| 词组 | inspire |
| 释义 | inspire When inspire is used with a preposition, it generally is used with by and the verb form is usually the past participle: • He refused to admit to himself that he was inspired by passion. He despised passion —Liam O'Flaherty, The Informer, 1925 • ... inspired by the most genuine passion for the rights and liberties of mankind —Virginia Woolf, The Second Common Reader, 1932 • ... inspired by a subconscious desire to compensate for these humiliations —George F. Kennan, New Yorker, 1 May 1971 Inspire is also used quite frequently with in, to, or with; to and with occur more often than in. The verb may take any of its forms. • The disgust he had inspired in me before, when gloating over anticipated tortures —W. H. Hudson, Green Mansions, 1904 • The bribe had inspired nothing but fright in the old man —Irving Wallace, The Plot, 1967 • The crammed, violent life of Catfish Row inspired George Gershwin to something beyond show music —Time, 23 Mar. 1953 • ... inspiring Americans to visit Europe —Horace Sutton, Saturday Rev., 1 Jan. 1972 • The old rooms in the candlelight inspired him with a tenderness —Vita Sackville-West, The Edwardi-ans, 1930 • ... observation of warlike crowds inspired me with thoughts having much affinity with those of psychoanalysts —Bertrand Russell, London Calling, 24 Mar. 1955 Occasionally, inspire may also be used with the prepositions among, from, into, through, or toward: • ... the political mobsters in the play appeared to inspire more fascination than hate among Moscow playgoers —Tom Whitney, Wall Street Jour., 25 Mar. 1954 • Great artists know or believe that they are inspired from something outside themselves —S. Alexander, Beauty and Other Forms of Value, 1933 • ... Dante's earnestness of purpose ... inspires life into the dry bones of his formal scholasticism — Charles Eliot Norton, in World's Best Literature, 1896 • ... a Boston architect who had studied in France, inspired a large following through his brilliant creations —American Guide Series: Michigan, 1941 • The famed Armory Show of 1913 inspired her toward abstract painting —The Americana Annual 1953 |
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