| 释义 |
animating, ppl. a.|ˈænɪmeɪtɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
Life-giving, quickening, vivifying; enlivening, inspiring, encouraging; rendering life-like.
1680in Roxb. Bal. (1883) IV. 547 Bring me a man with animating stroaks, Whose pregnant Steel gives life to form⁓less rocks. 1727Thomson Summer 168 From him they draw their animating fire. 1782F. Burney Cecilia i. vii. (1783) 88 So animating are the designs of disinterested benevolence. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. §25. 182 The talk was incessant and animating. 1869Seeley Lect. & Ess. i. 18 No new animating principle. |