单词 | vigor |
释义 | vig·or 1. < the vigor of youth > < the vigor of a storm > 2. < a plant grows with vigor > 3. < the vigor of an argument > < commanding a troop with vigor > < a drug that acts with vigor > 4. < laws that are still in vigor > Synonyms: < the physical and intellectual vigor and toughness which the trial lawyer needs — Robert Hale > < the vigor and inventiveness that American business has shown in many other fields — Defense Against Recession > < burst into leaf with exceptional vigor — American Guide Series: Maryland > < a wonderfully witty book, with an intellectual vigor — Paul Pickrel > vim stresses the display of usually enthusiastic energy in doing or making something < enter into an enterprise with a good deal of vim > < the vim and energy with which he spoke was exhausting to the audience > spirit stresses a driving vivacity, liveliness, or animated interest usually deriving from disposition or temperament < enter into a campaign with spirit > < on the eve of a match the players worked up spirit by celebrations — American Guide Series: Florida > dash implies a bold, devil-may-care force, often tending to stress the impact upon the observer, reader, or listener < the picture really captures the obsessive dash of professional airmen — Time > < their lineaments and general contours to be drawn with Düreresque vigor and dash — Thomas Hardy > < his study … aspiring to make up in liveliness, dash, and clarity what it is bound to lack in analytical rigor — Clifton Fadiman > < lack of oratorical dash — N.F.Busch > esprit is a quality of interest or energy of mind or disposition more subtly manifest than spirit and often strongly implying active cleverness or wit < there are men of esprit who are excessively exhausting to some people — O.W.Holmes †1894 > < acquire the industrial esprit that could spark general economic advance — David Riesman > verve suggests strongly a characteristic or peculiar active energy or interest < writing with the verve and gusto dear to the mid-nineteenth century — Mary Ross > < both sing with shattering verve — Herbert Weinstock > < the dancers performed with verve — Douglas Watt > < tells his story … with unquenchable verve and enthusiasm — Times Literary Supplement > < recited King Henry V's speech before the battle of Agincourt with such verve that she brought the house down — Bruce Marshall > punch stresses forcefulness of impact or immediate effectiveness < a speech with very little punch > < the poem which I have chosen seems to me … to be crisp in its language and also to carry a considerable punch — Louis MacNeice > < coconut sap is poured to make toddy — which looks like milk but has a punch — New York Times Magazine > éLAN stresses a spirit or quality marked by ardor or spiritedness in action < marching in perfect formation and with military élan — Philip Hamburger > < clears his hurdles with agility and élan — Times Literary Supplement > < a real victory would give them a great élan for the sterner tests yet to come — D.D.Eisenhower > drive stresses an unremitting purposive action or forcefulness resulting from a large reservoir of energy < lack the drive, the initiative, and the sense of aggression necessary to carry out a planned crime of violence — D.W.Maurer & V.H.Vogel > < this titan's spirit which gave such drive and strength to the mightiest of his plays — John Mason Brown > < enough drive to achieve success in almost any field > |
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