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muse

/myooz/US // myuz //UK // (mjuːz) //

缪斯,缪思,酝酿,缪斯女神

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    mused, mus·ing.

    • : to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject.
    • : Archaic. to gaze meditatively or wonderingly.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    mused, mus·ing.

    • : to meditate on.
    • : to comment thoughtfully or ruminate upon.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • After Loeffler’s loss, NBA superstar LeBron James mused on Twitter about putting an ownership group together to purchase the Dream.

  • The next day, by contrast, our buddy-comedy protagonists might muse on themes befitting a comic-strip title that name-checks two lofty thinkers.

  • I like to imagine all these years later it’s still circulating, reaching all the places Morris mused about in its pages.

  • Yanis Varoufakis, the former finance minister of Greece and a left-wing icon, has repeatedly mused about the uses of Bitcoin for the left.

  • This is consistent with the sentiment many artists express that their creative process is being directed by a “muse” or outside agent.

  • Muse was looking to regain custody of her four children—Justin, Sarah, Patrick and Rachel.

  • There are numerous paintings and drawings of Olga, who served as Picasso's muse for many years.

  • Many celebrities, it seems, are saddling up into fashion muse side jobs.

  • He follows his own muse—he's a world-class weirdo—but at the same time, he's never solely concerned with pleasing himself.

  • West told the paper he was in Italy to look at textiles and designs for the fashion label for which Kardashian is his muse.

  • Soon after the importation of the "durned weed" from Virginia the tobacco muse gave forth many a lay concerning the custom.

  • A lamp stood on the chimney-piece shedding its rays over the Muse in one of her most bewitching aspects.

  • The summer passed; and Thyrsis found to his dismay that his relentless muse had not yet permitted him to write a word.

  • Indeed, to call a work of art purely and simply "scientific," is tantamount to saying that it is dry and uninspired by the muse.

  • As we went, I kept looking across the water and sighing to myself; and, though I took no heed of it, Alan had fallen into a muse.