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mana

/mah-nah/US // ˈmɑ nɑ //UK // (ˈmɑːnə) //

法力

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Anthropology.

    • : a generalized, supernatural force or power, which may be concentrated in objects or persons.

Examples

  • Melissa Cheyney, chief author of the pro-home-birth MANA study, calls the Cornell methodology “misleading.”

  • Government spokesman Nasser al-Mana'a insisted the government had no choice but to attack and had used proportionate violence.

  • This consists of "getting up" a memorial to some distinguished mana statue, it may be, or modest bust.

  • May your mana never be less;—long may you hold at bay the demon of civilization, though fall at last I fear you must.

  • A chief of very high rank, standing, and mana, was on a war expedition; with him were about five hundred men.

  • If the reader has not some faint notion of mana by this time, I can't help it: I can't do any better for him.

  • But mind you do not translate mana as power; that won't do: they are two different things entirely.