English Dictionary

verve

IPA（発音記号）

/vɜːv/

名詞

不可算名詞 廃用

Enthusiasm, rapture, spirit, or vigour, especially of imagination such as that which animates an artist, musician, or writer, in composing or performing. / (obsolete) A particular skill in writing.

日本語の意味

創造的な情熱や活力、ひいては精神や感性の躍動感 / 芸術家や作家などに見られる独特の勢いやエネルギー / （古語的に）文章において発揮される独自の技巧や表現力

She performed the new composition with such verve that the audience rose to their feet.

彼女はその新作を並外れた熱意で演奏し、観客は総立ちになった。

意味（1）

Enthusiasm, rapture, spirit, or vigour, especially of imagination such as that which animates an artist, musician, or writer, in composing or performing.

His hands were strong and elegant; his experience of life evidently varied; his speech full of pith and verve; his manners forward, but perfectly presentable.

意味（2）

(obsolete) A particular skill in writing.

If he be above Virgil, and is reſolv'd to follow his own Verve (as the French call it,) the Proverb will fall heavily upon him; Who teaches himſelf, has a Fool for his Maſter.