inspirit

vt. 激励, 使振奋

词形变化

inspirited inspiriting inspirits 三单 inspirits inspiriting 现在分词 inspirited 过去式 inspirited 过去分词

别名

enspirit

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To strengthen or hearten; give impetus or vigour.

    And nothing could be better imagin’d than the reason, why the wounded Princes left their Tents; they were impatient to behold the Battel, anxious for its Success, and desirous to inspirit the Soldiers by their Presence.

    The "festival" […] this year has concerned itself largely with opera and dance, most of its pieces (perhaps in order to inspirit our AIDS-demoralized sexuality) inspired by the Don Juan motif.

  2. 2.

    To fill or imbue with spirit.

    Human beings, even fully mature adults, are neither detached rationalities nor mere collections of responses to environmental stimuli. They are inspirited, thinking bodies, and it is their bodies that launch the development of selves through a multitude of complex encounters.

词汇关系

词源

From Middle English inspiriten, equivalent to in- + spirit.

来源:wiktionary