英和和英

発音

• 韻: -aɪəɹɪŋ

形容詞

aspiring (not comparable)

1. Hoping to become.

   Aspiring pop stars lined up for hours just to audition.

   Synonyms: ambitious, wannabe, would-be

   • 1910, Emma Goldman, “Anarchism” in Anarchism, and Other Essays, New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, p. 70,^[1]

     Time and time again the people were foolish enough to trust, believe, and support with their last farthing aspiring politicians, only to find themselves betrayed and cheated.

   • 2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, Chapter 16,^[2]

     Here three aspiring young seamstresses—diplomas in dressmaking from the People’s College of Zimbabwe hung on the wall—bicker and scowl at each other.

動詞

aspiring

1. present participle of aspire

派生語

• aspiringly

名詞

aspiring (複数形 aspirings)

1. (archaic) Aspiration.
   • 1661, Joseph Glanvill, The Vanity of Dogmatizing, London: Henry Eversden, Chapter 22, pp. 214-215,^[3]

     […] if we contemplate a vegetable in its material principle, and look on it as made of earth; we must have the true Theory of the nature of that Element, or we miserably fail of our Scientifical aspirings,

   • 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 44, 18 August, 1750, in Volume 2, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, pp. 83-84,^[4]

     […] to the aspirings of unassuming trust, and filial confidence, are set no bounds.

   • 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, London: C. and J. Ollier, Canto 4, stanza 12, p. 81,^[5]

     From whatsoe’er my wakened thoughts create

     Out of the hopes of thine aspirings bold,

     Have I collected language to unfold

     Truth to my countrymen;

アナグラム

• pairings, praising