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noun mjuːzmjuz 1(in Greek and Roman mythology) each of nine goddesses, the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, who preside over the arts and sciences. 缪斯（希腊和罗马神话中掌管文艺和科学的九位女神之一，九女神均为宙斯和尼莫茜尼之女） The Muses are generally listed as Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Euterpe (flute playing and lyric poetry), Terpsichore (choral dancing and song), Erato (lyre playing and lyric poetry), Melpomene (tragedy), Thalia (comedy and light verse), Polyhymnia (hymns, and later mime), and Urania (astronomy) Example sentencesExamples - Many elegists question whether they have the strength to accomplish their purpose, often calling for help from the muses or from a sympathetically grief-stricken nature.
- The word ‘mnemonic’ comes from Mnemosyne, the Greek goddess of memory, and mother of the nine Muses.
- My personal favorite was a four-foot tall statue of Terpsichore, the Greek muse of dancing who bore the Sirens.
- She alone among the muses inspires scientific endeavours.
- In ancient Greek mythology, Muses were goddesses of science and art who inspired creative endeavors.
Synonyms inspiration, creative influence, stimulus, stimulation 2A person or personified force who is the source of inspiration for a creative artist. （给艺术家以创作灵感的）女神；拟人化为女性的力量；灵感之源 the landscape was Gorky's primary muse Example sentencesExamples - She was, now in the eyes of people close to him, his muse.
- Yes, if it's about James Joyce and his muse, the beautiful Nora Barnacle.
- Here those with a literary calling gathered, together with those who required social stimulation to fire their muse.
- This sonnet, however, is also a complex poem about the relationship between the poet, her muse, and her reader.
- Male artists have often seen women as not only sexual objects but simultaneously as their inspirations and muses.
- I was suffering without them, my artists, my muses.
- Her beauty inspires him and he takes her to be a muse, a reason and an inspiration to choose a life of art and beauty rather than religious devotion.
- The artist's restless muse and critical intellect enable a confrontation with, and the effort to amend, the society's limiting traditions.
- May Gaskell was the adored last muse of the artist Edward Burne-Jones.
- The figure and face of the woman have been the inspirational muse for artists over the centuries.
- Within that image he unified three unmanageable forces in his life - nature, the muse, and his mother.
- Harriet Smithson may have been the muse who inspired Berlioz's most celebrated symphony but she herself dies in obscurity and misery.
- According to Western tradition, poetry originates from the poet's passionate but necessarily unfulfilled longing for his muse.
- It would mean that women would have a central part in the culture, as muses and inspirers certainly, but also as honourable beings in their own right.
- Almost 50 years after being immortalised by the poet Philip Larkin in a famous anthology, the muse who inspired him is to speak on his legacy.
- Loulou de la Falaise was the archetypal muse, the inspiration for Yves Saint Laurent in the Seventies.
- It is difficult to make the transition from a muse to an artist.
- Switching gender roles may allow the muse / artist relationship to flourish as women become more prominent in the arts and sciences.
- Stephen King used to call his muses or inspirations, ‘The Boys in the Basement.’
- The poet's traditional invocation of the muse calls her into being, to sing to him.
Synonyms inspiration, creative influence, stimulus, stimulation
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin musa, from Greek mousa. People who muse look thoughtful and reflective, and the word probably originally referred to facial expression, as it is related to muzzle (Late Middle English) (see also amuse). It has no connection with the Muses of classical mythology, the nine goddesses regarded as inspiring learning and the arts. The Greek word for a Muse, mousa, is also the source of music (Middle English) and museum (early 17th century). An institute called the Museum was established at Alexandria in about 280 bc by Ptolemy I of Egypt, and became the most renowned of the museums in the ancient world. The word museum means ‘seat of the Muses, place dedicated to the Muses’. Old astronomers imagined the universe to consist of transparent hollow globes that revolved round the earth carrying the heavenly bodies and making a harmonious sound known as the music of the spheres. Many other things have been regarded as making music, such as birds, running brooks, and packs of hounds—since the 1930s a man and woman making love have been said to make beautiful music together.
Rhymesabuse, accuse, adieux, amuse, bemuse, billets-doux, blues, booze, bruise, choose, Clews, confuse, contuse, cruise, cruse, Cruz, diffuse, do's, Druze, effuse, enthuse, excuse, fuse (US fuze), Hughes, incuse, interfuse, lose, Mahfouz, mews, misuse, news, ooze, Ouse, perfuse, peruse, rhythm-and-blues, ruse, schmooze, snooze, suffuse, Toulouse, transfuse, trews, use, Vaduz, Veracruz, who's, whose, youse verb mjuːzmjuz [no object]1Be absorbed in thought. 沉思，默想，冥想 he was musing on the problems he faced 他正在默想所面临的问题。 Example sentencesExamples - Actually, it's not a bad article, and chimes in with something I was musing over yesterday: just why are Europhiles so bad at arguing their case?
- Home from NYC, musing about that and an India that has changed, I had my once-in-several-months run-in with a journalist I know.
- I was musing about how it could be possible for kids so young to sing about love and loss when they truly have never had their heart broken.
- I had a place lined up, I thought it over, I mused, I pondered, I decided to go with it.
- Opportunities do not wait for those who muse and pause for deliberation.
- I thought I'd work through the lyrics, musing as I go.
- As I left the office today, I was musing on how much I laughed today.
- On my drive back and forth to Providence yesterday I was musing about worship, prompted by sitting in on a traditional worship set for the first time in a long while.
- Chewing happily, I wander away, musing on the character of a city that seems to have got the melting-pot thing off pat.
- She mused for a moment, thought about what was to become of her.
- Last term, musing about the usefulness of gun control, I obviously forgot the whole point of it: reducing crimes involving guns.
- I've already entered the Half Marathon and am musing over my options: I'm not fit enough to complete it comfortably but I reckon I could do it very uncomfortably.
- Still musing about his travels, he turned to me, ‘The most memorable tour that I ever took was to explore the kasbahs of southern Morocco’.
- I got to musing as to how those few years I spent deliberately celibate were the happiest of my adult life.
- While I mused, I had mechanically chewed all my food because I had barely tasted it.
- She spent a fair bit of time in the tub, musing and contemplating over her current situation and well-being.
- Last night somewhere between Fulham Broadway and Westminster I was musing upon the fact that there was a point when I didn't even go on trains, let alone take three-change journeys.
- Activists left Bournemouth musing that perhaps there was something rather satisfying in becoming, again in Harold Wilson's words, the ‘natural party of government’.
- Both young and old came to see the school and admire the children's artwork, as well as musing over the many photos of pupils over the decade.
- More recently I've found myself in bed at night (always a good place to be at night, if you think about it) musing over what I'd write in my blog, if I were writing it, re the day that's just gone.
Synonyms ponder, consider, think over/about, mull over, reflect on, contemplate, deliberate, turn over in one's mind, chew over, weigh up, meditate on, ruminate over/on, brood on, give some thought to, cogitate on, evaluate, examine, study, review think, debate with oneself, be lost in contemplation/thought, be in a brown study, daydream, be in a reverie archaic pore on rare cerebrate - 1.1 Say to oneself in a thoughtful manner.
若有所思地自语 ‘I think I've seen him somewhere before,’ mused Rachel “我想我曾在某个地方见过他，"雷切尔若有所思地自语道。 Example sentencesExamples - ‘A loss of words,’ as one character muses, ‘meant that nothing that comes to mind seems very interesting to say as a next thing to what has just been said.’
- ‘It probably had a high tower with one window,’ I mused, thinking of Rachel.
- ‘Now,’ muses an underground rocker who has begun accepting sponsorships, ‘the only qualm I have is I usually don't like the stuff I get.’
- ‘Well, that's what love does to you,’ mused Ava.
- ‘And at least she's not dead,’ Sarah mused thoughtfully.
- ‘This barrier would hopefully break over time,’ he mused thoughtfully to himself.
- As one character muses toward the novel's end: ‘We always felt safe here.’
- ‘Recuperated money can go toward bonuses for employees,’ Gravel muses.
- ‘Unfortunately,’ Jack mused wryly to himself, ‘much of what they'd " learned " had come from television.’
- ‘They do make my feet seem smaller,’ she mused as she stretched her legs out for examination.
- ‘Maybe I'm… just not interested… at all,’ he mused silently.
- ‘Dave is one of these guys who finds a way to survive and exist despite a past filled with horrific events,’ the actor muses.
- ‘Though,’ she mused, ‘it would be fun to take a step at a time and plant seeds of revenge for Ivan when he would least expect it.’
- ‘Daisy's notion,’ Henry muses, ‘that people can't live without stories, is simply not true.’
- "Maybe you should give one to my sister, " Rachel mused aloud.
- "I think I know where I can find him, " Tanya mused under her breath.
- Capon muses, ‘He must have been out of jail (by then) because he came to the gallery.’
- 1.2muse on Gaze thoughtfully at.
若有所思地凝视 he sat on the edge of the bank, legs dangling, eyes musing on the water Example sentencesExamples - With binoculars and a picnic lunch, one can spend endless hours here, musing on the leviathans that approach almost to the base of the cliffs.
noun mjuːzmjuz An instance or period of reflection. 〈旧〉深思，反思；反思期 Example sentencesExamples - I call it quits for the day, having earned the rituals&em.the long bath, the shave, the afternoon muse.
- It's not only his pet muse these days, but the very definition of his work.
- In the same way that I turned in my external muse a few weeks ago, it's time for me to stop beating myself up over the way I broke his heart.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French muser 'meditate, waste time', perhaps from medieval Latin musum 'muzzle'. nounmjuzmyo͞oz 1(in Greek and Roman mythology) each of nine goddesses, the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, who preside over the arts and sciences. 缪斯（希腊和罗马神话中掌管文艺和科学的九位女神之一，九女神均为宙斯和尼莫茜尼之女） The Muses are generally listed as Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Euterpe (flute playing and lyric poetry), Terpsichore (choral dancing and song), Erato (lyre playing and lyric poetry), Melpomene (tragedy), Thalia (comedy and light verse), Polyhymnia (hymns, and later mime), and Urania (astronomy) Example sentencesExamples - Many elegists question whether they have the strength to accomplish their purpose, often calling for help from the muses or from a sympathetically grief-stricken nature.
- The word ‘mnemonic’ comes from Mnemosyne, the Greek goddess of memory, and mother of the nine Muses.
- In ancient Greek mythology, Muses were goddesses of science and art who inspired creative endeavors.
- She alone among the muses inspires scientific endeavours.
- My personal favorite was a four-foot tall statue of Terpsichore, the Greek muse of dancing who bore the Sirens.
Synonyms inspiration, creative influence, stimulus, stimulation 2A person or personified force who is the source of inspiration for a creative artist. （给艺术家以创作灵感的）女神；拟人化为女性的力量；灵感之源 the landscape was Gorky's primary muse Example sentencesExamples - I was suffering without them, my artists, my muses.
- She was, now in the eyes of people close to him, his muse.
- Her beauty inspires him and he takes her to be a muse, a reason and an inspiration to choose a life of art and beauty rather than religious devotion.
- Harriet Smithson may have been the muse who inspired Berlioz's most celebrated symphony but she herself dies in obscurity and misery.
- This sonnet, however, is also a complex poem about the relationship between the poet, her muse, and her reader.
- The artist's restless muse and critical intellect enable a confrontation with, and the effort to amend, the society's limiting traditions.
- Switching gender roles may allow the muse / artist relationship to flourish as women become more prominent in the arts and sciences.
- Almost 50 years after being immortalised by the poet Philip Larkin in a famous anthology, the muse who inspired him is to speak on his legacy.
- Within that image he unified three unmanageable forces in his life - nature, the muse, and his mother.
- According to Western tradition, poetry originates from the poet's passionate but necessarily unfulfilled longing for his muse.
- Here those with a literary calling gathered, together with those who required social stimulation to fire their muse.
- Male artists have often seen women as not only sexual objects but simultaneously as their inspirations and muses.
- The poet's traditional invocation of the muse calls her into being, to sing to him.
- Stephen King used to call his muses or inspirations, ‘The Boys in the Basement.’
- Loulou de la Falaise was the archetypal muse, the inspiration for Yves Saint Laurent in the Seventies.
- It is difficult to make the transition from a muse to an artist.
- The figure and face of the woman have been the inspirational muse for artists over the centuries.
- Yes, if it's about James Joyce and his muse, the beautiful Nora Barnacle.
- It would mean that women would have a central part in the culture, as muses and inspirers certainly, but also as honourable beings in their own right.
- May Gaskell was the adored last muse of the artist Edward Burne-Jones.
Synonyms inspiration, creative influence, stimulus, stimulation
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin musa, from Greek mousa. verbmjuzmyo͞oz [no object]1Be absorbed in thought. 沉思，默想，冥想 he was musing on the problems he faced 他正在默想所面临的问题。 Example sentencesExamples - While I mused, I had mechanically chewed all my food because I had barely tasted it.
- Opportunities do not wait for those who muse and pause for deliberation.
- More recently I've found myself in bed at night (always a good place to be at night, if you think about it) musing over what I'd write in my blog, if I were writing it, re the day that's just gone.
- I've already entered the Half Marathon and am musing over my options: I'm not fit enough to complete it comfortably but I reckon I could do it very uncomfortably.
- Home from NYC, musing about that and an India that has changed, I had my once-in-several-months run-in with a journalist I know.
- She spent a fair bit of time in the tub, musing and contemplating over her current situation and well-being.
- Chewing happily, I wander away, musing on the character of a city that seems to have got the melting-pot thing off pat.
- Last term, musing about the usefulness of gun control, I obviously forgot the whole point of it: reducing crimes involving guns.
- I got to musing as to how those few years I spent deliberately celibate were the happiest of my adult life.
- Activists left Bournemouth musing that perhaps there was something rather satisfying in becoming, again in Harold Wilson's words, the ‘natural party of government’.
- Still musing about his travels, he turned to me, ‘The most memorable tour that I ever took was to explore the kasbahs of southern Morocco’.
- I was musing about how it could be possible for kids so young to sing about love and loss when they truly have never had their heart broken.
- As I left the office today, I was musing on how much I laughed today.
- She mused for a moment, thought about what was to become of her.
- I thought I'd work through the lyrics, musing as I go.
- Both young and old came to see the school and admire the children's artwork, as well as musing over the many photos of pupils over the decade.
- Last night somewhere between Fulham Broadway and Westminster I was musing upon the fact that there was a point when I didn't even go on trains, let alone take three-change journeys.
- On my drive back and forth to Providence yesterday I was musing about worship, prompted by sitting in on a traditional worship set for the first time in a long while.
- Actually, it's not a bad article, and chimes in with something I was musing over yesterday: just why are Europhiles so bad at arguing their case?
- I had a place lined up, I thought it over, I mused, I pondered, I decided to go with it.
Synonyms ponder, consider, think about, think over, mull over, reflect on, contemplate, deliberate, turn over in one's mind, chew over, weigh up, meditate on, ruminate on, ruminate over, brood on, give some thought to, cogitate on, evaluate, examine, study, review - 1.1 Say to oneself in a thoughtful manner.
若有所思地自语 “I think I've seen him somewhere before,” mused Rachel “我想我曾在某个地方见过他，"雷切尔若有所思地自语道。 Example sentencesExamples - ‘And at least she's not dead,’ Sarah mused thoughtfully.
- ‘Daisy's notion,’ Henry muses, ‘that people can't live without stories, is simply not true.’
- ‘This barrier would hopefully break over time,’ he mused thoughtfully to himself.
- "Maybe you should give one to my sister, " Rachel mused aloud.
- ‘Recuperated money can go toward bonuses for employees,’ Gravel muses.
- ‘Dave is one of these guys who finds a way to survive and exist despite a past filled with horrific events,’ the actor muses.
- ‘It probably had a high tower with one window,’ I mused, thinking of Rachel.
- ‘Now,’ muses an underground rocker who has begun accepting sponsorships, ‘the only qualm I have is I usually don't like the stuff I get.’
- ‘They do make my feet seem smaller,’ she mused as she stretched her legs out for examination.
- ‘A loss of words,’ as one character muses, ‘meant that nothing that comes to mind seems very interesting to say as a next thing to what has just been said.’
- "I think I know where I can find him, " Tanya mused under her breath.
- ‘Unfortunately,’ Jack mused wryly to himself, ‘much of what they'd " learned " had come from television.’
- ‘Maybe I'm… just not interested… at all,’ he mused silently.
- Capon muses, ‘He must have been out of jail (by then) because he came to the gallery.’
- As one character muses toward the novel's end: ‘We always felt safe here.’
- ‘Well, that's what love does to you,’ mused Ava.
- ‘Though,’ she mused, ‘it would be fun to take a step at a time and plant seeds of revenge for Ivan when he would least expect it.’
- 1.2muse on Gaze thoughtfully at.
若有所思地凝视 Example sentencesExamples - With binoculars and a picnic lunch, one can spend endless hours here, musing on the leviathans that approach almost to the base of the cliffs.
nounmjuzmyo͞oz An instance or period of reflection. 〈旧〉深思，反思；反思期 Example sentencesExamples - It's not only his pet muse these days, but the very definition of his work.
- In the same way that I turned in my external muse a few weeks ago, it's time for me to stop beating myself up over the way I broke his heart.
- I call it quits for the day, having earned the rituals&em.the long bath, the shave, the afternoon muse.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French muser ‘meditate, waste time’, perhaps from medieval Latin musum ‘muzzle’. |