Christian是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. /n. 基督教的, 基督教徒，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：
-- Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness.
-- Bob had but fifteen bob a-week himself; he pocketed on Saturdays but fifteen copies of his Christian name; and yet the Ghost of Christmas Present blessed his four-roomed house.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained herself, besides, with such humane achieve-ments as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive, be-cause he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks which passed within his view, at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards.
-- When this interchange of Christian name was effected, Madame Defarge, picking her teeth with her toothpick, coughed another grain of cough, and raised her eyebrows by the breadth of another line.
-- At this second interchange of the Christian name, Ma-dame Defarge, still using her toothpick with profound composure, coughed another grain of cough, and raised her eyebrows by the breadth of another line.
-- This third interchange of the Christian name was com-pleted at the moment when Madame Defarge put her toothpick by, kept her eyebrows up, and slightly rustled in her seat.
-- (Mr. Cruncher himself always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the inven-tion of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it.)
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：
-- Andersen's Fairy TalesBy Hans Christian AndersenTHE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES any years ago, there was an Emperor, who was so ex-Mcessively fond of new clothes, that he spent all his money in dress.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch was on familiar terms with almost all his acquaintances, and called almost all of them by their Christian names: old men of sixty, boys of twenty, actors, ministers, merchants, and adjutant-generals, so that many of his intimate chums were to be found at the extreme ends of the social ladder, and would have been very much surprised to learn that they had, through the medium of Oblonsky, something in common.
-- "All consolation and counsel and Christian forgiveness, all that I have thought over a thousand times, and it's all no use."
-- She noticed that when questioning her about her family, Madame Stahl had smiled contemptuously, which was not in accord with Christian meekness.
-- The applicability or non-applicability of the Christian precept to his own case was too difficult a question to be discussed lightly, and this question had long ago been answered by Alexey Alexandrovitch in the negative.
-- He did not think that the Christian law that he had been all his life trying to follow, enjoined on him to forgive and love his enemies; but a glad feeling of love and forgiveness for his enemies filled his heart.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a man of twenty- nine, a graduate of Pottsburg Christian College and of the Sanctification Bible and Missions School.
-- In the dissecting-room Ira was maddening enough with his merriment at such of Martin's ideas as had not been accepted in Pottsburg Christian College, but in the fraternity-house he was a moral pest.
-- One of its smallest but oldest industries is Mugford Christian College, which has two hundred and seventeen students, and sixteen instructors, of whom eleven are ministers of the Church of Christ.
-- Sometimes the papers, and I can only say they flatter me when they compare me with Billy Sunday, the greatest of all evangelists and Christian preachers--sometimes they claim that I'm too sensational.
-- But when it comes to this--what was it Clif Clawson used to call it?--by the way, wonder what's ever become of Clif; haven't heard from him for a couple o' years-- when it comes to this 'overpowering Christian Domesticity'-- Oh, let's hunt for a blind-pig and sit around with the nice restful burglars."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh, it's not her Christian name.
-- Her Christian name is Clara.'
-- Even the fact that no one knew his Christian name,seemed to form a part of his respectability.
-- The promise of which my friend hasspoken, is made and entered into with her cousin; Christian name,Ham, surname, Peggotty; occupation, boat-builder, also of thistown.
-- She lives with a relative; Christian name, unknown;surname, Peggotty; occupation, seafaring; also of this town.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A week had not passed since Miss Hawkins's name was first mentioned in Highbury, before she was, by some means or other, discovered to have every recommenda-tion of person and mind; to be handsome, elegant, highly accomplished, and perfectly amiable: and when Mr. Elton himself arrived to triumph in his happy prospects, and cir-culate the fame of her merits, there was very little more for him to do, than to tell her Christian name, and say whose music she principally played.
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