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词汇 soul
释义 soul
noun
uk /səʊl/ us /soʊl/

soulnoun (SPIRIT)


B2[ C ]
the spiritual part of a person that some people believe continues to exist in some form after their body has died, or the part of a person that is not physical and experiences deep feelings and emotions: 灵魂;心性,心灵
She suffered greatly while she was alive, so let us hope her soul is now at peace.她生前受过很多苦,所以我们希望现在她的灵魂能得到安宁。
She's one of those people who puts their heart and soul into their work.
The priest said he was endangering his immortal soul.神父说他正在危及自己不朽的灵魂。
Some people think the soul, unlike the body, is incorruptible.有些人认为灵魂不像身体,是不会毁灭的。
Great literature is balsam to the soul.伟大的文学是心灵的慰藉。
I have a sense that we all do have a soul.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Souls, spirits & ghosts
apparition
astral plane
astral projection
aura
chi
ectoplasm
haunted
incorporeal
incubus
necromancer
necromancy
possessed
reincarnation
spectrally
spectre
succubus
séance
wight
wraith
zombie

soulnoun (DEEP FEELINGS)


[ U ]
the quality of a person or work of art that shows or produces deep good feelings: 精神;热情,真挚情感;高尚情操;气魄
no soulIf you can't enjoy this music you've got no soul.如果你不能欣赏这种音乐,说明你缺乏真挚的情感。
For me her paintings somehow lack soul.在我看来,她的绘画作品有些缺乏真情实感。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Feelings - general words
atmospherically
aura
come away
emotional
emotionalism
feeling
gut
himself
myself
needy
non-emotional
non-material
sensibility
sentience
susceptibility
team spirit
thirsty
trip
twinge
vibe

soulnoun (MUSIC)


A2[ U ]
→ soul music: (同soul music)
Hip-hop artists draw on the music of the past - the blues, R&B, soul, and jazz.
The Atlanta-born singer is doing her best to revive old-school soul, including the music of Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, and James Brown.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Types of music
Afrobeat
Afrobeats
ambient music
anthemic
atonal
downbeat
drum and bass
dubstep
early music
easy listening
Latinization
Latinize
Latinized
mariachi
melodically
symphonic
symphonically
techno
Tejano
Tex-Mex

soulnoun (PERSON)


B2[ C ]
a person of a stated type: 某种人
She's a happy little soul.她是个快乐的小孩。
Some poor soul had fallen 500 metres to their death.有些人不幸从500米高处掉下来摔死了。
 not a (living) soul
B2
no one: 没有人
By the time I arrived there wasn't a soul there.我到的时候,那儿一个人都没有。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

People in general
beggar
bird
bod
body
coot
creature
devil
fellow man/men
loiterer
lubber
man
mankind
number
party
peeps
person
person of interest
rogue
sod
stiff

soulnoun (BLACK CULTURE)


[ U ]US
a deep understanding of and being proud of the culture of African-American people
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Art & culture
aesthetic
Afrocentric
Afrofuturism
anti-cultural
art gallery
composition
compositional
compositionally
cultural
cultural capital
cultural theorist
cultural theory
culturally
folk art
highbrow
non-derivative
philistine
pop culture
popular culture
soul food

soul | American Dictionary


soul
noun
us/soʊl/

soulnoun (SPIRIT)


[ C ]
the part of a person that some people believe continues to exist in some form after the body has died, or the part of a person or thing that expresses the basic qualities that make it what it is:
May her soul rest in peace.
[ C ]
If you say that someone is the soul of a quality, you mean the person has that quality in a high degree:
He is the soul of honor, and would never intentionally try to deceive you.

soulnoun (BLACK CULTURE)


[ U ]
a deep understanding of and pride in the culture of African-Americans

soulnoun (PERSON)


[ C ]
a person of a stated type:
a happy soul
[ C ]
Soul can also mean any person, and is usually used in negative statements:
There wasn’t a soul around when we arrived at the beach.

Examples of soul


soul
But the frequent link between visiting a church and praying for the souls of people identified as buried there is suggestive.
Perhaps the best answer is that souls are individuated by having a ' thisness ' or haecceity.
Finally, the term also referred to the human soul as well as the "vital spirit" of all living things.
Executors probably acted as part of their responsibility to benefit the soul of a testator, although no grants obtained by them are specifically identified.
It could, of course, simply be that the voters did not understand the categorisation, or did not know what the genre 'soul' meant.
Its members, who were born with the caul, believed that four times a year their souls would leave their bodies to battle witches.
The first is the way of the ambitious "singing soul for music's sake" (6).
The prerequisite for good judgement in matters of the external world, and the divination of falsehood, is a knowledge and examination of the soul.
They belong instead to a spirit realm and, since they lack souls, they gain power over humans.
In the more conventional metaphor, the ilex, which figures the contrite soul, sheds its leaves to prepare for new growth.
A number of authors have suggested that we can account for the unity of consciousness by appealing to a substantial self (or soul).
If we human beings are a hylomorphic composite of soul and matter, then we are each not identical to our soul.
For some people worship corporeal objects, some intelligent and invisible spirits, such as the souls of the dead, and others.
Because the temptations and dangers would be minor, the process of soul-making would be gentler and slower.
The variety of these personalities and settings are taken on voluntarily, and are co-ordinated with the choices of personalities and settings of every other soul-entity.
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Collocations withsoul


soul

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human soul
According to him, color harmony may rest on a corresponding vibration in the humansoul.
immortal soul
We can only achieve true knowledge, therefore, in death, when the immortalsoul is freed from the body's fetters.
living soul
Man is a livingsoul and not a cog in a machine.
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