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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was Strickland's version of the Holy Family.
-- Mrs. Strickland and Mrs. Ronaldson looked down with a slightly pious expression which indicated, I felt sure, that they thought the quotation was from Holy Writ.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some part of the edifice had been a baronial chapel, and here were effigies of warriors stretched upon their beds of stone with folded hands cross-legged, those who had fought in the Holy Wars girded with their swords, and cased in armour as they had lived.
-- With that, Mr Brass, in a great hurry, revealed the whole story; bearing as heavily as possible on his amiable employer, and making himself out to be rather a saint-like and holy character, though subject he acknowledged to human weaknesses.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- People saw nothing holy in this spring morning, in this beauty of God's world--a gift to all living creatures--inclining to peace, good-will and love, but worshiped their own inventions for imposing their will on each other.
-- "Now repeat after me: 'I promise and swear by the Almighty God, His Holy Gospel, and by the life-giving cross of our Lord, that in the case'"--he continued, resting after each phrase.
-- Since that time they had both became corrupted--he by the bad life he was leading; she by her marriage to a man whom she loved sensually, but who not only did not love all that which she and Dimitri at one time considered most holy and precious, but did not even understand it, and all those aspirations to moral perfection and to serving others, to which she had once devoted herself, he ascribed to selfishness and a desire to show off before people.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the wilfulness of an obstinate child, he wanted to break the holy connection that was between them.
-- Seething mobs of men marched about, their faces lighted up as for holy war, with a smoke of cupidity.
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