It was felt by a number of politicians that the government had a responsibility to support the arts as sort of the soul or spirit of the country.

很多政治家认为政府有责任支持艺术，以之作为一种国家的灵魂或精神。

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Everything in the world of matter or spirit, it is unique.

世界上的一切物质或精神的存在，都是独一无二的。

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So far as the general tone or spirit of a language goes, this may be true, but it is not true in detail.

限于语言的一般的风格或精神来说，可能是对的，但在细节上不对。

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A painter's colors can show the drying of dreams or the flight of the human spirit.

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It might be darkness. It might be spirit. Or in ancient Greek religion, a more sort of philosophical polytheism, it might be fate.

它可以是黑暗，也可以是一种精神，在古希腊的一个，偏向于哲学上多神论的宗教中，它可以是命运。

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Even what we think in our vulgar ways to be inanimate objects - even they seem to have within them something like a potency, a potency of life or an infusion of divine spirit.

即使是那些我们以通俗的眼光看来没有生命的物体,-即使是它们也有一种潜质，一种生命的潜质，似乎被注入了神灵。

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It can be a generosity of time or spirit, a simple and random act of kindness.

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The technology won't change the speed, value or spirit of the game.

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EU's constitution, in letter or spirit, that says its members should exclude from office even extreme nationalists, so long as they are democratic and act within the law.

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