verve

英 [vɜːv]

美 [vɜːrv]

n.  精力; 激情; 热情; 热忱

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Collins.1 / BNC.20504 / COCA.21644

牛津词典

noun

• 精力；激情；热情；热忱
  energy, excitement or enthusiasm
  1. It was a performance of verve and vitality.
     这是一场充满激情与活力的演出。

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 活力;热情;激情
  Verveis lively and forceful enthusiasm.
  1. He looked for the dramatic, like the sunset in this painting, and painted it with great verve...
     他追求画面的恢宏壮观——就像这幅画里的落日——而且创作时充满激情。
  2. She revelled in big MGM musicals with their colour and verve.
     她酷爱米高梅电影公司制作的色彩绚丽、激情四溢的大型歌舞片。

英英释义

noun

• an energetic style
  Synonym:vitality

双语例句

• What happened to personality, verve and humor?
  个性到哪里去了，活力和幽默？
• More important is a verve, have intention, provide culture, provide temperament, be Chinese old culture is successive with continuance, it is contemporary urbanite turns over uncut jade to put in true concept's charge, also be the pursuit of modern opposite vivid grade.
  更重要的是具神韵，具内涵，具文化，具气质，是中国古老文化的继续与延续，是现代都市人反璞归真理念，也是现代人对生活品位的追求。
• Mr Paulson is an impressive man but has shown little verve for politics.
  保尔森是一位优秀的人士，但他没有展现出应有的政治智慧。
• She delivered her speech with tremendous wit and verve.
  她以非常的才智和热情发表了演讲。
• In her novels, Yan Geling has been seeking a language which is full of life and which is not to lose the verve of Chinese language in the process of translation.
  严歌苓的小说一直在寻找一种不会在翻译过程中流失中国文字的神韵、生命的文字语言。
• If the US economy proved unable to withstand even this featherweight touch, market optimists would lose their verve.
  如果美国经济被证明连这种超轻量级的压力都无法承受，市场乐观者可能会方寸大乱。
• A spirited quality in action or style; verve.
  行为或形式上的刚猛的品质；活力。
• And the great verve formed by the development of this sprouts became his major standard of measuring personality.
  而四端的扩充形成的“浩然之气”，则成为孟子衡量人格美的主要标准。
• Do your best to leverage this verve as it comes, rather than frittering it away on things like furniture shopping.
  当你精力充沛时，尽你最大努力来协调你的活力，别浪费于在家具购物上。
• Based on cocktails'characteristics, this paper expounds their mixing technology in terms of verve, shape and form.
  文章结合鸡尾酒的特点，从其“神”“体”“形”三方面阐析了鸡尾酒调制的“融和”技艺。