the moral ideas and attitudes that belong to a particular group, society or person (某團體或社會的)道德思想,道德觀 an ethos of public service 公益服務的道德意識 the carefree Californian ethos 無憂無慮的加州精神 Teaching was central to his ethos. 教學是他精神氣質的核心。
Extra ExamplesTopics Personal qualitiesc1Investing in arms companies is strongly against the group's ethos. 投資軍火公司強烈反對該集團的精神。 The prevailing ethos of the teachers was that of strict discipline. 老師們盛行的風氣是嚴明紀律。
Word Originmid 19th cent.: from modern Latin, from Greek ēthos ‘nature, disposition’, (plural) ‘customs’.