| 单词 | springs of life |
| 释义 | > as lemmassprings of life (c) springs of life: that which gives, motivates, or inspires liveliness or an enthusiasm for life.Frequently influenced by sense 1a or sense 1c. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > vital principle > [noun] souleOE lifeOE spiritusOE bloodOE ghostOE life and soulOE quickship?c1225 quicknessc1230 breatha1300 spirita1325 spark1382 naturec1385 sparkle1388 livelinessa1398 rational soula1398 spiracle1398 animal spirit?a1425 vital spiritc1450 soul of the world1525 candle1535 fire1576 three souls1587 vitality?1592 candlelight1596 substance1605 vivacity1611 animality1615 vividity1616 animals1628 life spring1649 archeus1651 vital1670 spirituosity1677 springs of life1681 microcosmetor1684 vital force1702 vital spark (also flame)1704 stamen1718 vis vitae1752 prana1785 Purusha1785 jiva1807 vital force1822 heartbeat1828 world-soul1828 world-spirit1828 life energy1838 life force1848 ghost soul1869 will to live1871 biogen1882 ki1893 mauri1897 élan vital1907 orgone1942 the world > existence and causation > causation > cause or reason > [phrase] > causes or reasons springs of life1681 1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar v. ii. 73 Every slackn'd fiber drops its hold, Like Nature letting down the Springs of Life. 1728 J. Thomson Spring 21 While sickly Damps, and cold Autumnal Fogs Sat not pernicious on the Springs of Life. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 112 A body jaded and wrack'd off to the lees by constant repeated over-draughts of pleasure, which had done the work of sixty winters on his springs of life. 1819 W. Scott Let. 6 May (1933) V. 376 A grief of that calm and concentrated kind which..gradually wasted the springs of life. 1883 P. Johnson Epitome Life Late Prince Consort v. 91 'Twould break the springs of life were it revealed. 1986 J. F. Gracey Meat Hygiene (ed. 8) vii. 129/1 Mental functions, rightly viewed, are but the servants of the impulses and emotions by which we live, and these, the springs of life, are surely diencephalic in their neurological location. 2003 Daily Tel. 8 July 21 For her, cerebralism denied ‘the sacred springs of life, which are the imagination and the heart.’ < as lemmas |
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