zeitgeist
英 ['za?tga?st]
美['za?tɡa?st]
- n. 時代思潮，時代精神
中文詞源
zeitgeist 時代精神
來自德語Zeitgeist，來自Zeit,時間，時代，詞源同tide,Geist,精神，詞源同ghost,
英文詞源
- 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."
雙語例句
- 1. He has caught the zeitgeist of rural life in the 1980s very well indeed.
- 事實上，他非常準確地描繪出了20世紀80年代鄉(xiāng)村生活的真實風貌。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The Zeitgeist of these centuries operated against the development of a pure science.
- 這幾世紀的時代精神阻礙了純粹科學的發(fā)展.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 3. Human full developments are the zeitgeist of socialist harmonious society.
- 人的全面發(fā)展是社會主義和諧社會的時代內涵.
來自互聯(lián)網
- 4. The title audacious but it captured the western zeitgeist.
- 其書名相當大膽,但抓住了西方的時代精神.
來自互聯(lián)網
- 5. Zeitgeist: The taste, outlook, and spirit characteristic of a period or generation.
- 出自 德文, 代表一種當代思潮或時代精神, 借用在網路上代表某一段時間的趨勢或徵兆.
來自互聯(lián)網