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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes; I see two of every sort, as if I were some holy man living in the times of King Noah and entering into the ark.... Y-y-y-yes," he added, becoming much affected by the picture of himself as a person thrown away, and shedding tears; "I feel too good for England: I ought to have lived in Genesis by rights, like the other men of sacrifice, and then I shouldn't have b-b-been called a d-d-drunkard in such a way!"
-- Ah, well!let me take the name of drunkard humbly let me be a man of contrite knees let it be!I know that I always do say 'Please God' afore I do anything, from my getting up to my going down of the same, and I be willing to take as much disgrace as there is in that holy act.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He tried to make us act plays and to enter into masquer-ades, in which the characters were drawn from the heroes of Roncesvalles, of the Round Table of King Arthur, and the chivalrous train who shed their blood to redeem the holy sepulchre from the hands of the infidels.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ellen O'Hara was different, and Scarlett regarded her as something holy and apart from all the rest of humankind.
-- The war didn't seem to be a holy affair, but a nuisance that killedmen senselessly and cost money and made luxuries hard to get.
-- "Everybody carries on like they were holy and they aren'tanything but men, and mighty unattractive looking ones at that."
-- Not even my contribution to our just and holy Cause lifts the ban."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This gradually led to a want of toleration for him, and even--on his being detected in holy orders, and declining to perform the funeral service--to the general indignation taking the form of nuts.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To these were joined several holy persons, as part of that assembly, under the title of bishops, whose peculiar business is to take care of religion, and of those who instruct the people therein.
-- 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：
-- And when they were united in holy matrimony, they went home to breakfast at Stone Lodge aforesaid.
-- MEN AND BROTHERS'Oh, my friends, the down-trodden operatives of Coketown!Oh, my friends and fellow-countrymen, the slaves of an iron-handed and a grinding despotism!Oh, my friends and fellow-sufferers, and fellow-workmen, and fellow-men!I tell you that the hour is come, when we must rally round one another as One united power, and crumble into dust the oppressors that too long have battened upon the plunder of our families, upon the sweat of our brows, upon the labour of our hands, upon the strength of our sinews, upon the God-created glorious rights of Humanity, and upon the holy and eternal privileges of Brotherhood!'
-- But, after dinner, when the day turned to twilight, and the twilight turned to night, and still no communication was made to him, it began to be as he expressed it, 'like the Holy Office and slow torture.'
-- 'Oh, my fellow-men, behold of what a traitor in the camp of those great spirits who are enrolled upon the holy scroll of Justice and of Union, is appropriately capable!Oh, my prostrate friends, with the galling yoke of tyrants on your necks and the iron foot of despotism treading down your fallen forms into the dust of the earth, upon which right glad would your oppressors be to see you creeping on your bellies all the days of your lives, like the serpent in the garden oh, my brothers, and shall I as a man not add, my sisters too, what do you say, now, of Stephen Blackpool, with a slight stoop in his shoulders and about five foot seven in height, as set forth in this degrading and disgusting document, this blighting bill, this pernicious placard, this abominable advertisement; and with what majesty of denouncement will you crush the viper, who would bring this stain and shame upon the God-like race that happily has cast him out for ever!Yes, my compatriots, happily cast him out and sent him forth!For you remember how he stood here before you on this platform; you remember how, face to face and foot to foot, I pursued him through all his intricate windings; you remember how he sneaked and slunk, and sidled, and splitted of straws, until, with not an inch of ground to which to cling, I hurled him out from amongst us: an object for the undying finger of scorn to point at, and for the avenging fire of every free and thinking mind to scorch and scar!And now, my friends my labouring friends, for I rejoice and triumph in that stigma my friends whose hard but honest beds are made in toil, and whose scanty but independent pots are boiled in hardship; and now, I say, my friends, what appellation has that dastard craven taken to himself, when, with the mask torn from his features, he stands before us in all his native deformity, a What?
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：
-- Though I could manage the men all right: they liked me and they had a bit of a holy fear of me when I got mad.
-- Though her mother, oh, holy saints!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were views, like and unlike, of a multitude of places; and there was one little picture-room devoted to a few of the regular sticky old Saints, with sinews like whipcord, hair like Neptune's, wrinkles like tattooing, and such coats of varnish that every holy personage served for a fly-trap, and became what is now called in the vulgar tongue a Catch-em-alive O.
-- I have been so unlucky already in giving you pain without having any such intentions, before the holy Heavens!that there is no fear of my saying it unless I have your leave.
-- 'Holy blue!No; never heard of it.'
-- But, Holy Blue!that's nothing in such a service.
-- And now, when I've been so wishful to show that one thought is next to being a holy one with me and goes before all others now, after all, you dodge me when I ever so gently hint at it, and throw me back upon myself.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Curiosity and wonder possessed all hearts, but respect re-strained all tongues till the holy rite was over.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This account cleared up the otherwise unaccountable mystery, and showed that the landlord, after all, had had no idea of fooling me but at the same time what could I think of a harpooneer who stayed out of a Saturday night clean into the holy Sabbath, engaged in such a cannibal business as selling the heads of dead idolators?
-- Its panelled front was in the likeness of a ship's bluff bows, and the Holy Bible rested on a projecting piece of scroll work, fashioned after a ship's fiddle-headed beak.
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