verve

英 [vɜːv]

美 [vɜːrv]

n.  精力; 激情; 热情; 热忱

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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

• No personal impulses can be felt in it; not a stroke has any verve.
  既见不到他个人的情感，也看不出有哪一笔下得生动有力。
• 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。
• What happened to personality, verve and humor?
  个性到哪里去了，活力和幽默？
• 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。
• A spirited quality in action or style; verve.
  行为或形式上的刚猛的品质；活力。
• 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。
• Through locale review and introduction of the three Korea excellent construction examples of space group of Korea building, kyongdong Presbyterian church, Cheongju national museum, it discusses the Oriental verve preserved in Korea modern construction, gives a use for reference to the design of modern construction.
  通过对空间综合建筑事务所大楼、京东长老会教堂、清州国立博物馆三个韩国优秀建筑实例的现场考察和介绍，探讨了韩国现代建筑中保持的东方神韵，对现代建筑的设计具有一定的借鉴意义。
• But for every piece that didn't quite come off, there was one with verve to spare.
  但对于每一件不太去掉，有一个与神韵空闲。
• 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。
• The audience rose to his verve and wit.
  观众们对他生气勃勃和富于机智的表演热烈喝彩。