zeitgeist

1. N-SING 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. (尤指文學、哲學和政治中表現的)時代精神; 時代潮流

He has caught the zeitgeist of life in the 1960s very well indeed. 他確實非常準確地描繪出了20世紀60年代鄕村生活的真實風貌。