名词

1. 灵魂
Your soul is the part of you that consists of your mind, character, thoughts, and feelings. Many people believe that your soul continues existing after your body is dead.

2. (民族或政治运动的)精神，精髓
The soul of a nation or a political movement is its basic nature and beliefs.

3. (某种类型的)人
You can refer to someone as a particular kind of soul when you are describing their character or condition.

4. (用于否定句中)一个人(也没有)
You use soul in negative statements like not a soul to mean nobody at all.

5. 灵乐(一种主要由美国黑人音乐家表演的流行音乐，源出福音唱诗及布鲁斯乐曲)
Soul or soul music is a type of pop music performed mainly by black American musicians. It developed from gospel and blues music and often expresses deep emotions.

6. (尤指居住在某一地方的)人
You can refer to the number of people who live in a particular place as souls .

7. 出卖灵魂;做违背良心的事
If you say that someone sells their soul, you mean that they do something immoral or bad in order to get something they want such as success or money.

8. to bare one's soul - see bare
body and soul - see body
to keep body and soul together - see body
the life and soul of the party - see life

1. a human being

e.g. there was too much for one person to do

Synonym: personindividualsomeonesomebodymortal

2. the human embodiment of something

e.g. the soul of honor

3. a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s

e.g. soul was politically significant during the Civil Rights movement

4. deep feeling or emotion

Synonym: soulfulness

5. the immaterial part of a person
the actuating cause of an individual life

Synonym: psyche