inspire
动词 v.
英 /ɪnˈspaɪə(ɹ)/
美 /ɪnˈspaɪɹ/|/ɪnˈspɑeə(ɹ)/
英文释义
动词 v.
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To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.
— Dawning day new comfort hath inspired.
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To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens or exalts; to communicate inspiration to.
— Elders should inspire children with sentiments of virtue.
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To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.
— By means of those sulfurous coal smokes the lungs are as it were stifled and extremely oppressed, whereby they are forced to inspire and expire the air with difficulty.
- To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
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To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
— Deſcend ye nine! deſcend and ſing; / The breathing inſtruments inſpire, / VVake into voice each ſilent ſtring, / And ſvveep the ſounding lyre!
- To spread rumour indirectly.
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Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys-der.?
Latin spīrō
Latin īnspīrōbor.
Old French espirer
Old French enspirerbor.
Middle English enspiren
English inspire
From Middle English inspiren, enspiren, from Old French inspirer, variant of espirer, from Latin īnspīrāre (“inspire”), itself a loan-translation of Biblical Ancient Greek πνέω (pnéō, “breathe”), from in + spīrō (“breathe”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys- (“to blow, breathe”). Displaced native Old English onbryrdan (literally “to prick in”).
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys-der.?
Latin spīrō
Latin īnspīrōbor.
Old French espirer
Old French enspirerbor.
Middle English enspiren
English inspire
From Middle English inspiren, enspiren, from Old French inspirer, variant of espirer, from Latin īnspīrāre (“inspire”), itself a loan-translation of Biblical Ancient Greek πνέω (pnéō, “breathe”), from in + spīrō (“breathe”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys- (“to blow, breathe”). Displaced native Old English onbryrdan (literally “to prick in”).
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