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aspire

/uh-spahyuhr/US // əˈspaɪər //UK // (əˈspaɪə) //

渴望,向往,向往的,有志于

Related Words

pursue追求,追寻,追踪,争取crave渴望,热望,渴望着,贪恋yearn渴望,向往,盼望着,盼望strive争取,努力,力争,努力奋斗desire愿望,欲望,渴望,希望seek寻求,寻找,求,征求long长,长的,长时间,长期hanker嗜好者,渴求,褊狭的人,嗜好try尝试,试试,试试吧,试图struggle奋斗,挣扎,斗争,奋斗目标want想,要,想要,希望wish希望,愿望,祝愿,愿dream梦想,梦,梦中,梦境

Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    as·pired, as·pir·ing.

    • : to long, aim, or seek ambitiously; be eagerly desirous, especially for something great or of high value: to aspire after literary immortality; to aspire to be a doctor.
    • : Archaic. to rise up; soar; mount; tower.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbaim, hope
Forms: aspired, aspiring
Synonyms
crave渴望,热望,渴望着,贪恋pursue追求,追寻,追踪,争取strive争取,努力,力争,努力奋斗yearn渴望,向往,盼望着,盼望desire愿望,欲望,渴望,希望dream梦想,梦,梦中,梦境hanker嗜好者,渴求,褊狭的人,嗜好long长,长的,长时间,长期seek寻求,寻找,求,征求struggle奋斗,挣扎,斗争,奋斗目标try尝试,试试,试试吧,试图want想,要,想要,希望wish希望,愿望,祝愿,愿be ambitious有志气,有志者事竟成,有抱负,有雄心壮志be eager急于求成,心急如焚,心急吃不了热豆腐,渴望

Examples

  • Until now, he didn’t have the awareness or the nerve to aspire to such potency.

  • A judge later ruled that Grindr could not be held responsible, citing Section 230 — a mistake, in Warner’s view, that his bill aspires to fix.

  • The fact that services like these — the new generation of robocalls, as it were — can sound “lifelike”, like actual humans, has been something that consumer versions have aspired to, although that hasn’t always worked out for the best.

  • By the end of 2025, GM aspires to have 40 percent of its US fleet composed of battery-electric cars, and have zero pollutants coming out of new light duty cars’ tailpipes by 2035.

  • Because of that burden, they usually don’t aspire to that level of detail unless their research question absolutely requires it.

  • As Americans, we should absolutely aspire to more than that.

  • Cheerleaders fall in love with freaks, jocks aspire to be indie musicians, and relationships are in a constant state of flux.

  • Most bands these days aspire to reproduce their recordings on stage as faithfully as possible.

  • My deepest desire is that my work will help people aspire to the life those kinds of images evoke.

  • Our research indicates they can end up having a similar effect to an 'in-group' in high school that others aspire to join.

  • I must aspire to the agitating transports of self-devotion, in scenes of sacrifice and peril!

  • To imitate finite excellence, is to aspire at excellence, even though but in part.

  • And why should good men claim for it the character of an ordinance of God, to which even of itself it does not aspire?

  • He made the profession of a teacher the most honorable calling to which a citizen could aspire.

  • At a time when money might aspire to everything, the millionaire's dreams had nothing very exorbitant.

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