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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had, however, a happy mixture of pliability and perseverance in his na-ture; he was in form and spirit like a supple-jack脙聞yielding, but tough; though he bent, he never broke; and though he bowed beneath the slightest pressure, yet, the moment it was away jerk! he was as erect, and carried his head as high as ever.
-- But it is meet I should, in the true spirit of romantic story, give some account of the looks and equipments of my hero and his steed.
-- He had, in fact, been a favorite steed of his master's, the cho-leric Van Ripper, who was a furious rider, and had infused, very probably, some of his own spirit into the animal; for, old and broken-down as he looked, there was more of the lurking devil in him than in any young filly in the country.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the odes of Keats and of Wordsworth, a poem or two by Coleridge, a few more by Shelley, discovered vast realms of the spirit that none had explored before.
-- But how strange it was that the creative instinct should seize upon this dull stockbroker, to his own ruin, perhaps, and to the misfortune of such as were dependent on him; and yet no stranger than the way in which the spirit of God has seized men, powerful and rich, pursuing them with stubborn vigilance till at last, conquered, they have abandoned the joy of the world and the love of women for the painful austerities of the cloister.
-- And I think that was the vision that had remained with him always, dazzling his eyes so that he could not see the truth; and notwithstanding the brutality of fact, he continued to see with the eyes of the spirit an Italy of romantic brigands and picturesque ruins.
-- "You have no more spirit than a mongrel cur.
-- His appearance was wild and uncouth; there was aloofness in his eyes and sensuality in his mouth; he was big and strong; he gave the impression of untamed passion; and perhaps she felt in him, too, that sinister element which had made me think of those wild beings of the world's early history when matter, retaining its early connection with the earth, seemed to possess yet a spirit of its own.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Here's a moralist to talk of poisoned minds!Here's a generous spirit to scorn scraped-up shillings!'
-- 'But what,' said Mr Swiveller with a sigh, 'what is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather!What is the odds so long as the spirit is expanded by means of rosy wine, and the present moment is the least happiest of our existence!'
-- These opinions being equally incontrovertible with those he had already pronounced, he went on to inform us that Jamaica rum, though unquestionably an agreeable spirit of great richness and flavour, had the drawback of remaining constantly present to the taste next day; and nobody being venturous enough to argue this point either, he increased in confidence and became yet more companionable and communicative.
-- 'If he is!He is the greatest tyrant that every lived, she daren't call her soul her own, he makes her tremble with a word and even with a look, he frightens her to death, and she hasn't the spirit to give him a word back, no, not a single word.'
-- A third, who in the general confusion could secure no other listener, fastened herself upon a young woman still unmarried who happened to be amongst them, and conjured her, as she valued her own peace of mind and happiness to profit by this solemn occasion, to take example from the weakness of Mrs Quilp, and from that time forth to direct her whole thoughts to taming and subduing the rebellious spirit of man.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in the corridor the oppressive air, laden with the smell of tar and putrescence, saddened and dejected the spirit of every new-comer.
-- Whether he received an unpleasant letter from his mother, or was backward in his composition, or felt the ceaseless sadness of youth, it would suffice for him to see her and his spirit resumed its wonted good cheer.
-- But the ruling spirit in this crime was Maslova, who was the mouthpiece of the lowest phenomenon of decadence.
-- It was the consciousness that no act of Maslova could alter his love for her that raised his spirit and made him feel happy.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were just the half-bleached colour of the worms and things one sees preserved in spirit in a zoological museum.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Long John told the story from first to last, with a great deal of spirit and the most perfect truth.
-- It was so decided; loaded pistols were served out to all the sure men; Hunter, Joyce, and Redruth were taken into our confidence and received the news with less surprise and a better spirit than we had looked for, and then the captain went on deck and addressed the crew.
-- I lay down flat in the bottom of that wretched skiff and devoutly recommended my spirit to its Maker.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I went and came, hoping to calm my troubled spirit by constant movement.
-- I could not bear the brightness of it; while the captain, looking at it, seemed to envy the spirit of the tempest.
-- I listened with every sense, scarcely breathing; plunged, like Captain Nemo, in that musical ecstasy, which was drawing him in spirit to the end of life.
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