soul

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /səʊl/|[sɔʊɫ]|[sɒʊɫ]    美 /soʊl/|/səʉl/|/sɐʉl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality, often believed to live on after the person's death. countable,uncountable
    — 1836, Hans Christian Andersen (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), The Little Mermaid "Among the daughters of the air," answered one of them. "A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny. But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immortal soul, can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves.
  2. The spirit or essence of anything. countable,uncountable
    — From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
  3. Life, energy, vigor. countable,uncountable
    — That he vvants Algebra he muſt confeſs. / But not a ſoul to give our arms ſucceſs.
  4. Cultural consciousness and pride among people of African American heritage. countable,uncountable
  5. A strong positive feeling of intense sensitivity and emotional fervor conveyed especially by African American performers. countable,uncountable
  6. Soul music. countable,uncountable
  7. A person, especially as one among many. countable,uncountable
    — 18 January 1915, D. H. Lawrence, letter to William Hopkin I want to gather together about twenty souls and sail away from this world of war and squalor and found a little colony where there shall be no money but a sort of communism as far as necessaries of life go, and some real decency.
  8. An individual life. countable,uncountable
    — Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.
  9. A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To endow with a soul or mind. obsolete,transitive
  2. To feed or nourish. obsolete
    — During my Stay here, I was going to take Pot-Luck with Colonel Ingram, and accidentally meeting him in the Way, I told him I deſigned to ſoul a Plate with him, [...]
  3. To beg on All Soul's Day.
    — All Souls' Day was celebrated by souling, a custom going back to pre-Reformation days: soul cakers and mummers toured the village begging for a soul cake — a plain, round, flat cake seasoned with spices.
形容词 adj.
  1. Characteristic of or pertaining to African American culture. not-comparable
    — soul music

词形变化

souls plural sowl alternative,archaic soule alternative,obsolete sowl alternative,archaic soule alternative,obsolete souls present,singular,third-person souling participle,present souled participle,past souled past sowl alternative,archaic soule alternative,obsolete souls present,singular,third-person souling participle,present souled participle,past souled past

词汇关系

近义词
gist
衍生词
after one's own soul album-oriented soul All Souls' Day animal soul bare one's soul bless my soul blue-eyed soul body and soul brevity is the soul of wit brown-eyed soul cut away one's soul cybersoul dead soul deep soul desoul ensoul God rest her soul God rest his soul God rest their soul heart and soul hip hop soul insoul keep body and soul together keep soul and body together kindred soul lay bare one's soul life and soul of the party Lord rest his soul lost soul may God have mercy on your soul neo soul neo-soul northern soul not a living soul not a soul object-soul old soul oversoul pour one's soul out pour out one's soul psychedelic soul rest his soul rest one's soul sell one's soul sell one's soul to the devil shiver my soul soca soulache soul-ale soul bell soul blues soul-blues soulboy soul brother soul cake soul-cake soul conjecture soulcraft soul-crushing soul-crushingly soul-destroying souled soul food soul fragment soulful soulfully soulfulness soulical soulish soul kiss soul knell soulless soullike soul link soul loss soul-love soulmark Soulmass soulmate soul mate soul music soul patch soulrending soul roll Soulsborne soulscape soulscot soul search soul-search soul-searcher soul searching soul-searching soul-shaking soulsick soul sister soul sleep Soulslike soulster soul-stirring soul-sucking soul theorem soul tie soulular soulward soulwinner soulwinning sowkin the eyes are the window to the soul tripartite soul unsoul upon my soul white soul world-soul world soul world's soul dark night of the soul besoul
相关词
mind spirit

词源

词源 1
From Middle English soule, sowle, saule, sawle, from Old English sāwol (“soul, life, spirit, being”), from Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu, from Proto-Germanic *saiwalō (“soul”), of an uncertain ultimate origin (see there for further information).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots saul, sowel (“soul”), Saterland Frisian Seele (“soul”), West Frisian siel (“soul”), Alemannic German Seel (“soul”), Central Franconian Siel (“soul”), Dutch ziel (“soul”), German Seele (“soul”), German Low German Seel (“soul”), Luxembourgish Séil (“soul, spirit”), Vilamovian zejł, zəjł, zyił (“soul”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌻𐌰 (saiwala, “soul”). Scandinavian homonyms seem to have been borrowed from Old Saxon sēola. Modern Danish sjæl (“soul”), Icelandic sál (“soul”), Norwegian Bokmål sjel (“soul”), Norwegian Nynorsk sjel, sål (“soul”), Swedish själ (“soul”), Finnish sielu (“soul”) may have come from Old English sāwol.
词源 2
Borrowed from French souler (“to satiate”).
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