| 单词 | will to live |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswill to live will to live n. (a) Philosophy the drive within a being to promote its own existence; a drive to produce and continue the species; (b) the enjoyment of living, the desire for life, esp. in to lose the will to live (sometimes in trivial use). [In sense (a) after German Wille zum Leben (see will to life n.); the English term is probably influenced by the fact that will to is more usually followed by a verb than by a noun.] ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > vital principle > [noun] souleOE lifeOE spiritusOE bloodOE ghostOE life and soulOE quickship?c1225 quicknessc1230 breatha1300 spirita1325 spark1382 naturec1385 sparkle1388 livelinessa1398 rational soula1398 spiracle1398 animal spirit?a1425 vital spiritc1450 soul of the world1525 candle1535 fire1576 three souls1587 vitality?1592 candlelight1596 substance1605 vivacity1611 animality1615 vividity1616 animals1628 life spring1649 archeus1651 vital1670 spirituosity1677 springs of life1681 microcosmetor1684 vital force1702 vital spark (also flame)1704 stamen1718 vis vitae1752 prana1785 Purusha1785 jiva1807 vital force1822 heartbeat1828 world-soul1828 world-spirit1828 life energy1838 life force1848 ghost soul1869 will to live1871 biogen1882 ki1893 mauri1897 élan vital1907 orgone1942 the mind > will > [noun] > will as natural instinct or drive > specific vitativeness1843 will to live1871 will to power1896 the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > [noun] > joy of living living1809 Lebenslust1857 will to live1871 joie de vivre1889 1871 Jrnl. Anthropol. 1 324 That individual, according to which the will to live in the abstract, as realised in the whole species, feels a desire, proportionate to its intensity. 1886 R. B. Haldane & J. Kemp tr. A. Schopenhauer World as Will & Idea III. xliv. 343 What draws two individuals of different sex exclusively to each other with such power is the will to live, which exhibits itself in the whole species, and which here anticipates in the individual which these two can produce an objectification of its nature answering to its aims. 1903 G. K. Chesterton Robert Browning vi. 139 That really boisterous will to live which may be found in Martin Chuzzlewit. 1926 J. Galsworthy Silver Spoon i. xiv. 110 Humanity has got to save itself! To save itself—what was that, after all, but expression of ‘the will to live’? 1944 Life 30 Oct. 76/1 Many lost the will to live and virtually starved themselves to death. 1977 Times 2 Dec. 21/3 The [Crown] agents' ‘remarkable will to live’ pushed them into critical change in their financial operation in 1966. 2011 S. Brahmachari Artichoke Hearts 16 Before I've even opened my mouth, everyone knows how embarrassed I am, and after that I just clam up and lose the will to live. < as lemmas |
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