sacred是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 神圣的,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and ori-gin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And now that the cloud settled on Saint Antoine, which a momentary gleam had driven from his sacred countenance, the darkness of it was heavy-cold, dirt, sickness, ignorance, and want, were the lords in waiting on the saintly pres-ence-nobles of great power all of them; but, most especially the last.
-- 'If, when I tell you, dearest dear, that your agony is over, and that I have come here to take you from it, and that we go to England to be at peace and at rest, I cause you to think of your useful life laid waste, and of our native France so wicked to you, weep for it, weep for it!And if, when I shall tell you of my name, and of my father who is living, and of my mother who is dead, you learn that I have to kneel to my honoured father, and implore his pardon for having 64 A tale of two citiesnever for his sake striven all day and lain awake and wept all night, because the love of my poor mother hid his torture from me, weep for it, weep for it!Weep for her, then, and for me!Good gentlemen, thank God!I feel his sacred tears upon my face, and his sobs strike against my heart.
-- That, he had been the prison-er's friend, but, at once in an auspicious and an evil hour 91detecting his infamy, had resolved to immolate the traitor he could no longer cherish in his bosom, on the sacred al-tar of his country.
-- One lacquey carried the chocolate-pot into the sacred presence; a second, milled and frothed the chocolate with the little instrument he bore for that function; a third, presented the favoured napkin; a fourth (he of the two gold watches), poured the chocolate out.
-- It carried me into great and unex-170 A tale of two citiespected peril; but it is a sacred object, and if it had carried me to death I hope it would have sustained me.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The old curly birches of the gardens, all their twigs laden with snow, looked as though freshly decked in sacred vestments.
-- Such men are unfaithful, but their home and wife are sacred to them.
-- His conception of her was for him a sacred memory, and his future wife was bound to be in his imagination a repetition of that exquisite, holy ideal of a woman that his mother had been.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Mew, my lord!What, a rabbit mew!I swear to you ""Be so good, landlord, as not to swear, but remember this: cats were formerly considered, in India, as sacred animals.
-- Passepartout, however, thinking no harm, went in like a simple tourist, and was soon lost in admiration of the splendid Brahmin ornamentation which everywhere met his eyes, when of a sudden he found himself sprawling on the sacred flagging.
-- Passepartout started off forthwith, and found himself in the streets of Allahabad, that is, the City of God, one of the most venerated in India, being built at the junction of the two sacred rivers, Ganges and Jumna, the waters of which attract pilgrims from every part of the peninsula.
-- Her ebony brows have the form and charm of the bow of Kama, the god of love, and beneath her long silken lashes the purest reflections and a celestial light swim, as in the sacred lakes of Himalaya, in the black pupils of her great clear eyes.
-- 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:
-- Generations of Digams had collected test-papers and preserved them in the sacred Quiz Book; geniuses for detail had labored through the volume and marked with red pencil the problems most often set in the course of years.
-- His classes listened with zeal, and memorized the sacred hundred and fifty favorite prescriptions.
-- While medical quacks, manufacturers of patent medicines, chewing- gum salesmen, and high priests of advertising lived in large houses, attended by servants, and took their sacred persons abroad in limousines, Max Gottlieb dwelt in a cramped cottage whose paint was peeling, and rode to his laboratory on an ancient and squeaky bicycle.
-- But the really dismaying thing was that he should by an effort to be a politician have interrupted the sacred work.
-- They had large cars and larger cellars, though the cellars contained nothing but gin, whisky, vermouth, and a few sacred bottles of rather sweet champagne.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then, I remember, I main-tain in my article that all 芒聙娄 well, legislators and leaders of 368 Crime and Punishmentmen, such as Lycurgus, Solon, Mahomet, Napoleon, and so on, were all without exception criminals, from the very fact that, making a new law, they transgressed the ancient one, handed down from their ancestors and held sacred by the people, and they did not stop short at bloodshed ei-ther, if that bloodshed often of innocent persons fighting bravely in defence of ancient law were of use to their cause.
-- It's a sacred tradition, mentioned, I fancy, in all the manuals of the art?'
-- There are no sacred traditions amongst us, especially in the educated class, Av-dotya Romanovna.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I shudder at this moment with the tremendoussensation of seeing it done, and feeling that the ball has boundedon to Mr. Creakle's sacred head.
-- Upon which, Janetcame running up the stairs as if the house were in flames, dartedout on a little piece of green in front, and warned off two saddle-donkeys, lady-ridden, that had presumed to set hoof upon it; whilemy aunt, rushing out of the house, seized the bridle of a thirdanimal laden with a bestriding child, turned him, led him forthfrom those sacred precincts, and boxed the ears of the unluckyurchin in attendance who had dared to profane that hallowedground.
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