Spiritual

(noun.) a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States.

(adj.) lacking material body or form or substance; 'spiritual beings'; 'the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm'-Lewis Mumford .

(adj.) concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; 'a spiritual approach to life'; 'spiritual fulfillment'; 'spiritual values'; 'unearthly love' .

西莉亚手打

• She did not believe in the spiritual world--it was an affectation. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• This is a determinant which burrows beneath our ordinary classification of progressive and reactionary to the spiritual habits of a period. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• We have almost no spiritual weapons against classicalism: universities, churches, newspapers are by-products of a commercial success; we have no tradition of intellectual revolt. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• There, he thought, lay an opening towards spiritual, perhaps towards material rescue. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I fear, I know, that the couch needs spiritual as well as medical consolation. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• That I don't teach his opinions--which he calls spiritual religion; and that I have no time to spare. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Is THAT spiritual, her bullying, her conceit, her sordid materialism? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Ha, she spiritual--SPIRITUAL, she! 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• And was not Ursula's way of emotional intimacy, emotional and physical, was it not just as dangerous as Hermione's abstract spiritual intimacy? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Nice cutting is her function: she divides With spiritual edge the millet-seed, And makes intangible savings. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• In a kind of spiritual trance, she yielded, she gave way, and all was dark. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• They have a general belief in Manitous, or spiritual beings, one of them being spoken of as the Great Spirit. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Imaginative writers have supposed that he had great spiritual struggles, that he went out into the desert in agonies of doubt and divine desire. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The American college student has the gravity and mental habits of a Supreme Court judge; his wild oats are rarely spiritual; the critical, analytical habit of mind is distrusted. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Words that were scarcely uttered when their theme was announced as in faithful attendance below, desiring counsel on a spiritual matter. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

校对:路易斯