spirit是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 精神； 志气； (pl. ) 情绪， 心情； (pl. ) 酒精，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this the spirit raised a frightful cry, and shook its chain with such a dismal and appalling noise, that Scrooge held on tight to his chair, to save himself from falling in a swoon.
-- 'It is required of every man,' the Ghost returned, 'that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.
-- My spirit never walked beyond our counting-house mark me! in life my spirit never roved beyond the narrow limits of our mon-ey-changing hole; and weary journeys lie before me!'
-- Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness.
-- But they and their spirit voices faded together; and the night became as it had been when he walked home.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The task of re-calling him from the vagrancy into which he always sank when he had spoken, was like recalling some very weak per-son from a swoon, or endeavouring, in the hope of some 58 A tale of two citiesdisclosure, to stay the spirit of a fast-dying man.
-- those were not tears all of agony that wetted his young mother's cheek, as the spirit departed from her embrace that had been en-trusted to it.
-- He was not suspected or brought in question, any more than if he had indeed been recalled to life some eighteen years before, or were a Spirit moving among mortals.
-- Not an emigrant, he hoped, within the sense and spirit of the law.
-- With a solemn interest in the lighted windows where the people were going to rest, forgetful through a few calm hours of the horrors surrounding them; in the towers of the churches, where no prayers were said, for the popular revul-sion had even travelled that length of self-destruction from years of priestly impostors, plunderers, and profligates; in the distant burial-places, reserved, as they wrote upon the gates, for Eternal Sleep; in the abounding gaols; and in the streets along which the sixties rolled to a death which had become so common and material, that no sorrowful story of a haunting Spirit ever arose among the people out of all the working of the Guillotine; with a solemn interest in the whole life and death of the city settling down to its short nightly pause in fury; Sydney Carton crossed the Seine again for the lighter streets.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The watchman's spirit understood the language of the in-habitants of the moon pretty well.
-- He sat lifeless on the steps: the morning-star,* that is to say, the heavy wooden staff, headed with iron spikes, and which had nothing else in common with its sparkling brother in the sky, had glided from his hand; while his eyes were fixed with glassy stare on the moon, looking for the good old fellow of a spirit which still haunted it.
-- Now that would be a very pretty joke, if the spirit when it came back and looked for the body in East Street, were not to find one.
-- And up he flew into the green roof and sang; but in the song there was no poetry, for the spirit of the poet was gone.
-- 'Travelling would be agreeable enough,' said he groaning, 'if one only had no body, or could send it to rest while the spirit went on its pilgrimage unhindered, whither the voice within might call it.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could not pluck up spirit to make any answer.
-- But every time he began talking to her, he felt that the spirit of evil and deceit, which had taken possession of her, had possession of him too, and he talked to her in a tone quite unlike that in which he had meant to talk.
-- she wondered, and the thought of all that might come of such a chance struck her as so awful and terrible that, without dwelling on it for a moment, she went down to meet him with a bright and radiant face; and conscious of the presence of that spirit of falsehood and deceit in herself that she had come to know of late, she abandoned herself to that spirit and began talking, hardly knowing what she was saying.
-- was the first word the spirit of falsehood prompted her to utter; "and now we'll go together.
-- And the prince with surprising ease fell in with the Russian spirit, smashed trays full of crockery, sat with a gypsy girl on his knee, and seemed to be asking--what more, and does the whole Russian spirit consist in just this?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Up to his arrival at Bombay, he had entertained hopes that their journey would end there; but, now that they were plainly whirling across India at full speed, a sudden change had come over the spirit of his dreams.
-- It mattered not that they made him sea-sick he made no account of this inconvenience; and, whilst his body was writhing under their effects, his spirit bounded with hopeful exultation.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He noted that Madeline was not only a rare and understanding spirit but also an extraordinarily desirable woman--fresh color, tender eyes, adorable slope from shoulder to side.
-- Ordinarily it closed at eight, but tonight it kept open till one, and developed a spirit of almost lascivious mirth.
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