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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The pious Scotchman's first act on touching the yacht, which to him was the soil of his native land, was to return thanks to the God of his deliverance.
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：
-- Encouraged by his opinion, Alice did what her pious inclinations, and her keen relish for gentle sounds, had be-fore so strongly urged.
-- Cora bestowed an ap-proving smile on the pious efforts of the namesake of the Jewish prince, and Heyward soon turned his steady, stern look from the outlet of the cavern, to fasten it, with a milder character, on the face of David, or to meet the wandering beams which at moments strayed from the humid eyes of Alice.
-- Exerting his renovated powers to their utmost, he was yet filling the arches of the cave with long and full tones, when a yell burst into the air without, that instantly stilled his pious strains, choking his voice suddenly, as though his heart had literally bounded into the passage of his throat.
-- There he found David, pouring out his pious feelings through the only medium in which he ever indulged.
-- Heyward, however, hastily interrupted his pious pur-pose by continuing questions concerning the past and present condition of his fellow captives, and in a manner more methodical than had been permitted by his feelings in the opening of their interview.
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：
-- Mrs. Strickland and Mrs. Ronaldson looked down with a slightly pious expression which indicated, I felt sure, that they thought the quotation was from Holy Writ.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- responded Herbert, whose pious heart was full of gratitude to the Author of all things.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the peace of the simple village had moved the child more strongly, because of the dark and troubled ways that lay beyond, and through which she had journeyed with such failing feet, what was the deep impression of finding herself alone in that solemn building, where the very light, coming through sunken windows, seemed old and grey, and the air, redolent of earth and mould, seemed laden with decay, purified by time of all its grosser particles, and sighing through arch and aisle, and clustered pillars, like the breath of ages gone!Here was the broken pavement, worn, so long ago, by pious feet, that Time, stealing on the pilgrims' steps, had trodden out their track, and left but crumbling stones.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His aunts, pious old ladies, drove her out when she was no longer as useful as she used to be.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, for instance, you wouldn't think I had had a pious mother to look at me?"
-- And I was a civil, pious boy, and could rattle off my catechism that fast, as you couldn't tell one word from another.
-- And here's what it come to, Jim, and it begun with chuck-farthen on the blessed grave-stones!That's what it begun with, but it went further'n that; and so my mother told me, and predicked the whole, she did, the pious woman!But it were Providence that put me here.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my face so sourly that I charitably conjectured he must have need of divine aid to digest his dinner, and his pious ejaculation had no reference to my unexpected advent.
-- A Pious Discourse delivered by the Reverend Jabez Branderham, in the Chapel of Gimmerden Sough.'
-- By his knack of sermonising and pious discoursing, he contrived to make a great impression on Mr. Earnshaw; and the more feeble the master became, the more influence he gained.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was comforting myself, however, with the thought that in pious Bildad might be found some salvation, spite of his seven hundred and seventy-seventh lay; when I felt a sudden sharp poke in my rear, and turning round, was horrified at the apparition of Captain Peleg in the act of withdrawing his leg from my immediate vicinity.
-- For even the high lifted and chivalric Crusaders of old times were not content to traverse two thousand miles of land to fight for their holy sepulchre, without committing burglaries, picking pockets, and gaining other pious perquisites by the way.
-- There's a most doleful and most mocking funeral!The sea-vultures all in pious mourning, the air-sharks all punctiliously in black or speckled.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, before, he looked like the orneriest old rip that ever was; but now, when he'd take off his new white beaver and make a bow and do a smile, he looked that grand and good and pious that you'd say he had walked right out of the ark, and maybe was old Leviticus himself.
-- Well, by and by the king he gets up and comes for- ward a little, and works himself up and slobbers out a speech, all full of tears and flapdoodle about its being a sore trial for him and his poor brother to lose the diseased, and to miss seeing diseased alive after the long journey of four thousand mile, but it's a trial that's sweetened and sanctified to us by this dear sym- pathy and these holy tears, and so he thanks them out of his heart and out of his brother's heart, because out of their mouths they can't, words being too weak and cold, and all that kind of rot and slush, till it was just sicken-ing; and then he blubbers out a pious goody- goody Amen, and turns himself loose and goes to cry- ing fit to bust.
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