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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ethos /ˈiˌθɑs/
 民族精神,社會思潮,風氣

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 E·thos n.
 1.  The character, sentiment, or disposition of a community or people, considered as a natural endowment; the spirit which actuates manners and customs; also, the characteristic tone or genius of an institution or social organization.
 2.  esthetics The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character -- character as influenced by the ethos (sense 1) of a people -- rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; -- opposed to pathos.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 ethos
      n : (anthropology) the distinctive spirit of a culture or an
          era; "the Greek ethos"