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 aspire [ә'spaiә]   添加此单词到默认生词本
vi. 渴望, 立志于

  1. He aspired to leadership even in his childhood.
    童年时代他就渴望当领袖。
  2. The young girl aspired to be a scientist.
    小女孩立志要做一名科学家。
  3. A goal to which adherents of a religious faith or practice fervently aspire.
    向往的目标具有强烈、执著的宗教信仰的目标和抱负


aspire
[ verb ]
have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal
<verb.cognition> aim draw a bead on shoot for


Aspire \As*pire"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Aspired}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Aspiring}.] [F. aspirer, L. aspirare. See {Aspirate}, v.
t.]
1. To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high
or great; to pant; to long; -- followed by to or after,
and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire
after immorality.

Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell;
Aspiring to be angels, men rebel. --Pope.

2. To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.

My own breath still foments the fire,
Which flames as high as fancy can aspire. --Waller.


Aspire \As*pire"\, v. t.
To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to.
[Obs.]

That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds. --Shak.


Aspire \As*pire"\, n.
Aspiration. [Obs.] --Chapman.

  1. The ASE specialises in mid-capitalisation, solid-growth stocks, while the NYSE is seen as the market most companies aspire to be listed on when they grow big enough. That hierarchy, however, is being challenged.
  2. Italian ballet students are being helped to aspire to the achievements of compatriots Carla Fracci and Alessandra Ferri.
  3. Powerful men like former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe, who was re-elected Sunday despite ties to the Recruit scandal, reportedly aspire to replace him.
  4. 'It seems to be all right for a Roman Catholic to aspire to be part of an all-Ireland but it seems to be a sin for us to aspire not to be.
  5. 'It seems to be all right for a Roman Catholic to aspire to be part of an all-Ireland but it seems to be a sin for us to aspire not to be.
  6. Boys who aspire to professional ranks devour fried chicken and doughnuts. Training involves squatting with legs spread wide apart, pounding one's head on the opponent's chest, and slapping the opponent's cheeks at lightning speed to upset his balance.
  7. That's what I aspire to be." Baker has no catch phrase like Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound" or Motown's "Sound of Young America."
  8. But it is absolutely nothing as good as we aspire to in the future.' Indeed, he says, the task of turning the company into a thoroughbred marketing organisation has barely begun.
  9. They don't ask the audience to aspire to anything." Some TV columnists had a field day with that one.
  10. "We need to start to persuade students at a younger age that they ought to aspire to go to college and that college is a realistic prospect," he said.
  11. Nations that aspire to develop international financial centers are reluctant to fetter their banking systems with regulations aimed at countering money laundering.
  12. They increasingly accept that their economies can aspire to match its achievements only in selected areas. Some Korean exporters are also placing less emphasis on the US and western Europe, after losing market share there.
  13. Surveys at the nation's elite business schools show that most future MBAs aspire to "investment banking" or "mergers and acquisitions," as opposed to such mundane pursuits as "manufacturing."
  14. On a final note, although I might well aspire for a week to the life style you describe in your article, if my actual life style were 10% as glamorous as you made it out to be, Robin Leach would look like a piker by comparison.
  15. After all, businessmen do not normally aspire to run the nation.
  16. This domestic, repetitive argument hardly seems a sound basis for formulating the policy of the largest economic power towards a country that may aspire to that position, some think by the end of the decade. China has changed.
  17. A workplace is which gays and lesbians know they can aspire to management roles, even though it is known they are gay, will be one with enhanced sensitivity to these issues in our communities.
  18. Although he professed not to aspire to politics, Sakharov was elected to represent the Academy in the new Congress.
  19. I do not aspire to be a public figure. I lead a private life, a quiet life.
  20. But for assessing statements of national policy by those who aspire to high office, it helps to know something about the craftsman behind the words.
  21. Watanabe, a former Cabinet minister who held the finance and trade portfolios, is a powerful political figure known to aspire to be Japan's premier.
  22. Western and democratic values will be written off even by those Arabs who aspire to them.
  23. For instance, five contestants aspire to be attorneys; others want to be a doctor, a medical researcher and a pharmacist.
  24. What the company badly needs is a ballerina and a premier danseur of sufficient distinction to epitomize the standards of accomplishment to which LFB as a whole can aspire.
  25. Like most people, other than the very old, I aspire to live in a bigger house.
  26. The military victory in the Gulf war has created the intoxicating illusion that Washington can aspire to lay down rules of conduct among nations.
  27. And, so, what I want to do is finalize our standards and then urge everybody in all branches of government to aspire to those standards.
  28. As long as there isn't a U.S. government "with common sense and political courage to understand that it cannot aspire to change us, there will not be bilateral progress," the editorial said.
  29. "The Germans _ and no one should doubt it _ have no intention of starting in tomorrow's Europe a discussion about frontiers which would necessarily compromise the order of European peace to which we all aspire together," he said.
  30. "Kids aspire to be what the superstars are, so they try to use the drugs they perceive the athletes are using," he said.
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