mindmap root((灵魂)) soul may be preferred when emphasis is on the entity as having functions, responsibilities, aspects, or destiny: praying for the ~s of the dead; or when the emphasis is on relation or connection to a material entity to which it gives life or power: set out to save the ~ of the nation. spirit may be chosen when the stress is upon the quality, the constitution, or the activity of the entity: a man fervent in ~; or it may suggest an antithesis to something material: enforced the ~ rather than the letter of the law。