zeitgeist
英['zaɪtgaɪst]美['zaɪtɡaɪst]
- n. 时代思潮，时代精神
中文词源
zeitgeist 时代精神
来自德语Zeitgeist，来自Zeit,时间，时代，词源同tide,Geist,精神，词源同ghost,
英文词源
- zeitgeist (n.)
- 1848, from German Zeitgeist (Herder, 1769), "spirit of the age," literally "time-spirit," from Zeit "time" (see tide (n.)) + Geist "spirit" (see ghost (n.)). Carlyle has it as a German word in "Sartor Resartus" (1840) and translates it as "Time-Spirit."
双语例句
- 1. He has caught the zeitgeist of rural life in the 1980s very well indeed.
- 事实上，他非常准确地描绘出了20世纪80年代乡村生活的真实风貌。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. The Zeitgeist of these centuries operated against the development of a pure science.
- 这几世纪的时代精神阻碍了纯粹科学的发展.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 3. Human full developments are the zeitgeist of socialist harmonious society.
- 人的全面发展是社会主义和谐社会的时代内涵.
来自互联网
- 4. The title audacious but it captured the western zeitgeist.
- 其书名相当大胆,但抓住了西方的时代精神.
来自互联网
- 5. Zeitgeist: The taste, outlook, and spirit characteristic of a period or generation.
- 出自 德文, 代表一种当代思潮或时代精神, 借用在网路上代表某一段时间的趋势或徵兆.
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