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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Pages of the Bible!If that is the use they make of the Holy Book, I pity the missionaries!It will be rather difficult to establish a Maori library."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet may we shelter ourselves in the infinite goodness of Providence, which would not forever punish the innocent beyond that third or fourth generation which is threatened in Holy Writ.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He sometimes comes back drunk in the evening; but just now he passes the greater part of the evening in tears, and reads passages of Holy Scripture aloud, because our mother died five weeks ago.'
-- ) a Cardinal, a Papal leg-ate, offered to put on her stockings; a high and holy person like that looked on it as an honour!Did you know this?
-- 'Strange things are going on in our so-called Holy Rus-sia in this age of reform and great enterprises; this age of patriotism in which hundreds of millions are yearly sent abroad; in which industry is encouraged, and the hands of Labour paralyzed, etc.
-- But like the Frenchman of whom the story is told that he studied for holy orders, took all the oaths, was ordained priest, and next morning wrote to his bishop informing him that, as he did not believe in God and considered it wrong to de-ceive the people and live upon their pockets, he begged to surrender the orders conferred upon him the day before, and to inform his lordship that he was sending this letter to the public press, like this Frenchman, the prince played a false game.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Hear me,' he cried, 'O god of the silver bow, that protectest Chryse and holy Cilla and rulest Tenedos with thy might, hear me oh thou of Sminthe.
-- He will not deliver the Danaans from this pestilence till Agamem-non has restored the girl without fee or ransom to her father, and has sent a holy hecatomb to Chryse.
-- So saying he gave the girl over to her father, who received her gladly, and they ranged the holy hecatomb all orderly round the altar of the god.
-- 'Hear me,' he cried, 'O god of the silver bow, that protectest Chryse and holy Cilla, and rulest Tenedos with thy might.
-- We were ranged round about a fountain offering hecatombs to the gods upon their holy altars, and there was a fine plane-tree from beneath which there welled a stream of pure water.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Wheat he gave to rich folk, millet to the poor, Broken scraps for holy men that beg from door to door; Battle to the tiger, carrion to the kite, And rags and bones to wicked wolves without the wall at night.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Receiving no reply to this extraordinary appeal, which in truth, as it was delivered with the vigor of full and so-norous tones, merited some sort of notice, he who had thus sung forth the language of the holy book turned to the si-lent figure to whom he had unwittingly addressed himself, and found a new and more powerful subject of admiration in the object that encountered his gaze.
-- I understand not your allusions about lines and an-gles; and I leave expounding to those who have been called and set apart for that holy office.
-- For myself, I conclude the Bumppos could shoot, for I have a natural turn with a rifle, which must have been handed down from generation to generation, as, our holy commandments tell us, all good and evil gifts are bestowed; though I should be loath to answer for other people in such a matter.
-- 'The holy Bible is not more true, and that is the truest thing in nature.
-- At times it rose to the full-est compass of the rich voices of the females, who hung over their little book in holy excitement, and again it sank so low, that the rushing of the waters ran through their mel-ody, like a hollow accompaniment.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ten miles away the island of Murea, like some high fastness of the Holy Grail, guarded its mystery.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He leaves all his deliverance to God, contenting himself with this, that spite of all his pains and pangs, he will still look towards His holy temple.
-- "God bless ye, and have ye in His holy keeping, men," murmured old Bildad, almost incoherently.
-- Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that the whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From hence I sometimes was led too far, to invade the sovereignty of Providence, and, as it were, arraign the justice of so arbitrary a disposition of things, that should hide that sight from some, and reveal it - to others, and yet expect a like duty from both; but I shut it up, and checked my thoughts with this conclusion: first, that we did not know by what light and law these should be condemned; but that as God was necessarily, and by the nature of His being, infinitely holy and just, so it could not be, but if these creatures were all sentenced to absence from Himself, it was on account of sinning against that light which, as the Scripture says, was a law to themselves, and by such rules as their consciences would acknowledge to be just, though the foundation was not discovered to us; and secondly, that still as we all are the clay in the hand of the potter, no vessel could say to him, 'Why hast thou formed me thus?'
-- He answered, with a great deal of candour and ingen-uousness, that their condition was so miserable, and that they were so sensible of it, that he believed they would abhor the thought of using any man unkindly that should contrib-ute to their deliverance; and that, if I pleased, he would go to them with the old man, and discourse with them about it, and return again and bring me their answer; that he would make conditions with them upon their solemn oath, that they should be absolutely under my direction as their commander and captain; and they should swear upon the holy sacraments and gospel to be true to me, and go to such Christian country as I should agree to, and no other; and to be directed wholly and absolutely by my orders till they were landed safely in such country as I intended, and that he would bring a contract from them, under their hands, for that purpose.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, by and by the king he gets up and comes for- ward a little, and works himself up and slobbers out a speech, all full of tears and flapdoodle about its being a sore trial for him and his poor brother to lose the diseased, and to miss seeing diseased alive after the long journey of four thousand mile, but it's a trial that's sweetened and sanctified to us by this dear sym- pathy and these holy tears, and so he thanks them out of his heart and out of his brother's heart, because out of their mouths they can't, words being too weak and cold, and all that kind of rot and slush, till it was just sicken-ing; and then he blubbers out a pious goody- goody Amen, and turns himself loose and goes to cry- ing fit to bust.
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