思想或目标的)运动，运动团体
A movement is a group of people who share the same beliefs, ideas, or aims.

2. 活动;运行;移动
Movement involves changing position or going from one place to another.

3. (军队作战或演习时的)调遣，调动
A movement is a planned change in position that an army makes during a battle or military exercise.

4. (态度、观点、政策等的)逐渐变化，趋势，动向
Movement is a gradual development or change of an attitude, opinion, or policy.

5. (某人在某一时期内的)行动，活动，动向
Your movements are everything which you do or plan to do during a period of time.

6. 乐章
A movement of a piece of classical music is one of its main sections.

1. the act of changing location from one place to another

e.g. police controlled the motion of the crowd
the movement of people from the farms to the cities
his move put him directly in my path

Synonym: motionmove

2. the act of changing the location of something

e.g. the movement of cargo onto the vessel

3. a change of position that does not entail a change of location

e.g. the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise
movement is a sign of life
an impatient move of his hand
gastrointestinal motility

Synonym: motionmovemotility

4. a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end

e.g. he supported populist campaigns
they worked in the cause of world peace
the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant
the movement to end slavery
contributed to the war effort

Synonym: campaigncausecrusadedriveeffort

5. the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)

e.g. it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement

6. a general tendency to change (as of opinion)

e.g. not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book
a broad movement of the electorate to the right

Synonym: drifttrend

7. a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata

e.g. the second movement is slow and melodic

8. a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something

Synonym: motion

9. a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals

e.g. he was a charter member of the movement
politicians have to respect a mass movement
he led the national liberation front

Synonym: social movementfront

10. an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object

e.g. the cinema relies on apparent motion
the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement

Synonym: apparent motionmotionapparent movement

11. a euphemism for defecation

e.g. he had a bowel movement

Synonym: bowel movementbm