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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The relatives had not forgotten that the "Waidoua," the spirit of the dead, lives on mortal food, as the body did in this life.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After you left I sent down to Stamford's for the Ordnance map of this portion of the moor, and my spirit has hovered over it all day.
-- With rows of flaring torches to light it up, and the colour and rude hilarity of an old-time banquet, it might have softened; but now, when two black-clothed gentlemen sat in the little circle of light thrown by a shaded lamp, one's voice became hushed and one's spirit subdued.
-- The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul, its vastness, and also its grim charm.
-- He might have been the very spirit of that terrible place.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Imagine what must have been going on in that man's mind at such a moment; what dreadful convulsions his whole spirit must have endured; it is an outrage on the soul that's what it is.
-- All these concessions and rebuffs of fortune, of late, had wounded his spirit severely, and his temper had become extremely irrita-ble, his wrath being generally quite out of proportion to the cause.
-- I think the poet desired to embody in this one picture the whole spirit of medieval chivalry and the platonic love of a pure and high-souled knight.
-- Of course it's all an ideal, and in the 'poor knight' that spirit reached the utmost limit of asceticism.
-- It was impossible to discern in her now anything but a deep feeling for the spirit of the poem which she had undertaken to interpret.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then she went up close to him and said, 'Fear not, Diomed, to do battle with the Trojans, for I have set in your heart the spirit of your knightly father Tydeus.
-- When he went all unattended as envoy to the city of Thebes among the Cadmeans, I bade him feast in their houses and be at peace; but with that high spirit which was ever present with him, he challenged the youth of the Cadmeans, and at once beat them in all that he attempted, so mightily did I help him.
-- You have the intolerable and stubborn spirit of your mother Juno: it is all I can do to manage her, and it is her doing that you are now in this plight: still, I cannot let you remain longer in such great pain; you are my own off-spring, and it was by me that your mother conceived you; if, however, you had been the son of any other god, you are so destructive that by this time you should have been lying lower than the Titans.'
-- 'What would you have', said he, 'daughter of great Jove, that your proud spirit has sent you hither from Olympus?
-- The others quaked and quailed, but my high spirit bade me fight him though none other would venture; I was the youngest man of them all; but when I fought him Minerva vouchsafed me victory.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Out he came, not noticing Fearenside's dog, who was sniffing in a dilettante spirit at Hall's legs.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Montgom-ery told me that the Law, especially among the feline Beast People, became oddly weakened about nightfall; that then the animal was at its strongest; that a spirit of adventure sprang up in them at the dusk, when they would dare things they never seemed to dream about by day.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I never had spirit enough to run out into the middle of the room.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had recently seen a chosen army from that country, which, reverencing as a mother, they had blindly believed invincible an army led by a chief who had been selected from a crowd of trained warriors, for his rare military en-dowments, disgracefully routed by a handful of French and Indians, and only saved from annihilation by the coolness and spirit of a Virginian boy, whose riper fame has since diffused itself, with the steady influence of moral truth, to the uttermost confines of Christendom.
-- 'It is the spirit of my nobleminded Cora that leads them, Duncan', he said, 'and I will not balk it.
-- at length broke from his compressed and trembling lips; 'ay, and they bear the spirit of Christianity; what might be right and proper in a redskin, may be sinful in a man who has not even a cross in blood to plead for his ignorance.
-- The open sympathy of the listeners stirred the spirit of the votary of music, whose voice regained its richness and volume, without losing that touching softness which proved its secret charm.
-- 'No; Magua is a man, and not a fool; such as you never open their lips to the burning stream: the Great Spirit has given you wisdom!'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon, and juicy relishing ham; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its giz- zard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages; and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side dish, with uplifted claws, as if crav- ing that quarter which his chivalrous spirit disdained to ask while living.
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