inspire

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
---Bertrand Russell

美好的人生是由愛來鼓舞並由知識來引導的。

inspire 

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈspʌɪə/ 

VERB

[WITH OBJECT]

1Fill (someone) with the urge or ability to do or feel something, especially to do something creative:his philosophy inspired a later generation of environmentalists[WITH OBJECT AND INFINITIVE]: his passion for literature inspired him to begin writing

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1.1Create (a feeling, especially a positive one) in a person:their past record does not inspire confidence

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1.2(inspire someone with) Animate someone with (a feeling):he inspired his students with a vision of freedom

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1.3Give rise to:the film was successful enough to inspire a sequel

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2Breathe in (air); inhale:they can expand their lungs and inspire enough gas to satisfy oxygen requirements

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inspirer

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈspʌɪərə/  

NOUN

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Origin

Middle English enspire, from Old French inspirer, from Latin inspirare 'breathe or blow into' from in- 'into' + spirare 'breathe'. The word was originally used of a divine or supernatural being, in the sense 'impart a truth or idea to someone'.

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• spirit from Middle English:
  Our word spirit is based on Latin spiritus ‘breath or spirit’, from spirare ‘to breathe’—the ancient Romans believed that the human soul had been ‘breathed’ into the body—the image is the same as ‘the breath of life’. The sense ‘strong distilled alcoholic drink’ comes from the use in alchemy of spirit to mean ‘a liquid essence extracted from some substance’. People sometimes say the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak when they have good intentions but yield to temptation and fail to live up to them. The source is the New Testament, where Jesus uses the phrase after finding his disciples asleep in the Garden of Gethsemane despite telling them that they should stay awake. Spirare forms the basis of numerous English words including aspire (mid 16th century) from adspirare ‘to breath upon, seek to reach’; conspire (Late Middle English) from conspirare ‘to breath together, agree’; expire (late 16th century) ‘to breath out’; inspire (Late Middle English) ‘breath into’ from the idea that a divine or outside power has inspired you; and perspire (mid 17th century) ‘to breath through’; and transpire(Late Middle English) ‘breath across. In English spirit was shortened to sprite (Middle English) which in turn developed sprightly (late 16th century).

 inspire

• 発音記号[inspáiər]

[動](他)

1 〈人を〉奮い立たせる；〈人を〉刺激して（…する）気にさせる((to do))；〈人を〉促して（…を）する気にさせる((to ...))

His speech inspired the crowd.
彼の演説は群衆を奮い立たせた

She was inspired to write a poem.
（触発されて）詩を書きたい気分になった

You always inspire me to greater efforts.
君を見ているといつもいっそう努力する気になる.

2 ［inspire A in B/inspire B with A］〈A（感情・考えなど）をB（人）に〉生じさせる, （呼び）起こさせる, いだかせる, 吹き込む

inspire dislike in a person
人に嫌悪感をいだかせる

inspire a person with admiration
人に賞賛の念をいだかせる.

3 …に生気［活気］を与える, …を活発にさせる

The troops were inspired by the general's heroism.
軍隊は将軍の英雄的行為に元気づけられた.

4 …を霊感［神感］によって伝える；〈作品などを〉霊感によって生じさせる；〈人を〉霊感［神感］によって導く.

5 〈言葉・行いを〉（ひそかに）示唆する, そそのかす.

6 （原因となって）…を引き起こす, 生じさせる；…がヒントとなって…する.

7 〈空気・気体を〉吸う, 吸い込む(inhale).

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1 鼓舞する, 奮起させる；霊感［神感］を与える.

2 空気を吸う［吸い込む］(inhale).

［ラテン語inspirāre（in-中に＋spīrāre呼吸する＝吸い込む）. △SPIRIT, EXPIRE, RESPIRE］

in・spír・er

[名]

fascination