divine是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 神的; 极好的; v. 占卜，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was working away from morning till night at a work entitled "Sublime Impressions of a Geographer in the Argentine Pampas," and they could hear him repeating elegant periods aloud before committing them to the white pages of his day-book; and more than once, unfaithful to Clio, the muse of history, he invoked in his transports the divine Calliope, the muse of epic poetry.
-- Let us invoke divine aid, Austin!"
-- "Sir," said Paganel, addressing Michael Patterson, "if it is not an impudent question, may I ask whether it was you that sung an air from the divine Mozart last night?"
-- He succeeded in his dangerous attempt, and had arrived the previous night at the tomb of Kara-Tete, and there proposed to recruit his strength while he waited in the hope that his friends might, by Divine mercy, find the means of escape.
-- I therefore relinquished my scheme, and looked for no deliverance except from a divine hand.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And what does it matter to you, little worm, if I implored the Divine mercy for her, great sinner as she was, as I said my evening prayer?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then presently he woke, with the divine message still ring-ing in his ears; so he sat upright, and put on his soft shirt so fair and new, and over this his heavy cloak.
-- They robbed him of his divine power of song, and thenceforth he could strike the lyre no more.
-- Therefore, my dear son, mind well what you are about, for if you can be first to round the post there is no chance of any one giving you the go-by later, not even though you had Adrestus's horse Arion behind you a horse which is of divine race or those of Laomedon, which are the noblest in this country.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You have no warranty for such an audacious doctrine, nor any covenant to support it,' cried David who was deep-ly tinctured with the subtle distinctions which, in his time, and more especially in his province, had been drawn around the beautiful simplicity of revelation, by endeavoring to penetrate the awful mystery of the divine nature, supply-ing faith by self-sufficiency, and by consequence, involving those who reasoned from such human dogmas in absurdi-ties and doubt; 'your temple is reared on the sands, and the first tempest will wash away its foundation.
-- They then retired within the walls, and first offering up their thanksgivings for past mercies, and peti-tioning for a continuance of the Divine favor throughout the coming night, they laid their tender forms on the fra-grant couch, and in spite of recollections and forebodings, soon sank into those slumbers which nature so imperious-ly demanded, and which were sweetened by hopes for the morrow.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An effective story might also have been made by bringing him into contact with some old painter whom the pressure of want or the desire for commercial success had made false to the genius of his youth, and who, seeing in Strickland the possibilities which himself had wasted, influenced him to forsake all and follow the divine tyranny of art.
-- If in the loneliness of his studio he wrestled desperately with the Angel of the Lord he never allowed a soul to divine his anguish.
-- Tahiti is a lofty green island, with deep folds of a darker green, in which you divine silent valleys; there is mystery in their sombre depths, down which murmur and plash cool streams, and you feel that in those umbrageous places life from immemorial times has been led according to immemorial ways.
-- He was eternally a pilgrim, haunted by a divine nostalgia, and the demon within him was ruthless.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towards this end, indeed, he had purposed to introduce, in this place, a dissertation touching the divine right of beadles, and elucidative of the position, that a beadle can do no wrong: which could not fail to have been both pleasurable and profitable to the right-minded reader but which he is unfortunately compelled, by want of time and space, to postpone to some more convenient and fitting opportunity; on the arrival of which, he will be prepared to show, that a beadle properly constituted: that is to say, a parochial beadle, attached to a parochail workhouse, and attending in his official capacity the parochial church: is, in right and virtue of his office, possessed of all the excellences and best qualities of humanity; and that to none of those excellences, can mere companies' beadles, or court-of-law beadles, or even chapel-of-ease beadles (save the last, and they in a very lowly and inferior degree), lay the remotest sustainable claim.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had, alas!no divine knowledge.
-- I considered that this was the station of life the infinitely wise and good providence of God had determined for me; that as I could not foresee what the ends of Divine wisdom might be in all this, so I was not to dispute His sovereignty; who, as I was His creature, had an undoubted right, by creation, to govern and dispose of me absolutely as He thought fit; and who, as I was a crea-ture that had offended Him, had likewise a judicial right to condemn me to what punishment He thought fit; and that it was my part to submit to bear His indignation, because I had sinned against Him.
-- It is certain these people do not commit this as a crime; it is not against their own con-sciences reproving, or their light reproaching them; they do not know it to be an offence, and then commit it in defiance of divine justice, as we do in almost all the sins we commit.
-- I loaded all my cannon, as I called them - that is to say, my muskets, which were mounted upon my new fortification - and all my pistols, and resolved to defend myself to the last gasp - not forgetting seriously to com-mend myself to the Divine protection, and earnestly to pray to God to deliver me out of the hands of the barbarians.
-- Here I was run down again by him to the last degree; and it was a testimo-ny to me, how the mere notions of nature, though they will guide reasonable creatures to the knowledge of a God, and of a worship or homage due to the supreme being of God, as the consequence of our nature, yet nothing but divine revelation can form the knowledge of Jesus Christ, and of redemption purchased for us; of a Mediator of the new cov-enant, and of an Intercessor at the footstool of God's throne; I say, nothing but a revelation from Heaven can form these in the soul; and that, therefore, the gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, I mean the Word of God, and the Spirit of God, promised for the guide and sanctifier of His people, are the absolutely necessary instructors of the souls of men in the saving knowledge of God and the means of salvation.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She turned towards Lucy in silent amazement, unable to divine the reason or object of such a declaration; and though her complexion varied, she stood firm in incredulity, and felt in no danger of an hysterical fit, or a swoon.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Carrie was now lightened by a touch of this divine afflatus.
-- They were married by a Baptist minister, the first divine they found convenient.
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