| 释义 |
‖ Wesen rare.|ˈveːzən|
[Ger.]
a. A person's nature (as shown in characteristic behaviour).
1854–5Geo. Eliot in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) I. vi. 353 Fräulein Solmar is..probably between fifty and sixty, but of that agreeable Wesen which is so free from anything startling in person or manner. 1884Mrs. H. Ward Miss Bretherton i. 10 And then her Wesen is so attractive; she is such a frank, unspoilt, good-hearted creature.
b. The distinctive nature or essence of anything.
1959Listener 22 Oct. 689/2, I believe myself that it is only in the totality of its historic manifestations that Christianity can be understood, and that so long as it does survive, its Wesen, its nature, will continue to reveal new potentialities. |