英语单词

zeitgeist是什么意思

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.

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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.

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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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