Tra từ inspire - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

in‧spire/ɪnˈspaɪə $ -ˈspaɪr/ verb [TRANSITIVE]
[date : 1300-1400; Language : French; Origin : inspirer, from Latin, from spirare 'to breathe']
1. to encourage someone by making them feel confident and eager to do something:
　 ▪ We need someone who can inspire the team.
inspire somebody to do something
　 ▪ He inspired many young people to take up the sport.
inspire somebody to something
　 ▪ I hope this success will inspire you to greater efforts.
　 ▪ Inspired by the sunny weather, I decided to explore the woods.

2. to make someone have a particular feeling or react in a particular way:
　 ▪ Gandhi’s quiet dignity inspired great respect.
inspire confidence (=make people feel confident because they trust your ability)
　 ▪ His driving hardly inspires confidence.
　 ▪ The hospital’s record does not inspire confidence.

3. to give someone the idea for something, especially a story, painting, poem etc:
　 ▪ The story was inspired by a chance meeting with an old Russian duke.
　 ▪ a range of designs inspired by wild flowers

4. technical to breathe in

verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an inspired guess (=a very good guess that you make suddenly)
▪ It’s hard to believe he got that right with just an inspired guess.
an inspiring example (=someone who makes other people want to do something great or good)
▪ Jenny’s story is an inspiring example of courage in the face of adversity.
inspire confidence (=make people have confidence)
▪ Our education system should inspire public confidence.
inspire terror
▪ The main aim of suicide bombers is to inspire terror in the population.
inspire/command sb's loyalty (=make someone feel loyal to you)
▪ He inspires extraordinary loyalty among his staff.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
awe
▪ His replacement, Sanath Jayasuriya is a man of impressive dignity, who inspires devotion rather than awe from his players.
▪ The megaliths command our attention, inspiring us with awe and curiousity.
▪ One of Baldwin's weaknesses in dealing with his colleagues was that, at least until after 1931, he inspired no awe.
▪ The fair inspired awe and pride and reverence.
▪ Far from inspiring individualism, or egoism, the act should inspire awe, humility.
▪ The scenery inspires awe and apprehension and fear even on a summer day; in stormy conditions, the effect is frightening.
▪ It has always inspired awe and wonderment.
book
▪ Spennymoor impresario John Wray met Angie last summer and was inspired to book her for several tours of the North-East.
▪ The chocolate recipes are particularly inspiring, but the book also includes a bundle of recipes featuring all manner of fruit.
confidence
▪ This will do more to inspire public confidence than the prison officers' negative attitude.
▪ My boy, the first and foremost work of a doctor is to inspire confidence in his being one.
▪ A test ban that could not inspire confidence would undermine stability and might even provoke a new arms race.
▪ Her strength was her ability to elicit and inspire confidences rather than fear in the people she befriended.
▪ Lukic hardly inspires confidence either in such situations.
▪ Yet he has a train of attendants on the battlefield which should inspire anyone with confidence.
▪ What impressed most was how useable this near 30-year-old car feels, and how quickly it inspires confidence.
▪ In short, he inspires confidence.
film
▪ Its history has inspired several films.
idea
▪ This, as we shall see, is not quite true: some mystics were inspired by scholastic ideas.
▪ Most had escaped but some were freed by owners newly inspired by the idea of liberty.
▪ Secondly much of the research on class has been inspired by ideas and questions raised by Marx.
▪ Kirk Fordice, it is a divinely inspired idea to wean families off welfare.
▪ This, furthermore, is the inspiring idea that inhabits much Far Eastern Buddhist art.
▪ Mysteriously, the Halloween pumpkin had been an inspired idea of his.
story
▪ Many enduring ballets have been inspired by stories from world literature.
▪ I hope McCarthy will discover them, and tell your readers about them and their students.They make a better and inspiring story.
▪ Jaguar was inspired by stories that General Motors was preparing to bid.
student
▪ His comments inspired the students, but placed him on the list of suspicious intellectuals.
▪ It has served to illuminate and inspire many thousands of students, teachers and academics throughout the world.
work
▪ As a student Keith was particularly inspired by Gurdon's work.
▪ His political clumsiness and know-it-all manner raise questions about his ability to inspire the country and work with Congress.
VERB
help
▪ Greenpeace's daring and media-grasp have helped inspire a new generation of direct-activists.
▪ Because having helped to inspire the fear of the devil, he offers redemption.
seem
▪ McQueen seems to inspire Hoffman to underplay, too.
▪ Her brightening of mood seems largely inspired by the light bulb she has been standing next to.
▪ Kernaghan was superb at the back and seemed to inspire those around him.
▪ The Compagnie du Saint Sacrement and the Rosicrucians seem to have been inspired by political as well as spiritual goals.
▪ No, Minter was motivated more by the unreasoning malice which individual achievement seemed often to inspire in others.
▪ Familiar faith formulae seem not to inspire.
▪ His pluralist view of the nature of the State seems inspired by Maitland.
▪ The poet and the painter have never met before, but their pairing seems inspired.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
inspired guess/choice etc
▪ As it happens, he made an inspired choice.
▪ But my father's was an inspired guess.
▪ If he can be persuaded to keep religion out of politics, he could prove an inspired choice.
▪ In Whitham's case it was different and he certainly was what could be termed an inspired choice by the Lightweight club.
▪ It could prove an inspired choice for New Zealand.
politically/religiously etc inspired
▪ Apart from politically inspired race riots in the early 1960s, rarely did Black people behave badly towards us.
▪ Bykov denies wrong doing and says the forthcoming trial is politically inspired.
▪ Thirdly, there was now a legal precedent upon which to mount attacks on politically inspired censorship.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Mrs. Pianto was the kind of woman who inspired kindness.
▪ The country needs a leader who can inspire its citizens.
▪ The lecture today really inspired me to read more poetry.
▪ The movie was inspired by real events.
▪ When I actually visited the university, it inspired me and made me want to go there.