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afflatus

/uh-fley-tuhs/US // əˈfleɪ təs //UK // (əˈfleɪtəs) //

哗众取宠,哗哗哗,哗啦啦,哗众取宠的行为

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : inspiration; an impelling mental force acting from within.
    • : divine communication of knowledge.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as ininspiration

Examples

  • He had received from somewhere new afflatus for the story of Tom and Huck, and was working on it steadily.

  • It is simply a tenaqueous bag of wind, yet it has occasionally given an impulse to the divine afflatus.

  • Lie down on the dusty shingle above high water mark, take off my hat, and abandon myself to the Divine Afflatus.

  • The afflatus of liberty sat upon the people as cloven tongues.

  • So it seems that our poet drank in the divine afflatus, as it were, with his mother's milk.