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词汇 inspiration
释义 inspiration
noun
uk /ˌɪn.spɪˈreɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌɪn.spəˈreɪ.ʃən/

inspirationnoun (IDEAS)


B2[ C or U ]
someone or something that gives you ideas for doing something: 给人以灵感的人(或物)
inspiration forThe golden autumn light provided the inspiration for the painting.秋天金色的阳光给这幅画的创作带来了灵感。
divine inspirationHe went to church, perhaps seeking divine inspiration.他去做礼拜,也许为的是寻找神的启示。
C2[ C ]
a sudden good idea: 灵感;突然想出的好主意
have an inspirationHe had an inspiration - why not apply for some government money?他突然想到一个好主意——为什么不去申请一些政府资金呢?
The idea came to her in a flash of inspiration.
What was your inspiration for the new designs?
The artist took his inspiration from African art.
He drew much inspiration from art produced by children and by primitive cultures.
In the 1990s he turned to Brazilian music for inspiration.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Inspiration and inspiring
anti-creative
apostolic
blue-sky
breathe (new) life into sthidiom
creative
divergent
divergently
engage
enthral
entrance
grip
incentivize
kindle
Promethean
re-engage
show
show (someone) the wayidiom
stimulating
visionary

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Ideas, concepts and theories

inspirationnoun (PERSON YOU ADMIRE)


C2[ S ]
someone that people admire and want to be like: 鼓舞人心的人
an inspiration toShe has been an inspiration to us all.我们所有人都从她身上得到了鼓舞。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Affecting and influencing
across-the-board
affect
applicability
be/fall under someone's influence/spellidiom
bear on something
carry
colour
ear
inroad
instrumental
instrumentality
instrumentally
interinfluence
pen
rail
spill
spill over
sportswashing
start (something) off
talismanic

inspirationnoun (BREATHING IN)


[ U or C ] medical, biology specialized
the act of breathing in, or a single breath in:
Bronchi normally expand and lengthen during inspiration and shorten during expiration.
The seal can be heard snorting and gurgling with each inspiration.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Animal physiology: breathing & stopping breathing
aerobic
asphyxia
asphyxiation
aspirate
breathable
breathe (something) in
choke
draw breathphrase
expire
hyperventilation
non-breathing
out of breath
pant
puff
puffed
puffed out
puffer
stifle
strangulation
suffocate

inspiration | American Dictionary


inspiration
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˌɪn·spə·ˈreɪ·ʃən/
someone or something that gives you ideas for doing something:
[ Cusually sing ]She has been an inspiration to us all (= a good example for all).
An inspiration is also a sudden good idea:
[ + to infinitive ]She had the inspiration to turn the play into a musical.

Examples of inspiration


inspiration
Osler: inspirations from a great physician.
A problem of this size cannot be tackled by last-moment inspirations or piecemeal palliatives.
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In making such an appeal he does violence to one of the noblest passions and one of the most profound inspirations of the human race.
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Like all its inspirations, the concept can readily be improved by the application of common sense and subsidiarity.
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The key project is to help the youngsters who currently have few inspirations, little aspiration and not enough hope.
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One of the main inspirations for me in my party is the concept of one nation.
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Let us do so by reflecting our greatest human inspirations, otherwise we will seem like decision-makers who have no grasp of the reality of matters.
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In this case we see economic obscurantism going hand-in-hand with that attitude of hostility to the foreigner which is one of the main inspirations of the whole tariff movement.
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Even the inspiration behind the art-historical origins of the decoration was of interest to him.
The song is a combination of several inspirations.
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Influences and inspirations traceable to these earlier painters can be seen in work by many contemporary artists.
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His adherence to his poetic creed rested on real inspirations.
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Naturally he recorded his inspirations and performed them for his audience, since if he did not, he could not play them again.
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He composed much poetry here and had many inspirations a few of them from opium overdose.
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The decoration, although of various inspirations, was mainly of plant motifs, but also had a profusion of medallions, heraldic devices and animal figures, among others.
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Collocations withinspiration


inspiration

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artistic inspiration
Watching the sunset at an open caf on the palm-lined seashore can be an infinite source of artistic inspirations and creativity.
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divine inspiration
The enthusiasts, who claimed to prophesy and to have direct divineinspiration, were increasingly seen in the seventeenth century as melancholies.
flash of inspiration
That was a blinding flashofinspiration.
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