religious是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 宗教的， 信教的， 虔诚的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You've got a religious mother, you have, my boy: going and flopping herself down, and praying that the bread-and-butter may be snatched out of the mouth of her only child.'
-- Call yourself a religious woman?
-- If you're a religious woman, give me a irreligious one!You have no more nat'ral sense of duty than the bed of this here Thames river has of a pile, and similarly it must be knocked into you.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I know that he's clever, learned, religious somewhat....
-- He remembered how his brother, while at the university, and for a year afterwards, had, in spite of the jeers of his companions, lived like a monk, strictly observing all religious rites, services, and fasts, and avoiding every sort of pleasure, especially women.
-- "I must say and express fully the following points: first, exposition of the value to be attached to public opinion and to decorum; secondly, exposition of religious significance of marriage; thirdly, if need be, reference to the calamity possibly ensuing to our son; fourthly, reference to the unhappiness likely to result to herself."
-- And some people said that Madame Stahl had made her social position as a philanthropic, highly religious woman; other people said she really was at heart the highly ethical being, living for nothing but the good of her fellow creatures, which she represented herself to be.
-- Though Alexey Alexandrovitch was perfectly aware that he could not exert any moral influence over his wife, that such an attempt at reformation could lead to nothing but falsity; though in passing through these difficult moments he had not once thought of seeking guidance in religion, yet now, when his conclusion corresponded, as it seemed to him, with the requirements of religion, this religious sanction to his decision gave him complete satisfaction, and to some extent restored his peace of mind.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These descendants of the sect of Zoroaster the most thrifty, civilised, intelligent, and austere of the East Indians, among whom are counted the richest native merchants of Bombay were celebrating a sort of religious carnival, with processions and shows, in the midst of which Indian dancing-girls, clothed in rose-coloured gauze, looped up with gold and silver, danced airily, but with perfect modesty, to the sound of viols and the clanging of tambourines.
-- It takes particular care that the religious customs of the Indians should be respected, and if your servant were caught ""Very well, Sir Francis," replied Mr. Fogg; "if he had been caught he would have been condemned and punished, and then would have quietly returned to Europe.
-- The head of the procession soon appeared beneath the trees, a hundred paces away; and the strange figures who performed the religious ceremony were easily distinguished through the branches.
-- The prospect of so frightful an existence drives these poor creatures to the sacrifice much more than love or religious fanaticism.
-- The young woman had again fallen into a stupor caused by the fumes of hemp, and passed among the fakirs, who escorted her with their wild, religious cries.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin turned on her with fury, statistics, vituperation, religious zeal, and confused metaphors.
-- But on night duty, alone, he had to face the self he had been afraid to uncover, and he was homesick for the laboratory, for the thrill of uncharted discoveries, the quest below the surface and beyond the moment, the search for fundamental laws which the scientist (however blasphemously and colloquially he may describe it) exalts above temporary healing as the religious exalts the nature and terrible glory of God above pleasant daily virtues.
-- Now about practical details--" II Gottlieb, the placidly virulent hater of religious rites, had a religious-seeming custom.
-- From the Tozers he had heard almost religious praise of Dr. Adam Winter of Leopolis, a man of nearly seventy, the pioneer physician of Crynssen County, and to this sage he was fleeing.
-- Like all ardent agnostics, Martin was a religious man.
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：
-- His parents were very hard- working and deeply religious people, but so poor that they lived with their five children in only two rooms.
-- Though his religious temper led him in the end to accept every suffering with resignation and to regard it as a blessing in his own case, he constantly recurs to the subject in his writings.
-- And here was something new again: the mysterious meetings with Lizaveta and both of them religious maniacs.
-- 'I shall be a religious maniac myself soon!It's infectious!'
-- [*] A religious sect. TRANSLATOR'S NOTE.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I mayfiguratively say, of that religious edifice, immortalised by Chaucer,which was anciently the resort of pilgrims from the remotestcorners of- in short.'
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