喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture drawing a line down the middle of a person: on one side the body and everything you can touch — food, money, a house; on the other side what goes on inside — meaning, peace, what a life is for. Spiritual points at that second side. Sometimes that inner side is organised by a religion, sometimes it is not, and English lets the word cover both.

可以想成：在一個人身上畫一條線。線的一邊是身體和摸得到的東西——食物、錢、房子；另一邊是裡面的那些事——意義、平靜、…更多收起可以想成：在一個人身上畫一條線。線的一邊是身體和摸得到的東西——食物、錢、房子；另一邊是裡面的那些事——意義、平靜、活著是為了什麼。spiritual 指的是後面那一邊。那一邊有時候有宗教在幫忙整理，有時候完全沒有，而英文這個字兩種都收，所以看到它先別急著翻成「宗教的」，要看上下文講的是內在，還是真的在講信仰。

From the picture

跟宗教有關的

內在那一邊如果有一套信仰在照顧，這個字就跟著指向那套信仰本身——所以同一個字可以偏內心，也可以偏宗教。

religious · adjective · B2

Connected with religion or with the beliefs of a religion.

宗教的

Also in this word

inner/soul-related · adjective · B2

Relating to your inner feelings and spirit, rather than to your body or the things around you.

心靈的

原始詞典資料9 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Spiritualnoun

  • 1

    historicalChristianityA member of a branch of the Franciscan order that advocated simple dress and renounced the owning of property.

    • But in the years that followed, the cause of the Spirituals became championed by far more substantial figures within the church.

spiritualadj/ˈspɪɹɪtʃʊəl/

  • 1

    Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.

    • Respect towards ancestors is an essential part of Thai spiritual practice.
  • 2

    Of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred, pure; (Christianity, specifically) inspired by the Holy Spirit.

    • Brethren, if a man bee ouertaken in a fault: yee which are spirituall, restore such a one in the spirit of meeknesse, considering thy selfe least thou also be tempted.
    • I suppose that’s not surprising, given the spiritual milieu in which I grew up. My mother gasped in sorrow at any news of a bombing in Israel and appropriately “oy veyed” when a Jew was accused of a crime, but she couldn’t tell you what the Shabbat blessing meant.
  • 3

    Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural.

    • Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.
  • 4

    Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal.

    • a spiritual substance or being
    • It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
  • 5

    Of or relating to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.

  • 6

    Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical.

    • the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation

spiritualnoun/ˈspɪɹɪtʃʊəl/

  • 1

    A Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song.

  • 2

    Any spiritual function, office, or affair.

    • He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。