soul英音：[səul]美音：[sol]
名詞 n.
1.靈魂,心靈[C]
Christians believe that the soul lives forever.
基督徒相信靈魂永生.
2.精神;精力[U]
She puts her whole soul into work.
她把全部精力投入工作.
3.氣魄;熱情[U]
It's quite an attractive building,but somehow it hasn't got much soul.
那是一幢相當漂亮的建筑,但不知怎的它沒有多少生氣.
4.鬼魂[C]
He feared the soul of his deceased wife would haunt him.
他害怕亡妻的鬼魂會來纏擾他.
5.人[C]
You saw hardly a soul in the village.
在村子里,你幾乎看不到什么人.
6.精華,精髓;要素,核心[C][(+of)]
Brevity is the soul of wit.
言貴簡潔.
7.主腦;中心人物;推動力[the S][(+of)]
Philip is the life and soul of any party.
菲利浦是所有宴會的靈魂人物.
He was the soul of the enterprise.
他是這家企業(yè)的主腦.
8.化身,典范[the S][(+of)]
He is the soul of honor.
他是正直的化身.
9.【美】【口】黑人靈歌[U]
形容詞 a.
1.美國黑人的;美國黑人文化的[B]
He is a soul singer.