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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She will be rejoiced, Copperfield, to renew heracquaintance with one who has proved himself in all respects aworthy minister at the sacred altar of friendship.'
-- I felt as if I hadcome into the knowledge of those domestic weaknesses andtendernesses in a sacred confidence, and that to disclose them, evento Steerforth, would be wrong.
-- When the day arrived, my very carpet-bag was an object ofveneration to the stipendiary clerks, to whom the house atNorwood was a sacred mystery.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Within were lying about stones of all sizes and designs, inscribed as being sacred to the memory of unnamed persons who had not yet died.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was still under the spell of youthful beliefs, he had just left home, pure and sacred feelings had been stirred within him, and this was his first day on the battlefield of civilization in Paris.
-- A few tears, like the last grains of incense flung upon the sacred alter fire of the hearth, fell from his eyes.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I knelt on the grass and kissed the earth and with quivering lips exclaimed, 'By the sacred earth on which I kneel, by the shades that wander near me, by the deep and eternal grief that I feel, I swear; and by thee, O Night, and the spirits that preside over thee, to pursue the daemon who caused this misery, until he or I shall perish in mortal conflict.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Cause didn't seem sacred to her.
-- She was done with marriage but not with love, for her love for Ashley was something different, having nothing todo with passion or marriage, something sacred and breathtakingly beautiful, an emotion that grew stealthily through thelong days of her enforced silence, feeding on oft-thumbed memories and hopes.
-- "Nothing may be sacred to you, young man," he said, in the voice he always used when making speeches.
-- "Butthere are many things sacred to the patriotic men and ladies of the South.
-- When I think of my brother, livingamong the sacred cows of Charleston, and most reverent toward them, and remember his stodgy wife and his SaintCecilia Balls and his everlasting rice fields then I know the compensation for breaking with the system.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To five little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine,--who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle,--I am indebted for a belief I religiously entertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence.
-- He had prepared a collation for me in the Barnwell parlor, and he too ordered his shopman to "come out of the gangway" as my sacred person passed.
-- But here I anticipate a little, for I was not a Finch, and could not be, according to the sacred laws of the society, until I came of age.
-- And I took him down to the churchyard, and set him on a certain tombstone there, and he showed me from that elevation which stone was sacred to the memory of Philip Pirrip, late of this Parish, and Also Georgiana, Wife of the Above.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The treasurer was of the same opinion: he showed to what straits his majesty's revenue was reduced, by the charge of maintaining you, which would soon grow insup-portable; that the secretary's expedient of putting out your eyes, was so far from being a remedy against this evil, that it would probably increase it, as is manifest from the com-mon practice of blinding some kind of fowls, after which they fed the faster, and grew sooner fat; that his sacred maj-esty and the council, who are your judges, were, in their own consciences, fully convinced of your guilt, which was a sufficient argument to condemn you to death, without the 82 Gulliver's Travelsformal proofs required by the strict letter of the law.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A town so sacred to fact, and so triumphant in its assertion, of course got on well?
-- Then was it not the sacred duty of the men of Coketown, with forefathers before them, an admiring world in company with them, and a posterity to come after them, to hurl out traitors from the tents they had pitched in a sacred and a God-like cause?
-- It was but a hurried parting in a common street, yet it was a sacred remembrance to these two common people.
-- A thief!A plunderer!A proscribed fugitive, with a price upon his head; a fester and a wound upon the noble character of the Coketown operative!Therefore, my band of brothers in a sacred bond, to which your children and your children's children yet unborn have set their infant hands and seals, I propose to you on the part of the United Aggregate Tribunal, ever watchful for your welfare, ever zealous for your benefit, that this meeting does Resolve: That Stephen Blackpool, weaver, referred to in this placard, having been already solemnly disowned by the community of Coketown Hands, the same are free from the shame of his misdeeds, and cannot as a class be reproached with his dishonest actions!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then again I seemed to find the word luco, which means sacred wood.
-- What connection could there be between ice, sir, anger, cruel, sacred wood, changing, mother, are, and sea?
-- These sacred edifices are, however, very much like these people, who do without watches--and never miss them.
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