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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I said in one of my letters, my dear Margaret, that I 18 Frankensteinshould find no friend on the wide ocean; yet I have found a man who, before his spirit had been broken by misery, I should have been happy to have possessed as the brother of my heart.
-- Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature.
-- Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery and be overwhelmed by disappointments, yet when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.
-- He came like a protecting spirit to the poor girl, who committed herself to his care; and after the inter-ment of his friend he conducted her to Geneva and placed her under the protection of a relation.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As far back as Scarlett could remember, her mother had always been the same, her voice soft and sweet whetherin praising or in reproving, her manner efficient and unruffled despite the daily emergencies of Gerald's turbulenthousehold, her spirit always calm and her back unbowed, even in the deaths of her three baby sons.
-- "They haven't any more spirit than a rabbit.
-- What a lonely feeling it was and she had never been lonely either in body or spirit before.
-- Something in his lookchallenged her spirit and brought her strength back in a surge of dislike.
-- There was something breathtakingin the grace of his big body which made his very entrance into a room like an abrupt physical impact, something in theimpertinence and bland mockery of his dark eyes that challenged her spirit to subdue him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His spirit inspired me with great respect.
-- Whether myrmidons of Justice, specially sent down from London, would be lying in ambush behind the gate;--whether Miss Havisham, preferring to take personal vengeance for an outrage done to her house, might rise in those grave-clothes of hers, draw a pistol, and shoot me dead:--whether suborned boys--a numerous band of mercenaries--might be engaged to fall upon me in the brewery, and cuff me until I was no more;--it was high testimony to my confidence in the spirit of the pale young gentleman, that I never imagined him accessory to these retaliations; they always came into my mind as the acts of injudicious relatives of his, goaded on by the state of his visage and an indignant sympathy with the family features.
-- Now it appeared to him (Pumblechook) that if that capital were got into the business, through a sleeping partner, sir,--which sleeping partner would have nothing to do but walk in, by self or deputy, whenever he pleased, and examine the books,--and walk in twice a year and take his profits away in his pocket, to the tune of fifty per cent,--it appeared to him that that might be an opening for a young gentleman of spirit combined with property, which would be worthy of his attention.
-- So, Estella and I went out into the garden by the gate through which I had strayed to my encounter with the pale young gentleman, now Herbert; I, trembling in spirit and worshipping the very hem of her dress; she, quite composed and most decidedly not worshipping the hem of mine.
-- Or do you kiss my hand in the same spirit in which I once let you kiss my cheek?"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just then she looked out of the window and saw him coming, and it seemed as if an evil spirit entered into her, for she snatched the apple out of her little daughter's hand, and said, 'You shall not have one before your brother.'
-- The little boy now came in, and the evil spirit in the wife made her say kindly to him, 'My son, will you have an apple?'
-- And as he bent over to do so, the evil spirit urged her, and crash!
-- In 340 Grimms' Fairy Talesthe meantime it struck twelve, and the spirit disappeared, so that the youth stood in darkness.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I introduced Did-248 Gulliver's Travelsymus and Eustathius to Homer, and prevailed on him to treat them better than perhaps they deserved, for he soon found they wanted a genius to enter into the spirit of a poet.
-- I descended so low, as to desire some English yeoman 254 Gulliver's Travelsof the old stamp might be summoned to appear; once so famous for the simplicity of their manners, diet, and dress; for justice in their dealings; for their true spirit of liberty; for their valour, and love of their country.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Sparsit shook her head, still in her highly superior manner, and a little changed the small cough coughing now, as if the spirit of prophecy rose within her, but had better be coughed down.
-- The evil spirit of his life had flitted away again, months ago, and he had heard no more of her since.
-- And still the forced spirit which the whelp had plucked up, throve with him.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She never really touched the spirit of the wood itself...if it had any such nonsensical thing.
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