élan vital

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The life force or vital principle posited in the philosophy of Henri Bergson; any mysterious or creative vital principle. uncountable
    — Progress was a labyrinth. . . people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it. . . the invisible king—the élan vital—the principle of evolution. . .

词源

An unadapted borrowing from French élan vital (“life force”, literally “vital impetus or force”), coined by Henri Bergson in 1907.
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