a person or spirit that gives a writer, painter, etc. ideas and the desire to create things （作家、画家等的）灵感；创作冲动的源泉 - Muse
(in ancient Greek and Roman stories) one of the nine goddesses who encouraged poetry, music and other branches of art and literature 缪斯（古希腊和古罗马神话中执掌诗歌、音乐和其他文学艺术分支的九位女神之一）
Word Originnoun late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin musa, from Greek mousa ‘muse’.