Roosevelt was in good spirits when he reported to Congress after his return from the Yalta conference.

VOA: special.2011.07.07

In fact, Yeats sees his poems as a kind of summoning of spirits or evocation of spirits, as he refers to it.

实际上，叶芝认为他的诗歌,如他所说在召集传唤灵魂。

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He says, "I believe in the practice and philosophy of what we have agreed to call magic, in what I must call the evocation of spirits, though I do not know what they are."

他说我相信我们所称作的,关于魔法的实践和哲学，我认为那是对灵魂的召唤，尽管我并不知道它们是什么“

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In his brief remarks, Mr.Obama sought to explain his decision to release the memos and to lift the spirits of CIA employees.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

So, for example, impurity was often connected with belief in evil spirits and impure demons.

所以，举个例子，不洁经常会和,恶灵以及不洁的恶魔联系在一起。

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In 1985,Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ordered dramatic cuts in the production of wines and spirits and introduced strict controls on the public consumption of alcohol.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

All spirits, like the genius loci, are physical, palpable presences in the natural world.

所有的神灵，像地方守护神，都具体可触的存在于自然界。

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