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单词 the life of
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the life (and soul) of (something, esp. a party)
a. In extended use: something which represents the cause or source of living or of vitality; a vivifying or animating principle; a person who or that which makes or keeps a thing alive (in various senses); ‘soul’; ‘essence’. In modern use chiefly in the life (and soul) of (something, esp. a party).In quot. 1715: (poetic (apparently an isolated use)) = lifeblood n. 1.
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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
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) x. 262 Þæs lichaman lif is seo sawul, & þære saule lif is god.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 126 (MED) Charite, þet is, þe guodnesse and þe worþ and þet lyf of þe oþre uirtues.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. iv. 13 Hold discipline..for it is thi lyf [a1425 L.V. lijf, L. vita].
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 1692 (MED) Als þe saule es lyf of þe body, Swa þe lyfe of þe saule es God allmyghty.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Gouernaunce of Princis (1993) xxxii. 109 The wyne, quhilk is lyf and hele to mankynde.
a1530 T. Lupset Treat. Charitie (1533) f. 4 If you nowe wyll considre, what is the founteyne lyfe and soule of mans vertue, the spacinge and rote of al his good werkes.
1568 E. Dering Sparing Restraint 110 As the common bread, which we eate daily, is the life of the body: so this bread supersubstantiall is the life of the soule.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. ii. 193 Why there you toucht the life of our designe. View more context for this quotation
a1618 W. Raleigh Disc. Invention Shipping 17 in Judicious & Select Ess. (1650) The length of the Cable, is the life of the Ship in all extreamities.
1649 Εἰκων Βασιλικη 80 That fiduciary and fervent application of their spirits wherein consists the very life and soul of Prayer.
1683 T. Tryon Way to Health (1697) iv. 79 Water and Air are the true Life and Power of every Being.
1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 198 'Tis the Life of fine Water-works to be well fed.
1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. iv. 609 The warm Life came issuing from the Wound.
1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 73 These indeed were the Life and Soul of all the rest, and it was to their Courage that all the rest ow'd the Resolution they shewd.
1797 R. M. Roche Children of Abbey (ed. 2) I. xvii. 309 They had assembled a number of their neighbours, among whom were a little fat priest, called father O'Gallaghan, considered the life of every party, and a blind piper.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. vii. xiii. 184 Ballets incidental to the piece are the very life and soul of a play.
1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park II. i. 9 Sir Thomas was indeed the life of the party. View more context for this quotation
1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xliii. 492 Mr. Pecksniff's young gentlemen were the life and soul of the Dragon.
1897 ‘M. Corelli’ Ziska xv. 324 Armand Gervase..was making himself the life and soul of everything at the Mena House Hotel.
1932 L. Golding Magnolia St. iii. ix. 595 He's very much the official life-and-soul-of-the-party.
1939 Collier's 21 Jan. 40/1 The other new words came in a steady flood: Big time..the borscht circuit (Catskill Mt. summer resorts booking life-of-the-party m.c.'s).
1970 G. Greer Female Eunuch 33 When the life of the party wants to express the idea of a pretty woman in mime, he undulates his two hands.
2002 N. Lebrecht Song of Names iv. 85 ‘She wasn't always such a sourpuss,’ explained my aunt... ‘Before the last war,’ she confided, ‘Violet was quite the life and soul of the soirée, singing silly ballads and larking the night away.’
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