One way to hold motivated is to picture a hand at your back. Something is pushing, and you are moving because of it. The word does not tell you what the push is — a goal, an interest, money, a grudge — only that a push is there and that it is working. When the hand is at a person's back, we say the person is motivated. When the hand is behind an action instead, English names the hand first: politically motivated, financially motivated.
motivated 可以想成背後有一隻手在推你。有東西在推，而你真的動了。這個字本身不說那股力量是什麼——可能是目標、興趣、錢，或一口氣——只說「有推力，而且推動了」。當那隻手推在人的背上，我們說這個人 motivated。當那隻手推的是一件事，英文會先把手的名字說出來：politically motivated、financially motivated。
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
motivatedadj
- 1
Enthusiastic, especially about striving toward a goal.
- We're looking for a highly motivated individual who will fit into our fast-paced corporate culture.
- It seems reasonable to assume that academically able students are more motivated toward academic activities than those less able, and that students from higher socioeconomic levels are more motivated toward school than those from lower socioeconomic levels.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。