actuate meaning in English
vt.
开动(机械等)；驱使，激励(人等)。 be actuated by (love) 为(爱情)所驱使。
Examples
- The murderer was actuated by revenge .
这个杀人犯被报复心驱使着。 - He was void of any of these feelings which actuate men to do good .
他缺乏任何促使人们行善的那种情绪。 - After actuating a timing mechanism, undoubtedly he reached up and placed the bomb there .
打开了定时装置以后，他无疑地举起手来把炸弹放到了那里。 - All of the motives which have actuated all our earthly existence will have become more fleeting than shadows of a dream .
一切尘寰中生存竞争的动机都变得比梦幻还要恍惚。 - In the present instance she was far more actuated by impulses, in all she had said, than by calculation .
在今天这个场合下，她说的那些话，决非出于心计，而是出于自己的真情。