psyche

英 ['sa?k?] 美['sa?ki]

GRE低頻詞擴(kuò)展詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?psyches;

psyche 精神，靈魂，心靈

來自希臘語psykhe,精神，靈魂，心理，來自psykhein,呼吸，吹風(fēng)，來自PIE*bhes,呼吸，吹風(fēng)，可能來自擬聲詞。

psyche: psyche: [17] Like Latin animus (source of English animal), Greek psūkhé started out meaning ‘breath’ and developed semantically to ‘soul, spirit’. English adopted it via Latin psychē in the mid-17th century, but it did not really begin to come into its own until the middle of the 19th century, when the development of the sciences of the mind saw it pressed into service in such compound forms as psychology (first recorded in 1693, but not widely used until the 1830s) and psychiatry (first recorded in 1846), which etymologically means ‘healing of the mind’.
=> psychiatry, psychology
psyche (n.): 1640s, "animating spirit," from Latin psyche, from Greek psykhe "the soul, mind, spirit; breath; life, one's life, the invisible animating principle or entity which occupies and directs the physical body; understanding" (personified as Psykhe, the beloved of Eros), akin to psykhein "to blow, cool," from PIE root *bhes- "to blow, to breathe" (source also of Sanskrit bhas-), "Probably imitative" [Watkins].

Also in ancient Greek, "departed soul, spirit, ghost," and often represented symbolically as a butterfly or moth. The word had extensive sense development in Platonic philosophy and Jewish-influenced theological writing of St. Paul (compare spirit (n.)). Meaning "human soul" is from 1650s. In English, psychological sense "mind," is attested by 1910.

1. His exploration of the myth brings insight into the American psyche.: 他對這個(gè)神話的探討揭示了美國人的心理。

3. She spent her life plumbing the mysteries of the human psyche.: 她畢生探索人類心靈的奧秘。

4. She knew, at some deep level of her psyche, that what she was doing was wrong.: 她在內(nèi)心深處還是知道自己當(dāng)時(shí)正在做錯(cuò)誤的事。

5. "It probably shows up a deeply immature part of my psyche," he confesses.: “它可能表現(xiàn)了我內(nèi)心很不成熟的一面，”他承認(rèn)道。