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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, although I trembled for the agony it might one day beto him to have his strong assurance shivered at a blow, there wassomething so religious in it, so affectingly expressive of its anchorbeing in the purest depths of his fine nature, that the respect andhonour in which I held him were exalted every day.
-- 'Does he gloomily profess to be (I am ashamed to use the word insuch association) religious still?'
-- It was for me to guard this sisterly affection with religious care.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lanceolate windows, the time-eaten archstones and chamfers, the orientation of the axis, the misty chestnut work of the rafters, referred to no exploded fortifying art or worn-out religious creed.
-- "Well, then, in a religious sense you will be as free to think o' marrying again as any real widow of one year's standing.
-- It may be merely this legal reason which influences her, or it may be a religious one, but she is reluctant to talk on the point.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Wopsle said grace with theatrical declamation,--as it now appears to me, something like a religious cross of the Ghost in Hamlet with Richard the Third,--and ended with the very proper aspiration that we might be truly grateful.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I computed the number of our people, by reckon-ing how many millions there might be of each religious sect, or political party among us.
-- Whether those holy lords I spoke of were always promoted to that rank upon account of their knowledge in religious matters, and the sanctity of their lives; had never been compliers with the times, while they were common priests; or slav-ish prostitute chaplains to some nobleman, whose opinions they continued servilely to follow, after they were admitted into that assembly?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the members of a religious persuasion built a chapel there as the members of eighteen religious persuasions had done they made it a pious warehouse of red brick, with sometimes (but this is only in highly ornamental examples) a bell in a birdcage on the top of it.
-- Nor was it merely the stranger who noticed this, because there was a native organization in Coketown itself, whose members were to be heard of in the House of Commons every session, indignantly petitioning for acts of parliament that should make these people religious by main force.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ownership of property has now become a religious question: as it has been since Jesus and St Francis.
-- And they drew into a closer physical intimacy, an intimacy of perversity, when he was a child stricken with an apparent candour and an apparent wonderment, that looked almost like a religious exaltation: the perverse and literal render-ing of: 'except ye become again as a little child'. While she was the Magna Mater, full of power and potency, having the great blond child-man under her will and her stroke en-tirely.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In part relieved by the intensity of this threat, and in part (monstrous as the fact is) by a general impression that it was in some sort a religious proceeding, she handed back the book to the old man, and was silent.
-- He had worked himself into quite a religious glow and fervour.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Queequeg's Ramadan, or Fasting and Humiliation, was to continue all day, I did not choose to disturb him till towards night-fall; for I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, never mind how comical, and could not find it in my heart to undervalue even a congregation of ants worshipping a toad-stool; or those other creatures in certain parts of our earth, who with a degree of footmanism quite unprecedented in other planets, bow down before the torso of a deceased landed proprietor merely on account of the inordinate possessions yet owned and rented in his name.
-- What is the principle of religious belief in them but a Loose-Fish?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let it not be supposed by the enemies of 'the system,' that, during the period of his solitary incarceration, Oliver was denied the benefit of exercise, the pleasure of society, or the advantages of religious consolation.
-- And so for from being denied the advantages of religious consolation, he was kicked into the same apartment every evening at prayer-time, and there permitted to listen to, and console his mind with, a general supplication of the boys, containing a special clause, therein inserted by authority of the board, in which they entreated to be made good, virtuous, contented, and obedient, and to be guarded from the sins and vices of Oliver Twist: whom the supplication distinctly set forth to be under the exclusive patronage and protection of the powers of wickedness, and an article direct from the manufactory of the very Devil himself.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had hitherto acted upon no religious foundation at all; indeed, I had very few notions of religion in my head, nor had entertained any sense of anything that had befallen me otherwise than as chance, or, as we lightly say, what pleases God, without so much as inquiring into the end of Providence in these things, or His order in governing events for the world.
-- At last it occurred to my thoughts that I shook a bag of chickens' meat out in that place; and then the wonder began to cease; and I must confess my religious thankfulness to God's providence began to abate, too, upon the discovering that all this was nothing but what was common; though I ought to have been as thankful for so strange and unforeseen a providence as if it had been miraculous; for it was really the work of Providence to me, that should order or appoint that ten or twelve grains of corn should remain unspoiled, when the rats had destroyed all the rest, as if it had been dropped from heaven; as also, that I should throw it out in that par-ticular place, where, it being in the shade of a high rock, it sprang up immediately; whereas, if I had thrown it any-where else at that time, it had been burnt up and destroyed.
-- All this while I had not the least serious religious thought; nothing but the common 'Lord have mercy upon me!'
-- I kept this day as a solemn fast, setting it apart for religious exercise, prostrating myself on the ground with the most serious humiliation, confessing my sins to God, acknowl-edging His righteous judgments upon me, and praying to Him to have mercy on me through Jesus Christ; and not having tasted the least refreshment for twelve hours, even till the going down of the sun, I then ate a biscuit-cake and a bunch of grapes, and went to bed, finishing the day as I began it.
-- I had been well instructed by father and mother; neither had they been wanting to me in their early endeavours to infuse a religious awe of God into my mind, a sense of my duty, and what the nature and end of my be-ing required of me.
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