spirit
美 [ˈspɪrɪt] 
英 ['spɪrɪt]
- n.精神；灵魂；心灵；勇气
- v.偷偷带走；让人不可思议地弄走
- 网络精灵；烈酒；幽灵
词形变化
复数：spirits 现在分词：spiriting 过去式：spirited 反义词
英汉双解
思想；感情；性格mind/feelings/character
1. | [u][c] 精神；心灵the part of a person that includes their mind, feelings and character rather than their body |
| the power of the human spirit to overcome difficulties 人类克服困难的精神力量 |
2. | [pl] 情绪；心境a person's feelings or state of mind |
| to be in high/low spirits 情绪高涨╱低落 |
| You must try and keep your spirits up(= stay cheerful) . 你必须设法保持高昂的情绪。 |
| My spirits sank at the prospect of starting all over again. 想到一切都得从头再来，我的情绪一下子低落了。 |
3. | [c] （某种类型的）人a person of the type mentioned |
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| kindred spirits(= people who like the same things as you) 志趣相投的人 |
勇气；决心courage/determination
4. | [u] 勇气；志气；意志；活力courage, determination or energy |
| Show a little fighting spirit . 要表现出一点斗志。 |
| Although the team lost, they played with tremendous spirit. 尽管输了，但队员表现得极为勇猛。 |
| They took away his freedom and broke his spirit. 他们夺去了他的自由，摧垮了他的意志。 |
忠心loyal feelings
5. | [u][sing] （对团体、队伍、社会的）忠心loyal feelings towards a group, team or society |
| There's not much community spirit around here. 这里集体精神比较薄弱。 |
态度attitude
6. | [sing] 心态；态度a state of mind or mood; an attitude |
| We approached the situation in the wrong spirit. 我们以前对待局势的心态不对。 |
| ‘OK, I'll try’. ‘ That's the spirit(= the right attitude) .’ “好吧，我来试试。”“这就对了。” |
| The party went well because everyone entered into the spirit of things . 晚会很成功，因为每个人都很投入。 |
根本属性typical quality
7. | [sing] 本质；精髓；基本精神the typical or most important quality or mood of sth |
| The exhibition captures the spirit of the age/times . 这个展览会抓住了时代精神。 |
真实意义real meaning
8. | [u] 真实意义；实质the real or intended meaning or purpose of sth |
| Obey the spirit, not the letter(= the narrow meaning of the words) of the law. 要依照法律的精神实质，而不是字面意思。 |
灵魂soul
9. | [c] 灵魂；鬼魂；幽灵the soul thought of as separate from the body and believed to live on after death; a ghost |
| He is dead, but his spirit lives on. 他死了，但他的灵魂将永存。 |
| It was believed that people could be possessed by evil spirits. 从前，人们相信人有可能被恶魔缠身。 |
想象中的生灵imaginary creature
10. | [c] 仙子；小精灵；小妖精an imaginary creature with magic powers, for example, a fairy or an elf |
酒精alcohol
11. | [c][usupl] 烈酒a strong alcoholic drink |
| I don't drink whisky or brandy or any other spirits. 我不喝威士忌和白兰地，也不喝其他烈性酒。 |
12. | [u] 工业酒精；医用酒精a special type of alcohol used in industry or medicine |
1. | ~ sth + adv./prep. 偷偷带走；让人不可思议地弄走to take sb/sth away in a quick, secret or mysterious way |
| After the concert, the band was spirited away before their fans could get near them. 音乐会结束后，乐队没等歌迷靠近就神秘地消失了。 |
习惯用语
in spirit
| I shall be with you in spirit(= thinking about you though not with you physically) . 我的心将和你在一起。 |
the spirit is willing (but the flesh is weak)
心灵固然愿意，肉体却软弱；心有余而力不足；力不从心you intend to do good things but you are too lazy, weak or busy to actually do them
as/when/if the spirit moves you
要是愿意的话as/when/if you feel like it
| I'll go for a run this evening, if the spirit moves me. 今晚要是有兴致的话，我要去跑步。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
Somebody says: the holy spirit told me to start my own church, so I accept the bible and I start, is it a church?
有人说：圣灵告诉我去建立我自己的教会，所以我接受圣经且创办教会，这种教会是真的教会吗？
Spirit is all that matters.
灵魂才是一切。
We have had a great team spirit since the beginning of the season in this squad.
我们的队伍从赛季开始就一直保持着很好的团队士气。
So far as the general tone or spirit of a language goes, this may be true, but it is not true in detail.
限于语言的一般的风格或精神来说，可能是对的，但在细节上不对。
She was like a spirit stuck into a form that would not hold her.
她就像被困进框架里的精灵，呼之欲出。
When the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.
但我要从父那里差保惠师来，就是从父出来真理的圣灵，他来了，就要为我作见证。
the idea was that the body imprisons your spirit and your soul, and this comes to be a part of Platonism at the time.
这观点就是肉体禁锢了你的思想和灵魂，这成为了柏拉图主义的一部分。
Their decision to put Obama in power and give him a mandate to bring order out of chaos is a clear manifestation of this spirit.
而美国人一贯务实，敢于变革创新，他们选择奥巴马、赋予他拨乱反正的权力，就充分体现这种精神。
In the dark of night when your spirit is in turmoil and sleep won't come, remember that Jesus is there with you.
在漆黑的晚上，当你内心忐忑不安，难以入寐，要谨记耶稣与你同在。
Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
任何劝告，不管有多好，除非你在精神上和思想上都可深刻感觉它的明智，否则不要听从。
Enterprise culture is the core spirit and strong impetus of an enterprise, which may be used for reference by an arbitration organization.
企业文化是企业的核心精神和深层动力，它对仲裁机构的管理非常有借鉴意义。
And I will put my spirit in the midst of you: and I will cause you to walk in my commandments, and to keep my judgments, and do them.
我要将我的神赐于你们五内，使你们遵行我的规律，恪守我的诫命，且一一实行。
I could not help but remark on the difference between the spirit of Madrid and that of Valencia or Barcelona.
我忍不住提起马德里与巴伦西亚或是巴塞罗那在士气上的区别。
Besides, no matter how well a poem is translated, something of the spirit of the original work is lost.
而且，无论首诗翻译得多好，原作中的某些精髓已失。
He was the courage and force of his father, the spirit and opportunity of his brothers, the hope of his children, the estate of his wife.
他就是他父亲的勇气和力量，弟兄们的精神和机会，子女的希望，妻子的财富。
The impulsive Lavinia asked herself whether the modification of the young man's original project had been conceived in a happy spirit.
这位心血来潮的拉维尼娅也怀疑地问起自己来，年轻人改变初衷的决定是不是在一个得意忘形的时刻作出的。
Under water, and sleeping with the snow spirit, she was about to be the land destroyed, his face with a hate expression.
水底，沉睡着雪精灵，她即将被土地毁灭，脸上带着憎恨的表情。
Jesus called out with a loud voice, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit. " When he had said this, he breathed his last.
耶稣大声喊着说：“父啊！我将我的灵魂交在你手里。”说了这话，气就断了。
He would have had a kindred spirit and his own man at the Foreign Office.
在外交部方面他也早就可以有一个气味相投的自己人。
Adaptable, proactive, patience, meticulous, a strong sense of responsibility, good team cooperation spirit, has the affinity.
适应力强，工作积极主动，耐心细致，责任心强，富于团队协作精神，有亲和力。
The words of holy trust, breathed by the friendly old man, stole like sacred music over the harassed and chafed spirit of George.
那善良的长者朗诵的这首表示圣洁信仰的诗篇，就象仙乐一样抚慰着乔治受尽折磨和损伤的灵魂。
The rumor said that if he had the spirit of a mouse he wouldn't stand it.
谣言说如果他只有耗子的胆量，他是承受不住的
It was in the spirit of the cultivated tourist that he approached his destination.
他以一个高雅游客的心情到达了目的地。
Her tears ceased to flow, and her great spirit rose to its full stature again.
她止住了眼泪，她那勃勃的雄心又高涨到顶点了。
She wasn't what you call a woman of spirit.
她不是你找的所谓性格刚强的人物。
This creature cannot be a witch, or have any conversation with a spirit.
这个老东西不会是个女巫，也不会同精灵有什么对话。
They may raise up the spirit and help the mind of the sufferer.
他们或许可以振奋精神，帮助那些受难的人。
The spirit of adventure rose in the boy's soul once more.
这个孩子心里重新有了冒险的精神。
And now, when the English spirit stand at its full height to do so would be a double loss.
而在今天当英国精神极为高涨的时候，这样做更会受到双重损失。
He felt better after having eaten than he had felt before, less weary of his life, less vanquished in spirit.
吃饱了肚子，他觉得心情好些了，对生活不那么厌倦了，精神也不那么沮丧了。
In general the accuracy of geoidal heights, as given by spirit leveling, much exceeds that of any other system.
一般说来，水准测量测出的大地水准面高程的精度，远远超过任何其它方法的精度。
They were all in such a stir, trying to put a little spirit into the party.
他们都心神不安，竭力想给晚会增加点儿气氛。
His eyes want all that spirit, that fire, which at once announce virtue and intelligence.
他的眼睛里缺乏那种能马上表现出美德与智慧的神情与光芒。
He was the courage and force of his father, the spirit and opportunity of his brothers, the hope of his children, the estate of his wife.
他就是他父亲的勇气和力量，弟兄们的精神和机会，子女的希望，妻子的财富。
I suppose it was commonplace in me that I felt slightly outraged at his lack of spirit.
我想对他这种没有骨气我有一些恼火是不足为奇的。
Occasionally a girl of intelligence and spirit would insist on the fulfilment of the terms of her indentures.
偶尔也有个把聪明、倔强的姑娘坚决要求履行合同上的规定。
Spirit levels on the gyro may be used to determine whether the instrument has settled with a list.
陀螺上的气泡水准仪可用以确定仪表的放置是否倾斜。
After 479 B. C(Platea)the spirit seems to have gone out of the government of the Medes and Persians.
公元前479年（普拉太亚之战）以后，米地人和波斯人的政府好象已经丧失了元气。
Years ago I never cared a straw for what anyone in the world thought of me, but my spirit is broken.
几年前，我压根儿不在乎任何人对我看法如何；然而我的精神现已崩溃。
She was therefore obliged to seek another branch of the subject, and related, with much bitterness of spirit and some exaggeration.
她因此不得不另找话题，她的措辞辛辣尖刻，而又带有几分夸张。
She had hard times trying to curb the fiery spirit which was continually getting her into trouble.
她苦苦地想羁勒住一再导致她不幸的躁脾气。
He was born on the Far South, on the d'Arnault plantation, where the spirit if not the fact of slavery persisted.
他出生在美国最南部的达诺尔德的种植园里，那里如果说奴隶制度在事实上没有了，奴隶制的精神却依然存在。
Those who cultivate mathematics for its own sake are idle searchers given to a vain play of the spirit.
那些为数学而搞数学的人是白费精神的盲目的研究者。
Immediately a spirit came out of the bottle.
一个妖怪立刻从瓶子里钻出来了。
She was a lady of such ungovernable spirit and fiery temper.
她是一个性子暴躁倔强，很难管教的姑娘。
We need a little more of that spirit in Washington today.
今天的华盛顿需要多一点这种精神。
You speak like a man of spirit.
你说的话真象个大丈夫。
He called for a spirit of resolution and sacrifice to meet the many challenges of the times.
他呼吁以果断与牺牲的精神来应付当前的许多批评。
I had indeed enough of wine to spirit me for what was before me.
我确实喝了足量的酒提神，以面对当前的情况。
This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind.
不幸的是，这种精神和我们的天性分不开，植根于人类最强烈的感情之中。
Science and spirit seemed so incongruent, and yet they both appeared to be two windows looking into the same house.
科学和精神看似不统一，它们就像两扇窗户，让人们从不同角度看同一个房子。
Everything in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.
凡在旱地上，鼻孔有生命气息的，都死了。
Conservative central bankers worry that it would still break the rule that bans direct purchases by the ECB, in spirit at least.
保守的央行行长们担心这仍将会破坏禁止欧洲中央银行直接购买的规定，至少在精神上破坏了规矩。
It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
他得了圣灵的启示，知道自己未死以前，必看见主所立的基督。
That's the spirit we want people who are watching from afar to understand, this home is beginning to be.
那是我们想要人从在远处观看了解的精神，这个家开始是。
I feel wrong, and in a rapid exit from the spirit of the storm, over-rapid, suddenly made my mind to have burst gaps, as if having dizzy.
我感觉不对，从精神风波中急速退出，过度的急速，顿时使我的头脑中又一阵空白，天旋地转似的。
It would be heartbreaking to lose such a beautiful spirit to a life of violence and prostitution.
这样一个美丽精灵如果遭遇暴力落入魔窟将会令人痛心疾首。
She thanked him for representing America by bringing the language, the sounds and the spirit of jazz to people around the world.
他感谢DaveBrubeck通过语言，声音，和爵士精神把美国形象介绍给全世界。
It was not so much the many blows he received as the lack of fighting spirit that led to his losing the game.
与其说是他受到的打击太多，还不如说他没有求胜欲才导致他输掉了比赛。
And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
耶和华说，人既属乎血气，我的灵就不永远住在他里面。然而他的日子还可到一百二十年。
the lack of the spirit to put words into action, the last is often attributed to the failure of their own fate.
不将自己的想法付诸时间，最后经常将失败归结为运气。
For it is the strength of your spirit that shall help you to overcome what you may perceive as an impossible, challenging life.
因为是你们的精神的力量将帮助你们克服你们所觉知的一个不可能的，充满挑战的生活。
If I could believe it -- my spirit, you know, is pretty independent.
可惜我不信你那一套！——你知道，我的心是不受约束的。
What was attractive about Cambridge was that it valued independent spirit: one could develop one's life in a personally appropriate way.
剑桥最吸引我的地方是它崇尚独立精神，一个人可以发展与其个性相适应的人生道路。
Rogge also said the sight of Georgian and Russian athletes embracing was an embodiment of the Olympic spirit.
罗格还表示，格鲁吉亚和俄罗斯选手互相拥抱，使体育超越政治，是奥运精神的体现。
"My entrepreneurial spirit was lit during the programme and I decided to give it a go while the fire was still in me, " he enthuses.
他满怀热情地表示：“就读MBA点燃了我的企业家精神。我决定在仍然怀有激情的时候把它释放出来。”
This is what I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt. And my Spirit remains among you. Do not fear.
这是照着你们出埃及我与你们立约的话。那时，我的灵住在你们中间。你们不要惧怕。
Goethe said, the spirit to make every extraordinary thing is always linked to youth and creativity.
歌德说过，“创造一切非凡事物的那种精神总是同青年时代和创造力联系在一起的。”
With a clear mind and renewed spirit he was now entirely ready to enter a program of career recovery.
他现在头脑清醒、重振精神，已经为参加职业康复计划做好了充分的准备。
It was the most genuine spirit of Zomax, with incomparable cohesiveness, which had been manifested in the storm.
真正的中马精神、中马无可比拟的向心力就在这场风雨中得以见证！
The spirit is allowed to mature in oakwood.
将酒盛在栎木器内酿熟。
In view of this news, Mr. Chairman, I admire your cheerfulness of spirit at the banquet tonight.
听到这些消息，主席先生，我钦佩您在今晚宴会上表现的乐观精神。
Undazzled by their splendor, one may discern more easily their individualities and the spirit of their time.
他们的光芒不会令人炫目，于是人们可以更容易地辨别他们的个性，认识他们时代的精神。
This is insight, perceptivity, the exaltation of spirit that is possible for everyone.
这是人人都能养成的眼力、悟性、逸兴。
What an amazing flow of spirit!
多么健旺的精神呀！
He has a very high spirit, and will not brook unkind words.
他心气高，听不得不和善的话。
May, the older girl, in the spirit of play, had shut Ellen in the vault.
那较大的女孩--梅--为着好玩，把艾兰关进了保险库。
She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends.
不过她却满有兴致地把这个故事去讲给她的朋友听。
"God is the supreme spirit! " Abner argued.
“上帝是最高的神灵！”艾布纳反驳说。
The rest freshened my spirit.
我休息后精神饱满。
