saint是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 圣人， 基督教徒； (S-或St. 用于人， 地名前) 圣，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
-- If the good Saint Dunstan had but nipped the Evil Spirit's 12 Sons and Loversnose with a touch of such weather as that, instead of using his familiar weapons, then indeed he would have roared to lusty purpose.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wine was red wine, and had stained the ground of the narrow street in the suburb of Saint Antoine, in Par-is, where it was spilled.
-- And now that the cloud settled on Saint Antoine, which a momentary gleam had driven from his sacred countenance, the darkness of it was heavy-cold, dirt, sickness, ignorance, and want, were the lords in waiting on the saintly pres-ence-nobles of great power all of them; but, most especially the last.
-- The first was the best room, and in it were Lucie's birds, and flowers, and books, and desk, and work-table, and box of water-colours; the second was the Doctor's consulting-room, used also as the dining-room; the third, changingly speckled by the rus-tle of the plane-tree in the yard, was the Doctor's bedroom, and there, in a corner, stood the disused shoemaker's bench and tray of tools, much as it had stood on the fifth floor of the dismal house by the wine-shop, in the suburb of Saint Antoine in Paris.
-- The great bell of Saint Paul's was striking one in the cleared air, when Mr. Lorry, escorted by Jerry, high-boot-ed and bearing a lantern, set forth on his return-passage to Clerkenwell.
-- The exquisite gentlemen of the finest breeding wore little pendent trinkets that chinked as they languidly moved; these golden fetters rang like precious little bells; and what with that ringing, and with the rustle of silk and brocade and fine linen, there was a flutter in the air that fanned Saint Antoine and his devouring hunger far away.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Countess Lidia Ivanovna went into Seryozha's part of the house, and dropping tears on the scared child's cheeks, she told him that his father was a saint and his mother was dead.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Between the Union Pacific road and the branch which unites Kearney with Saint Joseph it formed a great uninhabited island.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- More terrible than their rage is the people's laughter, and if it rends tyrants, with equal zest it pursues the saint and wise man and befouls their treasure.
-- 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.
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：
-- You need not be a saint to make pots, believe me!And why, why should we let our chance slip!Why, I know and I kept the secret two or three books which one might get a hundred roubles simply for thinking of translating and publishing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were sitting as before, one evening (when my mother was outas before), in company with the stocking and the yard measure,and the bit of wax, and the box with Saint Paul's on the lid, and thecrocodile book, when Peggotty, after looking at me several times,and opening her mouth as if she were going to speak, withoutdoing it- which I thought was merely gaping, or I should havebeen rather alarmed- said coaxingly'Master Davy, how should youlike to go along with me and spend a fortnight at my brother's atYarmouth?
-- Peggotty at her needlework was asmuch at home with Saint Paul's and the bit of wax-candle, as ifthey had never known any other roof.
-- She had fallen back, already, on the society of the work-boxwith Saint Paul's upon the lid, the yard-measure in the cottage, andthe bit of wax candle: and there they all were, just as if they hadnever been disturbed.
-- My shortest way home,- and I naturally took the shortest way onsuch a nightwas through Saint Martin's Lane.
-- '-At Saint Alphage,Canterbury,' observed Mrs. Markleham.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Flossy catkins of the later kinds, fern-sprouts like bishops' croziers, the square-headed moschatel, the odd cuckoo-pint, like an apoplectic saint in a niche of malachite, snow-white ladies'-smocks, the toothwort, approximating to human flesh, the enchanter's night-shade, and the black-petaled doleful-bells, were among the quainter objects of the vegetable world in and about Weatherbury at this teeming time; and of the animal, the metamorphosed figures of Mr. Jan Coggan, the master-shearer; the second and third shearers, who travelled in the exercise of their calling, and do not require definition by name; Henery Fray the fourth shearer, Susan Tall's husband the fifth, Joseph Poorgrass the sixth, young Cain Ball as assistant-shearer, and Gabriel Oak as general supervisor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, I rubbed it off with all possible speed by turning into a street where I saw the great black dome of Saint Paul's bulging at me from behind a grim stone building which a bystander said was Newgate Prison.
-- As I shut it, Saint Paul's, and all the many church-clocks in the City--some leading, some accompanying, some following--struck that hour.
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：
-- Saint George of Cappadocia was nothing to you, in her eyes.'
-- I'm like Saint Bernard, who could sail down the lake of Lucerne without ever noticing that there were even mountain and green wa-ter.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Father of the MarshalseaThirty years ago there stood, a few doors short of the church of Saint George, in the borough of Southwark, on the left-hand side of the way going southward, the Marshalsea Prison.
-- Thus it came to pass that she was christened one Sunday afternoon, when the turnkey, being relieved, was off the lock; and that the turnkey went up to the font of Saint George's Church, and promised and vowed and renounced on her behalf, as he himself related when he came back, 'like a good 'un.'
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