ethos

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈiːθɒs/    美 /ˈiθɑs/|/ˈiθoʊs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture, or movement.
    — To slip past censors, Chinese bloggers have become masters of comic subterfuge, cloaking their messages in protective layers of irony and satire. This is not a new concept, but it has erupted so powerfully that it now defines the ethos of the Internet in China.
  2. A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker invokes their authority, competence or expertise in an attempt to persuade others that their view is correct. rhetoric
  3. The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character, as influenced by the ethos (character or fundamental values) of a people, rather than emotional situations or individual character traits in a narrow sense; opposed to pathos.

词形变化

ethe plural ethea plural ethoses plural

词汇关系

相关词
etheic ethics ethogram ethography ethoi ethologic ethological ethologist ethology ethopœia ethopoetic ethosed ethoses logos pathos zeitgeist

词源

From Ancient Greek ἦθος (êthos, “character; custom, habit”). Cognate to Sanskrit स्वधा (svadhā́, “habit, custom”).
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