pious是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 虔诚的； 虔奉宗教的，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But God's warm sun streamed through the open window; lovely roses nodded from the wooden flower-boxes on the roof, and two sky-blue birds sang rejoicingly, while the sick mother implored God's rich-est blessings on her pious daughter.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then they were told that there was to be a collection for a pious object in church; well, they pulled out their halfpence and gave them, but what for they couldn't say."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elephants were bathing in the waters of the sacred river, and groups of Indians, despite the advanced season and chilly air, were performing solemnly their pious ablutions.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her father, Andrew Jackson Tozer, sometimes known as Jackass Tozer; owner of the bank, of the creamery, and an elevator, therefore the chief person in town; pious at Wednesday evening prayer-meeting, fussing over every penny he gave to Leora or her mother.
-- The bed in his room was lumpy but covered with a chaste figured spread, and the flowery pitcher and bowl rested on a cover embroidered in red with lambs, frogs, water lilies, and a pious motto.
-- Mrs. Tredgold, best natured as she was least pious of women, adopted her complete.
-- God give me a restlessness whereby I may neither sleep nor accept praise till my observed results equal my calculated results or in pious glee I discover and assault my error.
-- The line of trucks roared down to Carib, the rat-catchers sitting atop, singing pious hymns.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Micawbershook her head, and dropped a pious tear upon the twin whohappened to be in hand.
-- At length I was moving quietly towards the door, with theintention of saying that perhaps I should consult his feelings bestby withdrawing: when he said, with his hands in his coat-pockets,into which it was as much as he could do to get them; and withwhat I should call, upon the whole, a decidedly pious air'You areprobably aware, Mr. Copperfield, that I am not altogether destituteof worldly possessions, and that my daughter is my nearest anddearest relative?'
-- I could not discover whether my aunt, in her last shortconversation with me, had fallen on a pious fraud, or had reallymistaken the state of my mind.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I do not remember I gave you power to consent that any thing should be omitted, and much less that any thing should be inserted; therefore, as to the latter, I do here renounce ev-ery thing of that kind; particularly a paragraph about her majesty Queen Anne, of most pious and glorious memo-ry; although I did reverence and esteem her more than any of human species.
-- Ships are sent with the first opportunity; the natives driven out or de-378 Gulliver's Travelsstroyed; their princes tortured to discover their gold; a free license given to all acts of inhumanity and lust, the earth reeking with the blood of its inhabitants: and this execrable crew of butchers, employed in so pious an expedition, is a modern colony, sent to convert and civilize an idolatrous and barbarous people!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the members of a religious persuasion built a chapel there as the members of eighteen religious persuasions had done they made it a pious warehouse of red brick, with sometimes (but this is only in highly ornamental examples) a bell in a birdcage on the top of it.
-- As Coketown cast ashes not only on its own head but on the neighbourhood's too after the manner of those pious persons who do penance for their own sins by putting other people into sackcloth it was customary for those who now and then thirsted for a draught of pure air, which is not absolutely the most wicked among the vanities of life, to get a few miles away by the railroad, and then begin their walk, or their lounge in the fields.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This day, as on other Sundays, we observed as a day of rest and pious meditation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is a sensible man, and a trustworthy man, and a persevering man, and a pious man."
-- 'In the days of old, Arthur, treated of in this commentary, there were pious men, beloved of the Lord, who would have cursed their sons for less than this: who would have sent them forth, and sent whole nations forth, if such had supported them, to be avoided of God and man, and perish, down to the baby at the breast.
-- There was no want of precedent for his return; it was accounted for to the father in the usual way; and the collegians, with a better comprehension of the pious fraud than Tip, supported it loyally.
-- Mr Blandois, I suspect, is not of a pious cast.'
-- What was I, and what was the worth of that, before the curse of Heaven!I have seen that child grow up; not to be pious in a chosen way (his mother's influence lay too heavy on him for that), but still to be just and upright, and to be submissive to me.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In spite of her small vanities, Margaret had a sweet and pious nature, which unconsciously influenced her sisters, especially Jo, who loved her very tenderly, and obeyed her because her advice was so gently given.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How now in the contemplative evening of his days, the pious Bildad reconciled these things in the reminiscence, I do not know; but it did not seem to concern him much, and very probably he had long since come to the sage and sensible conclusion that a man's religion is one thing, and this practical world quite another.
-- For a pious man, especially for a Quaker, he was certainly rather hard-hearted, to say the least.
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