| 释义 |
mana|ˈmɑːnə|
[Maori.]
Power in general, authority, prestige; spec. in primitive religion, an impersonal supernatural power which can be associated with people or with objects and which can be transmitted or inherited.
1843E. Dieffenbach Trav. N.Z. II. iii. ix. 371/2 Mana—command, authority, power. 1855R. Taylor Te Ika a Maui 279 The natives..feel..that with the land, their mana, or power, has gone likewise. 1858Richmond–Atkinson Papers (1960) I. 367 The most loyal reverence for the Queen's name and ‘mana’..[is] to be found in Ngapuhi. 1877R. H. Codrington Let. in Max Müller Lect. Orig. & Growth Relig. (1878) 54 There is a belief in a force altogether distinct from physical power, which acts in all kinds of ways for good and evil, and which it is of the greatest advantage to possess or control. This is Mana. a1910W. James Some Probl. Philos. (1911) i. 17 What made things act was the mysterious energy in them, and the more awful they were, the more of this mana they possessed. 1920Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Apr. 264/2 Notions of the type of mana or orenda are of ‘a nascently philosophic order’. 1937R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory xii. 204 It is not merely spirits and deities that loom as sacred, but also the impersonal force Melanesians call ‘mana’. 1951R. Firth Elem. Social Organiz. vii. 215 The data accumulated on the character and functions of..principles of mana and taboo..have enabled large regions of human religious experience to be mapped out on a comparative basis. 1959Chambers's Encycl. IX. 47/2 It is this rudimentary concept of a mystic, quasi-impersonal force connected with anything mysterious and arresting that finds expression in mana. 1965Listener 2 Dec. 920/2 Warhol has always provided a good example of the kind of mana which emanates from certain chosen individuals in modern society. 1975H. McCloy Minotaur Country v. 53 He has mana... The thing most people think they're talking about when they say charisma.
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1924W. B. Selbie Psychol. Relig. 208 A fearful cringing before some mysterious mana-charged object. 1937Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Oct. 197 Their religious beliefs centre round a concept of magic of the ‘mana’ type i.e. vague, abstract, impersonal power. 1949Koestler Promise & Fulfilment ii. v. 274 He has a mana-circle in Tel Aviv. |