a person or spirit that gives a writer, painter, etc. ideas and the desire to create things （作家、畫家等的）靈感；創作沖動的源泉 - 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（古希臘和古羅馬神話中執掌詩歌、音樂和其他文學藝術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’.