亚洲网紅露点

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afflatus

[ uh-fley-tuhs ]

noun

  1. inspiration; an impelling mental force acting from within.
  2. divine communication of knowledge.


afflatus

/ 蓹藞蹿濒别瑟迟蓹蝉 /

noun

  1. an impulse of creative power or inspiration, esp in poetry, considered to be of divine origin (esp in the phrase divine afflatus )
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of afflatus1

1655鈥65; < Latin 补蹿蹿濒腻迟耻蝉 a breathing on, equivalent to af- af- + 蹿濒腻- (stem of 蹿濒腻谤别 to blow 2 ) + -tus suffix of v. action
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of afflatus1

C17: Latin, from 补蹿蹿濒腻迟耻蝉, from af蹿濒腻谤别 to breathe or blow on, from 蹿濒腻谤别 to blow
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The divine afflatus usually lasted a week or two, and then she emerged from her 鈥榲ortex鈥, hungry, sleepy, cross, or despondent.

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He enhanced the model with jet travel and a visionary, indefinitely utopian afflatus like that of a Buckminster Fuller or a Marshall McLuhan.

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At the same, he crucially overrides aspects of Deng鈥檚 legacy that might limit his afflatus and sense of mission.鈥

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There, the Hagen never let the afflatus of passion overrule the printed markings in the music; if Brahms wrote 鈥減iano,鈥 the playing stayed soft, no matter how amorous the feeling.

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But he was impelled throughout with the afflatus of Dvorak鈥檚 earthy genius and made the BSO sound like one of the prestigious European orchestras visiting the Kennedy Center.

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