Definition of aspire in English:

aspire

verb əˈspʌɪəəˈspaɪ(ə)r

[no object]

1Direct one's hopes or ambitions towards achieving something.
渴望，有志于
we never thought that we might aspire to those heights
我们从来没有想到自己会渴望达到那些高度。
with infinitive other people will aspire to be like you
别的人会渴望自己能像你一样。
Example sentencesExamples
- Certainly from my point of view, I admire their success and aspire to be part of an organisation that could achieve that as well.
- After all, who doesn't want their precious daughter to aspire to such heights?
- A street kid who was once sent to a reformatory, he aspired to be a boxer, enlisted in the navy, and did jail time for a minor robbery.
- For dancers aspiring to join the troupe, the audition, which is videotaped, generally consists of two parts: dance class and improvisation.
- What's more, many blogs aspire to be much more than online diaries.
- The two loved movies and aspired to be filmmakers.
- You can always aspire to the mediocre and attain less, or you can aspire to the great and hope that you get somewhere close.
- The article is inspiring and it is to be hoped that we all aspire to live our lives in this way.
- Most directors aspire to filmmaking; the money is better and cinema tends to place directors on a pedestal.
- It is the story of four African American girls who aspire to be recording artists.
- For those families who aspired to a nice car, a comfortable house, and private schools for their children, the new government promised economic and political tranquility.
- It stirs us to strive for the goal, achieve the target and aspire to something beyond our comfort zone.
- I was talking about people who aspire to have their ideas influence the public debate.
- They are generally educated abroad but aspire to return home, not settle there permanently.
- What counts most is what each individual can aspire to achieve with technology and the results they deliver.
- We need to ask ourselves, what kind of success do we aspire to achieve and at what cost?
- You must mark out your territory as an artist, so that others learn to envy you and aspire to what you are doing.
- We cannot eliminate all risk, and we should not aspire to do so.
- These days artists aspire to come up with an idea for something new to put on an arts grant application.
- If you want to aspire to any sort of academic achievement you need to be able to express yourself clearly.
Synonyms
desire (to), aim for/to, hope for/to, long for/to, yearn for/to, hanker after/for/to, set one's heart on, wish for/to, want (to), expect (to), have the objective of, dream of, hunger for/to, seek (to), pursue, have as one's goal/aim, set one's sights on
be ambitious
literary thirst for/after
archaic be desirous of
would-be, intending, aspirant, hopeful, optimistic, budding, wishful
potential, possible, prospective, likely, future
ambitious, eager, keen, striving, determined, enterprising, pioneering, progressive, motivated, driven, enthusiastic, energetic, zealous, committed, go-ahead, go-getting, purposeful
informal wannabe, on the make
archaic expectant
2literary Rise high; tower.
〈诗/文〉升高；高耸
above the domes of loftiest mosques these pinnacles aspire

Origin

Late Middle English: from French aspirer or Latin aspirare, from ad- 'to' + spirare 'breathe'.

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).

Rhymes

acquire, admire, afire, applier, attire, ayah, backfire, barbwire, bemire, briar, buyer, byre, choir, conspire, crier, cryer, defier, denier, desire, dire, drier, dryer, dyer, enquire, entire, esquire, expire, fire, flyer, friar, fryer, Gaia, gyre, hellfire, hire, hiya, ire, Isaiah, jambalaya, Jeremiah, Josiah, Kintyre, latria, liar, lyre, Maia, Maya, Mayer, messiah, mire, misfire, Nehemiah, Obadiah, papaya, pariah, peripeteia, perspire, playa, Praia, prior, pyre, quire, replier, scryer, shire, shyer, sire, skyer, Sophia, spire, squire, supplier, Surabaya, suspire, tier, tire, transpire, trier, tumble-dryer, tyre, Uriah, via, wire, Zechariah, Zedekiah, Zephaniah

Definition of aspire in US English:

aspire

verbəˈspaɪ(ə)rəˈspī(ə)r

[no object]

1Direct one's hopes or ambitions toward achieving something.
渴望，有志于
we never thought that we might aspire to those heights
我们从来没有想到自己会渴望达到那些高度。
with infinitive other people will aspire to be like you
别的人会渴望自己能像你一样。
Example sentencesExamples
- It stirs us to strive for the goal, achieve the target and aspire to something beyond our comfort zone.
- Certainly from my point of view, I admire their success and aspire to be part of an organisation that could achieve that as well.
- We cannot eliminate all risk, and we should not aspire to do so.
- You can always aspire to the mediocre and attain less, or you can aspire to the great and hope that you get somewhere close.
- We need to ask ourselves, what kind of success do we aspire to achieve and at what cost?
- A street kid who was once sent to a reformatory, he aspired to be a boxer, enlisted in the navy, and did jail time for a minor robbery.
- It is the story of four African American girls who aspire to be recording artists.
- After all, who doesn't want their precious daughter to aspire to such heights?
- Most directors aspire to filmmaking; the money is better and cinema tends to place directors on a pedestal.
- The two loved movies and aspired to be filmmakers.
- What's more, many blogs aspire to be much more than online diaries.
- What counts most is what each individual can aspire to achieve with technology and the results they deliver.
- You must mark out your territory as an artist, so that others learn to envy you and aspire to what you are doing.
- For dancers aspiring to join the troupe, the audition, which is videotaped, generally consists of two parts: dance class and improvisation.
- If you want to aspire to any sort of academic achievement you need to be able to express yourself clearly.
- For those families who aspired to a nice car, a comfortable house, and private schools for their children, the new government promised economic and political tranquility.
- I was talking about people who aspire to have their ideas influence the public debate.
- The article is inspiring and it is to be hoped that we all aspire to live our lives in this way.
- These days artists aspire to come up with an idea for something new to put on an arts grant application.
- They are generally educated abroad but aspire to return home, not settle there permanently.
Synonyms
desire, desire to, aim for, aim to, hope for, hope to, long for, long to, yearn for, yearn to, hanker after, hanker for, hanker to, set one's heart on, wish for, wish to, want, want to, expect, expect to, have the objective of, dream of, hunger for, hunger to, seek, seek to, pursue, have as one's aim, have as one's goal, set one's sights on
would-be, intending, aspirant, hopeful, optimistic, budding, wishful
1. 1.1literary Rise high; tower.
  〈诗/文〉升高；高耸
  above the domes of loftiest mosques, these pinnacles of death aspire

Origin

Late Middle English: from French aspirer or Latin aspirare, from ad- ‘to’ + spirare ‘breathe’.

词汇	aspire
释义	Definition of aspire in English: aspire verb əˈspʌɪəəˈspaɪ(ə)r [no object] 1Direct one's hopes or ambitions towards achieving something. 渴望，有志于 we never thought that we might aspire to those heights 我们从来没有想到自己会渴望达到那些高度。 with infinitive other people will aspire to be like you 别的人会渴望自己能像你一样。 Example sentencesExamples Certainly from my point of view, I admire their success and aspire to be part of an organisation that could achieve that as well. After all, who doesn't want their precious daughter to aspire to such heights? A street kid who was once sent to a reformatory, he aspired to be a boxer, enlisted in the navy, and did jail time for a minor robbery. For dancers aspiring to join the troupe, the audition, which is videotaped, generally consists of two parts: dance class and improvisation. What's more, many blogs aspire to be much more than online diaries. The two loved movies and aspired to be filmmakers. You can always aspire to the mediocre and attain less, or you can aspire to the great and hope that you get somewhere close. The article is inspiring and it is to be hoped that we all aspire to live our lives in this way. Most directors aspire to filmmaking; the money is better and cinema tends to place directors on a pedestal. It is the story of four African American girls who aspire to be recording artists. For those families who aspired to a nice car, a comfortable house, and private schools for their children, the new government promised economic and political tranquility. It stirs us to strive for the goal, achieve the target and aspire to something beyond our comfort zone. I was talking about people who aspire to have their ideas influence the public debate. They are generally educated abroad but aspire to return home, not settle there permanently. What counts most is what each individual can aspire to achieve with technology and the results they deliver. We need to ask ourselves, what kind of success do we aspire to achieve and at what cost? You must mark out your territory as an artist, so that others learn to envy you and aspire to what you are doing. We cannot eliminate all risk, and we should not aspire to do so. These days artists aspire to come up with an idea for something new to put on an arts grant application. If you want to aspire to any sort of academic achievement you need to be able to express yourself clearly. Synonyms desire (to), aim for/to, hope for/to, long for/to, yearn for/to, hanker after/for/to, set one's heart on, wish for/to, want (to), expect (to), have the objective of, dream of, hunger for/to, seek (to), pursue, have as one's goal/aim, set one's sights on be ambitious literary thirst for/after archaic be desirous of would-be, intending, aspirant, hopeful, optimistic, budding, wishful potential, possible, prospective, likely, future ambitious, eager, keen, striving, determined, enterprising, pioneering, progressive, motivated, driven, enthusiastic, energetic, zealous, committed, go-ahead, go-getting, purposeful informal wannabe, on the make archaic expectant 2literary Rise high; tower. 〈诗/文〉升高；高耸 above the domes of loftiest mosques these pinnacles aspire Origin Late Middle English: from French aspirer or Latin aspirare, from ad- 'to' + spirare 'breathe'. 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). Rhymes acquire, admire, afire, applier, attire, ayah, backfire, barbwire, bemire, briar, buyer, byre, choir, conspire, crier, cryer, defier, denier, desire, dire, drier, dryer, dyer, enquire, entire, esquire, expire, fire, flyer, friar, fryer, Gaia, gyre, hellfire, hire, hiya, ire, Isaiah, jambalaya, Jeremiah, Josiah, Kintyre, latria, liar, lyre, Maia, Maya, Mayer, messiah, mire, misfire, Nehemiah, Obadiah, papaya, pariah, peripeteia, perspire, playa, Praia, prior, pyre, quire, replier, scryer, shire, shyer, sire, skyer, Sophia, spire, squire, supplier, Surabaya, suspire, tier, tire, transpire, trier, tumble-dryer, tyre, Uriah, via, wire, Zechariah, Zedekiah, Zephaniah Definition of aspire in US English: aspire verbəˈspaɪ(ə)rəˈspī(ə)r [no object] 1Direct one's hopes or ambitions toward achieving something. 渴望，有志于 we never thought that we might aspire to those heights 我们从来没有想到自己会渴望达到那些高度。 with infinitive other people will aspire to be like you 别的人会渴望自己能像你一样。 Example sentencesExamples It stirs us to strive for the goal, achieve the target and aspire to something beyond our comfort zone. Certainly from my point of view, I admire their success and aspire to be part of an organisation that could achieve that as well. We cannot eliminate all risk, and we should not aspire to do so. You can always aspire to the mediocre and attain less, or you can aspire to the great and hope that you get somewhere close. We need to ask ourselves, what kind of success do we aspire to achieve and at what cost? A street kid who was once sent to a reformatory, he aspired to be a boxer, enlisted in the navy, and did jail time for a minor robbery. It is the story of four African American girls who aspire to be recording artists. After all, who doesn't want their precious daughter to aspire to such heights? Most directors aspire to filmmaking; the money is better and cinema tends to place directors on a pedestal. The two loved movies and aspired to be filmmakers. What's more, many blogs aspire to be much more than online diaries. What counts most is what each individual can aspire to achieve with technology and the results they deliver. You must mark out your territory as an artist, so that others learn to envy you and aspire to what you are doing. For dancers aspiring to join the troupe, the audition, which is videotaped, generally consists of two parts: dance class and improvisation. If you want to aspire to any sort of academic achievement you need to be able to express yourself clearly. For those families who aspired to a nice car, a comfortable house, and private schools for their children, the new government promised economic and political tranquility. I was talking about people who aspire to have their ideas influence the public debate. The article is inspiring and it is to be hoped that we all aspire to live our lives in this way. These days artists aspire to come up with an idea for something new to put on an arts grant application. They are generally educated abroad but aspire to return home, not settle there permanently. Synonyms desire, desire to, aim for, aim to, hope for, hope to, long for, long to, yearn for, yearn to, hanker after, hanker for, hanker to, set one's heart on, wish for, wish to, want, want to, expect, expect to, have the objective of, dream of, hunger for, hunger to, seek, seek to, pursue, have as one's aim, have as one's goal, set one's sights on would-be, intending, aspirant, hopeful, optimistic, budding, wishful 1.1literary Rise high; tower. 〈诗/文〉升高；高耸 above the domes of loftiest mosques, these pinnacles of death aspire Origin Late Middle English: from French aspirer or Latin aspirare, from ad- ‘to’ + spirare ‘breathe’.
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