the moving spiritSTART something/MAKE something START formal someone who makes something start to happen 发起人，策动者 He was the moving spirit behind the founding of the union. 他是该工会的发起人。
the moving spirit• Rittall is regarded as the moving spirit behind the project.• That bull had been the moving spirit of the herd, a figure rather of mythic than of material dimension.
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