holy是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 神圣的， 圣洁的，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：
-- That, the lofty example of this immacu-late and unimpeachable witness for the Crown, to refer to whom however unworthily was an honour, had communi-cated itself to the prisoner's servant, and had engendered in him a holy determination to examine his master's table-drawers and pockets, and secrete his papers.
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：
-- With the snake-like writhings of an idea he glided into another female heart; but this seemed to him like a large holy fane.
-- And the wood and the sea sang a song of rejoicing, and his heart sang with the rest: all nature was a vast holy church, in which the trees and the buoyant clouds were the pillars, flowers and grass the velvet carpeting, and heaven itself the large cupo-la.
-- They ran towards each other, and stood together hand in hand in the vast church of nature and of poetry, while over them sounded the invisible holy bell: blessed spirits floated around them, and lifted up their voices in a rejoicing hallelujah!
-- Was it there as in a holy church?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The place where she stood seemed to him a holy shrine, unapproachable, and there was one moment when he was almost retreating, so overwhelmed was he with terror.
-- 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.
-- On entering the study Ryabinin looked about, as his habit was, as though seeking the holy picture, but when he had found it, he did not cross himself.
-- Under the holy pictures stood a table painted in patterns, a bench, and two chairs.
-- I'm terrible, but my nurse used to tell me; the holy martyr--what was her name?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There Passepartout beheld beautiful fir and cedar groves, sacred gates of a singular architecture, bridges half hid in the midst of bamboos and reeds, temples shaded by immense cedar-trees, holy retreats where were sheltered Buddhist priests and sectaries of Confucius, and interminable streets, where a perfect harvest of rose-tinted and red-cheeked children, who looked as if they had been cut out of Japanese screens, and who were playing in the midst of short-legged poodles and yellowish cats, might have been gathered.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They passed the Reverend Ira Hinkley, and Ira gloated with a holy gloating at Martin's captivity.
-- But poverty kept him from fulfillment of his summer longing to sit beneath the poplars by the Rhine or the tranquil Seine, at a table on whose checkered cloth were bread and cheese and wine and dusky cherries, those ancient and holy simplicities of all the world.
-- He liked his windows open at night and he disliked men who spat tobacco juice on sidewalks, but he was jarred by hearing these certainly esthetic and possibly hygienic reforms proposed with holy frenzy and bogus statistics.
-- One of the papers had an innocent squib: Probably a certain amount of hypocrisy is inevitable in us sinful human critters, but when a public official tries to pose as a saint while indulging in every vice, and tries to cover up his gross ignorance and incompetence by pulling political wires, and makes a holy show of himself by not even doing a first-class job of wire- pulling, then even the cussedest of us old scoundrels begins to holler for the meat-ax.
-- Well, I noticed the Holy Wren was showing you the menagerie."
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：
-- No, Dounia, I see it all and I know what you want to say to me; and I know too what you were thinking about, when you walked up and down all night, and what your prayers were like before the Holy Mother of Kazan who stands in mother's bedroom.
-- It was a very small room with a whole shrine of holy images.
-- Don't you see at once that the answers he has given in the examination are the holy truth?
-- 'The holy truth!But didn't he own himself that he told a lie at first?'
-- Tell me,' he went on almost in a frenzy, 'how this shame and degradation can exist in you side by side with other, opposite, holy feelings?
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And how the parson would pray!Yes; he would kneel down and put up his hands together, and make the holy gold rings on his fingers gleam and twinkle in yer eyes, that he'd earned by praying so excellent well! Ah yes, I wish I lived there."
-- "You be asked to swear in a holy manner, and you swear like wicked Shimei, the son of Gera, who cursed as he came.
-- said Oak; and turning upon Poorgrass, "as for you, Joseph, who do your wicked deeds in such confoundedly holy ways, you are as drunk as you can stand."
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