1N-UNCOUNT 灵感;启示;启发Inspiration is a feeling of enthusiasm you get from someone or something, which gives you new and creative ideas. 灵感;启示;启发
My inspiration comes from poets like Baudelaire and Jacques Prévert.
我的灵感源于像波德莱尔和雅克·普雷韦这样的诗人。
What better way of finding inspiration for your own garden than by visiting others.
还有什么比参观别人花园更好的获取灵感、扮靓自家花园的方法呢。
2N-SING [anN]激励(者);鼓舞(者) If you describe someone or something good as an inspiration, you mean that they make you or other people want to do or achieve something. 激励(者);鼓舞(者) [approval]
Powell's unusual journey to high office is an inspiration to millions. [+ to]
鲍威尔升任高官的不寻常历程对数以百万计的人都是一个激励。
She was a great inspiration. She was the person who impressed us with the importance of research.
3N-SING 灵感来源;原型 If something or someone is the inspiration for a particular book, work of art, or action, they are the source of the ideas in it or act as a model for it. 灵感来源;原型
India's myths and songs are the inspiration for her books. [+ for]
印度的神话与歌曲是她那些书的灵感来源。
The inspiration behind the reforms was a paper written in 1985.