spirit
美 [?sp?r?t] 
英 ['sp?r?t]
- n.精神；靈魂；心靈；勇氣
- v.偷偷帶走；讓人不可思議地弄走
- 網絡精靈；烈酒；幽靈
詞形變化
復數：spirits 現在分詞：spiriting 過去式：spirited 反義詞
英漢雙解
思想；感情；性格mind/feelings/character
1. | [u][c] 精神；心靈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 人類克服困難的精神力量 |
2. | [pl] 情緒；心境a person's feelings or state of mind |
| to be in high/low spirits 情緒高漲╱低落 |
| You must try and keep your spirits up(= stay cheerful) . 你必須設法保持高昂的情緒。 |
| My spirits sank at the prospect of starting all over again. 想到一切都得從頭再來，我的情緒一下子低落了。 |
3. | [c] （某種類型的）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 |
勇氣；決心courage/determination
4. | [u] 勇氣；志氣；意志；活力courage, determination or energy |
| Show a little fighting spirit . 要表現出一點斗志。 |
| Although the team lost, they played with tremendous spirit. 盡管輸了，但隊員表現得極為勇猛。 |
| They took away his freedom and broke his spirit. 他們奪去了他的自由，摧垮了他的意志。 |
忠心loyal feelings
5. | [u][sing] （對團體、隊伍、社會的）忠心loyal feelings towards a group, team or society |
| There's not much community spirit around here. 這里集體精神比較薄弱。 |
態度attitude
6. | [sing] 心態；態度a state of mind or mood; an attitude |
| We approached the situation in the wrong spirit. 我們以前對待局勢的心態不對。 |
| ‘OK, I'll try’. ‘ That's the spirit(= the right attitude) .’ “好吧，我來試試。”“這就對了。” |
| The party went well because everyone entered into the spirit of things . 晚會很成功，因為每個人都很投入。 |
根本屬性typical quality
7. | [sing] 本質；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 . 這個展覽會抓住了時代精神。 |
真實意義real meaning
8. | [u] 真實意義；實質the real or intended meaning or purpose of sth |
| Obey the spirit, not the letter(= the narrow meaning of the words) of the law. 要依照法律的精神實質，而不是字面意思。 |
靈魂soul
9. | [c] 靈魂；鬼魂；幽靈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，但他的靈魂將永存。 |
| It was believed that people could be possessed by evil spirits. 從前，人們相信人有可能被惡魔纏身。 |
想象中的生靈imaginary creature
10. | [c] 仙子；小精靈；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. 我不喝威士忌和白蘭地，也不喝其他烈性酒。 |
12. | [u] 工業酒精；醫用酒精a special type of alcohol used in industry or medicine |
1. | ~ sth + adv./prep. 偷偷帶走；讓人不可思議地弄走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. 音樂會結束后，樂隊沒等歌迷靠近就神秘地消失了。 |
習慣用語
in spirit
| I shall be with you in spirit(= thinking about you though not with you physically) . 我的心將和你在一起。 |
the spirit is willing (but the flesh is weak)
心靈固然愿意，肉體卻軟弱；心有余而力不足；力不從心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
要是愿意的話as/when/if you feel like it
| I'll go for a run this evening, if the spirit moves me. 今晚要是有興致的話，我要去跑步。 |
英漢解釋
英英解釋
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?
有人說：圣靈告訴我去建立我自己的教會，所以我接受圣經且創辦教會，這種教會是真的教會嗎？
Spirit is all that matters.
靈魂才是一切。
We have had a great team spirit since the beginning of the season in this squad.
我們的隊伍從賽季開始就一直保持著很好的團隊士氣。
So far as the general tone or spirit of a language goes, this may be true, but it is not true in detail.
限于語言的一般的風格或精神來說，可能是對的，但在細節上不對。
She was like a spirit stuck into a form that would not hold her.
她就像被困進框架里的精靈，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.
但我要從父那里差保惠師來，就是從父出來真理的圣靈，他來了，就要為我作見證。
the idea was that the body imprisons your spirit and your soul, and this comes to be a part of Platonism at the time.
這觀點就是肉體禁錮了你的思想和靈魂，這成為了柏拉圖主義的一部分。
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.
而美國人一貫務實，敢于變革創新，他們選擇奧巴馬、賦予他撥亂反正的權力，就充分體現這種精神。
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，當你內心忐忑不安，難以入寐，要謹記耶穌與你同在。
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.
任何勸告，不管有多好，除非你在精神上和思想上都可深刻感覺它的明智，否則不要聽從。
Enterprise culture is the core spirit and strong impetus of an enterprise, which may be used for reference by an arbitration organization.
企業文化是企業的核心精神和深層動力，它對仲裁機構的管理非常有借鑒意義。
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.
我要將我的神賜于你們五內，使你們遵行我的規律，恪守我的誡命，且一一實行。
I could not help but remark on the difference between the spirit of Madrid and that of Valencia or Barcelona.
我忍不住提起馬德里與巴倫西亞或是巴塞羅那在士氣上的區別。
Besides, no matter how well a poem is translated, something of the spirit of the original work is lost.
而且，無論首詩翻譯得多好，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.
他就是他父親的勇氣和力量，弟兄們的精神和機會，子女的希望，妻子的財富。
The impulsive Lavinia asked herself whether the modification of the young man's original project had been conceived in a happy spirit.
這位心血來潮的拉維尼婭也懷疑地問起自己來，年輕人改變初衷的決定是不是在一個得意忘形的時刻作出的。
Under water, and sleeping with the snow spirit, she was about to be the land destroyed, his face with a hate expression.
水底，沉睡著雪精靈，她即將被土地毀滅，臉上帶著憎恨的表情。
Jesus called out with a loud voice, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit. " When he had said this, he breathed his last.
耶穌大聲喊著說：“父啊！我將我的靈魂交在你手里。”說了這話，氣就斷了。
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個氣味相投的自己人。
Adaptable, proactive, patience, meticulous, a strong sense of responsibility, good team cooperation spirit, has the affinity.
適應力強，工作積極主動，耐心細致，責任心強，富于團隊協作精神，有親和力。
The words of holy trust, breathed by the friendly old man, stole like sacred music over the harassed and chafed spirit of George.
那善良的長者朗誦的這首表示圣潔信仰的詩篇，就象仙樂一樣撫慰著喬治受盡折磨和損傷的靈魂。
The rumor said that if he had the spirit of a mouse he wouldn't stand it.
謠言說如果他只有耗子的膽量，他是承受不住的
It was in the spirit of the cultivated tourist that he approached his destination.
他以一個高雅游客的心情到達了目的地。
Her tears ceased to flow, and her great spirit rose to its full stature again.
她止住了眼淚，她那勃勃的雄心又高漲到頂點了。
She wasn't what you call a woman of spirit.
她不是你找的所謂性格剛強的人物。
This creature cannot be a witch, or have any conversation with a spirit.
這個老東西不會是個女巫，也不會同精靈有什么對話。
They may raise up the spirit and help the mind of the sufferer.
他們或許可以振奮精神，幫助那些受難的人。
The spirit of adventure rose in the boy's soul once more.
這個孩子心里重新有了冒險的精神。
And now, when the English spirit stand at its full height to do so would be a double loss.
而在今天當英國精神極為高漲的時候，這樣做更會受到雙重損失。
He felt better after having eaten than he had felt before, less weary of his life, less vanquished in spirit.
吃飽了肚子，他覺得心情好些了，對生活不那么厭倦了，精神也不那么沮喪了。
In general the accuracy of geoidal heights, as given by spirit leveling, much exceeds that of any other system.
一般說來，水準測量測出的大地水準面高程的精度，遠遠超過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.
他們都心神不安，竭力想給晚會增加點兒氣氛。
His eyes want all that spirit, that fire, which at once announce virtue and intelligence.
他的眼睛里缺乏那種能馬上表現出美德與智慧的神情與光芒。
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.
他就是他父親的勇氣和力量，弟兄們的精神和機會，子女的希望，妻子的財富。
I suppose it was commonplace in me that I felt slightly outraged at his lack of spirit.
我想對他這種沒有骨氣我有一些惱火是不足為奇的。
Occasionally a girl of intelligence and spirit would insist on the fulfilment of the terms of her indentures.
偶爾也有個把聰明、倔強的姑娘堅決要求履行合同上的規定。
Spirit levels on the gyro may be used to determine whether the instrument has settled with a list.
陀螺上的氣泡水準儀可用以確定儀表的放置是否傾斜。
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（普拉太亞之戰）以后，米地人和波斯人的政府好象已經喪失了元氣。
Years ago I never cared a straw for what anyone in the world thought of me, but my spirit is broken.
幾年前，我壓根兒不在乎任何人對我看法如何；然而我的精神現已崩潰。
She was therefore obliged to seek another branch of the subject, and related, with much bitterness of spirit and some exaggeration.
她因此不得不另找話題，她的措辭辛辣尖刻，而又帶有幾分夸張。
She had hard times trying to curb the fiery spirit which was continually getting her into trouble.
她苦苦地想羈勒住一再導致她不幸的躁脾氣。
He was born on the Far South, on the d'Arnault plantation, where the spirit if not the fact of slavery persisted.
他出生在美國最南部的達諾爾德的種植園里，那里如果說奴隸制度在事實上沒有了，奴隸制的精神卻依然存在。
Those who cultivate mathematics for its own sake are idle searchers given to a vain play of the spirit.
那些為數學而搞數學的人是白費精神的盲目的研究者。
Immediately a spirit came out of the bottle.
一個妖怪立刻從瓶子里鉆出來了。
She was a lady of such ungovernable spirit and fiery temper.
她是一個性子暴躁倔強，很難管教的姑娘。
We need a little more of that spirit in Washington today.
今天的華盛頓需要多一點這種精神。
You speak like a man of spirit.
你說的話真象個大丈夫。
He called for a spirit of resolution and sacrifice to meet the many challenges of the times.
他呼吁以果斷與犧牲的精神來應付當前的許多批評。
I had indeed enough of wine to spirit me for what was before me.
我確實喝了足量的酒提神，以面對當前的情況。
This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind.
不幸的是，這種精神和我們的天性分不開，植根于人類最強烈的感情之中。
Science and spirit seemed so incongruent, and yet they both appeared to be two windows looking into the same house.
科學和精神看似不統一，它們就像兩扇窗戶，讓人們從不同角度看同一個房子。
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，鼻孔有生命氣息的，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.
保守的央行行長們擔心這仍將會破壞禁止歐洲中央銀行直接購買的規定，至少在精神上破壞了規矩。
It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
他得了圣靈的啟示，知道自己未死以前，必看見主所立的基督。
That's the spirit we want people who are watching from afar to understand, this home is beginning to be.
那是我們想要人從在遠處觀看了解的精神，這個家開始是。
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.
我感覺不對，從精神風波中急速退出，過度的急速，頓時使我的頭腦中又一陣空白，天旋地轉似的。
It would be heartbreaking to lose such a beautiful spirit to a life of violence and prostitution.
這樣一個美麗精靈如果遭遇暴力落入魔窟將會令人痛心疾首。
She thanked him for representing America by bringing the language, the sounds and the spirit of jazz to people around the world.
他感謝DaveBrubeck通過語言，聲音，和爵士精神把美國形象介紹給全世界。
It was not so much the many blows he received as the lack of fighting spirit that led to his losing the game.
與其說是他受到的打擊太多，還不如說他沒有求勝欲才導致他輸掉了比賽。
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.
耶和華說，人既屬乎血氣，我的靈就不永遠住在他里面。然而他的日子還可到一百二十年。
the lack of the spirit to put words into action, the last is often attributed to the failure of their own fate.
不將自己的想法付諸時間，最后經常將失敗歸結為運氣。
For it is the strength of your spirit that shall help you to overcome what you may perceive as an impossible, challenging life.
因為是你們的精神的力量將幫助你們克服你們所覺知的一個不可能的，充滿挑戰的生活。
If I could believe it -- my spirit, you know, is pretty independent.
可惜我不信你那一套！——你知道，我的心是不受約束的。
What was attractive about Cambridge was that it valued independent spirit: one could develop one's life in a personally appropriate way.
劍橋最吸引我的地方是它崇尚獨立精神，一個人可以發展與其個性相適應的人生道路。
Rogge also said the sight of Georgian and Russian athletes embracing was an embodiment of the Olympic spirit.
羅格還表示，格魯吉亞和俄羅斯選手互相擁抱，使體育超越政治，是奧運精神的體現。
"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.
他滿懷熱情地表示：“就讀MBA點燃了我的企業家精神。我決定在仍然懷有激情的時候把它釋放出來。”
This is what I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt. And my Spirit remains among you. Do not fear.
這是照著你們出埃及我與你們立約的話。那時，我的靈住在你們中間。你們不要懼怕。
Goethe said, the spirit to make every extraordinary thing is always linked to youth and creativity.
歌德說過，“創造一切非凡事物的那種精神總是同青年時代和創造力聯系在一起的。”
With a clear mind and renewed spirit he was now entirely ready to enter a program of career recovery.
他現在頭腦清醒、重振精神，已經為參加職業康復計劃做好了充分的準備。
It was the most genuine spirit of Zomax, with incomparable cohesiveness, which had been manifested in the storm.
真正的中馬精神、中馬無可比擬的向心力就在這場風雨中得以見證！
The spirit is allowed to mature in oakwood.
將酒盛在櫟木器內釀熟。
In view of this news, Mr. Chairman, I admire your cheerfulness of spirit at the banquet tonight.
聽到這些消息，主席先生，我欽佩您在今晚宴會上表現的樂觀精神。
Undazzled by their splendor, one may discern more easily their individualities and the spirit of their time.
他們的光芒不會令人炫目，于是人們可以更容易地辨別他們的個性，認識他們時代的精神。
This is insight, perceptivity, the exaltation of spirit that is possible for everyone.
這是人人都能養成的眼力、悟性、逸興。
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.
他心氣高，聽不得不和善的話。
May, the older girl, in the spirit of play, had shut Ellen in the vault.
那較大的女孩--梅--為著好玩，把艾蘭關進了保險庫。
She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends.
不過她卻滿有興致地把這個故事去講給她的朋友聽。
"God is the supreme spirit! " Abner argued.
“上帝是最高的神靈！”艾布納反駁說。
The rest freshened my spirit.
我休息后精神飽滿。
