/'i:θɒs; `iθɑs/
n (fml 文) characteristic spirit, moral values, ideas or beliefs of a group, community or culture （集体、社团、文化的）气质、道德观、思想或信仰
*the revolutionary ethos 革命精神
* His book captures exactly the ethos of Elizabethan England. 他的书准确地描绘了英国伊丽莎白时代的风土人情.

n [singular]
[Date: 1800-1900; Language: Greek;Origin:'custom, character']
the set of ideas and moral attitudes that are typical of a particular group
　a community in which people lived according to an ethos of sharing and caring