喜樂美語
  1. 1（動詞）沉思、思忖；（名詞）繆思、靈感來源

    As a verb, to muse means to think quietly and slowly about something, often gazing off into the distance while you do it — 'she mused about her future' means she thought about it calmly, without rushing to a conclusion. As a noun, a muse is a person, or sometimes an idea or place, that inspires an artist and gives them ideas — the word comes from the Muses, goddesses of art and inspiration in ancient Greek stories. A painter might call their favorite model their 'muse.'

From the word’s history

From Middle English musen, from Old French muser.

源自中古英文 musen，來自古法文 muser。

Wiktionary

組成from the Muses, the nine goddesses of art and inspiration in Greek mythology

同家族的字

  • museumoriginally meant a place sacred to the Muses
  • musicoriginally meant the art of the Muses

原始詞典資料13 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Musenoun詞源 1/mjuːz/

  • 1

    One of the nine Ancient Greek deities of the arts.

    • And hears the Muſes in a ring, Ay round about Joves Altar ſing.

Musename詞源 2

  • 1

    A city in Shan State, Myanmar.

Musename詞源 3

  • 1

    A surname.

  • 2

    A place in the United States:

  • 3

    A place in the United States:

musenoun詞源 1/mjuːz/

  • 1

    Of a person: a source of inspiration.

    • Yoko Ono was John Lennon's wife, lover, and muse.
  • 2

    archaicA poet; a bard.

    • My toung-tide Muſe in manners holds her ſtill, While comments of your praiſe richly compil'd, Reſerue their Character with goulden quill, And precious phraſe by all the Muſes fil’d.
    • So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favour my destined urn

museverb詞源 2/mjuːz/

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    To become lost in thought, to ponder.

  • 2

    To say (something) with due consideration or thought.

    • When I asked about her affinity for playing self-obsessed artists, O’Hara mused: “Maybe I’m just trying to get it out of my system. I’m so afraid to be like that.”
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:muse.
  • 3

    To think on; to meditate on.

    • Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise.
    • It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
  • 4

    To wonder at.

    • Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed; for what I will, I will, and there an end.

musenoun詞源 2/mjuːz/

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    An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness.

    • still he sate long time astonished / As in great muse, ne word to creature spake.
    • And with this Alan fell into a muse, and for a long time sate^([sic]) very sad and silent.

musenoun詞源 3/mjuːz/

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    A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.

    • Find a hare without a muse. (old proverb)

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