| 英语单词 | spiritual |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['spɪrɪtʃuəl] 美 ['spɪrɪtʃuəl] |
| 中文释义 | adj.精神的;心灵的;与上帝有关的 n.(尤指美国南部黑人的)圣歌 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Many young people could not resist the spiritual pollution. (2) I care more about the spiritual life than the substantial life. (3) The monks were arraigned for not teaching things spiritual. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 很多年轻人不能抵制精神污染。 (2) 和物质生活相比,我更注重精神生活。 (3) 修道士们因不讲授有关心灵的道理而受到指责。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Spiritual things are concerned with sacred matters or religion, affecting the spirit or the soul. Spiritual entities like ghosts lack a material body or substance. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Spiritual is the adjective form of the word spirit, which comes from the Latin word for "breath," and means the thing that animates life. Spiritual can be used to talk about anything that goes beyond mere physical existence, from ghost spirits to religious feelings. As a noun, spiritual describes a religious song originating in the African-American culture of the American South. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ 形容词]精神(上)的;心灵(上)的 Spiritual means relating to people's thoughts and beliefs, rather than to their bodies and physical surroundings.
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2 [ADJ 形容词]宗教(上)的;宗教信仰(上)的 Spiritual means relating to people's religious beliefs.
3 [N-COUNT 可数名词]灵歌(原为美国黑奴所唱的一种宗教歌曲) A spiritual is a religious song of the type originally sung by black slaves in America. 4 [PHRASE 短语]精神家园;精神故乡 Your spiritual home is the place where you feel that you belong, usually because your ideas or attitudes are the same as those of the people who live there. [N inflects] |
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