Spirit

(noun.) a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character.

(noun.) any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings.

(noun.) the vital principle or animating force within living things.

(noun.) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; 'the feel of the city excited him'; 'a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting'; 'it had the smell of treason'.

(verb.) infuse with spirit; 'The company spirited him up'.

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• It shows a magnanimous spirit and does not magnif y the importance of trifles. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Was he alone, that long night, whose brave, loving spirit was bearing up, in that old shed, against buffeting and brutal stripes? 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Meantime, watch and pray that you enter not into temptation: the spirit, I trust, is willing, but the flesh, I see, is weak. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It looks as if the old man's spirit had found rest at last; don't it? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Amy stood a minute, turning the leaves in her hand, reading on each some sweet rebuke for all heartburnings and uncharitableness of spirit. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• In translating him into the language of modern thought, we might insensibly lose the spirit of ancient philosophy. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Well, Sammy,' said the gentleman, 'I hope you'll find your spirits rose by this here lively wisit. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Lady Bertram was very well pleased to have it so, and the young ladies were in spirits again. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• A hob was the flat part of the open hearth where water and spirits were warmed; and the small table, at which people sat when so engaged, was called a nob. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Not in his usual spirits? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• We wos a adjestin' our little differences, and I wos a-cheerin' her spirits and bearin' her up, so that I forgot to ask anythin' about it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Mrs. Reed soon rallied her spirits: she shook me most soundly, she boxed both my ears, and then left me without a word. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Was it all self-pity, loneliness, or low spirits? 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Yet it was a hard time for sensitive, high-spirited Jo, who meant so well and had apparently done so ill. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The broken-spirited, old, maternal grandfather was likewise subject to the little tyrant. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Through the deep throng it could pass but slowly; the spirited horses fretted in their curbed ardour. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• There is nothing more lovely, to which the heart more yearns than a free-spirited boy, gentle, brave, and generous. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• She was audaciously prejudiced in my favour, and quite unable to understand why I should have any misgivings, or be low-spirited about it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• If I was correct, I have got the most spirited horse on earth. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Her eldest was a boy of ten years old, a fine spirited fellow, who longed to be out in the world; but what could she do? 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• I strongly suspect him of having had a hand in spiriting away Lizzie. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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