N-SING （尤指文学、哲学和政治中表现出的）时代精神，时代思潮 The zeitgeist of a particular place during a particular period in history is the attitudes and ideas that are generally common there at that time, especially the attitudes and ideas shown in literature, philosophy, and politics. （尤指文学、哲学和政治中表现出的）时代精神，时代思潮
He has caught the zeitgeist of rural life in the 1980s very well indeed. [+ of]