Doesn't it seem like a fairy tale! But then this man has all his life been making fairy tales into realities. He inspired the child. He inspired the trustees. He inspired the owner of the land. He inspired the people.英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
It cannot strangle these as thou wert strangled, poor Carlo! I shall remember thee this evening, Carlo, and hope the thought of thee may inspire me for a right beautiful improvisation on death! I shall take pains to bring to mind thy beautiful form overflowed with blood. Yes, it will inspire in me a very effective improvisation, and I will at the same time make a selection from my dear poets of some striking rhymes upon death and the grave. And when I have the rhymes, the thoughts and words will come of themselves. Rhymes, rhymes, these are the main things with poets!"英文原著 · 《The Daughter of an Empress》
The most hardened rake, when passion possesses him, wishes all happiness to the woman of his pursuit. Indifference, coldness--the natural hard-heartedness of the normal man--returns only when the inspiration and elevation of passion disappear in satiety. The man or the woman who continues to inspire passion continues to inspire tenderness and considerateness.英文原著 · 《The Dust》
finish! the last blow!" and she drew her head down in terror between her shoulders, like the lamb awaiting the blow of the butcher's axe. "So I inspire you with horror?" he said at length. She made no reply. "Do I inspire you with horror?" he repeated. Her lips contracted, as though with a smile. "Yes," said she, "the headsman scoffs at the condemned. Here he has been pursuing me, threatening me, terrifying me for months!英文原著 · 《The Hunchback of Notre Dame》
The legislators who decreed that henceforth the rope should be reserved for the ultimate crime of murder were inspired with a proper sense of humour and proportion. It would be ignoble to dignify that ugly enterprise of to-day, the cracking of suburban cribs, with the same punishment which was meted out to Claude Duval and the immortal Switcher. Better for the churl the disgrace of Portland than the chance of heroism and respect given at the Tree!英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
Tyrants both, they exercised their sovereignty in accordance with their varying temperament. Hers was a fine, fat, Falstaffian humour, which, while it inspired Middleton, might have suggested to Shakespeare an equal companion of the drunken knight. His was but a narrow, cynic wit, not edged like the knife, which wellnigh cut his throat, but blunt and scratching like a worn-toothed saw.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
When the guys see me training to climb the Col du Tourmalet, it'll inspire them to great heights, too.美剧 · 《Billions》
Three -- when the guys look in here and see you training for the Tour de France in your underwear in Wendy Rhoades' office, they're not inspired.美剧 · 《Billions》
In hopes that it would inspire us to get the other fella in that position.美剧 · 《Billions》
And I'm no longer a blank slate for the guys I'm supposed to treat, inspire, change.美剧 · 《Billions》