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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, I have to attempt a curious and important journey, the plan of which has been drawn up by my learned friend and colleague, M. Vivien de Saint Martin.
-- And M. Vivien de Saint Martin?
-- "Then the DUNCAN is to cruise between Corrientes and Cape Saint Antonie," said John Mangles.
-- "If you read certain passages of Saint Jerome, on the Atticoli of Scotland, you will see what he thought of your forefathers.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said returning, 'you logic-chopping, chalky-faced saint of an atheist, drink!'
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：
-- Hawkeye calls the Lac du Saint Sacrement, the 'Horican.'
-- Near its southern termina-tion, it received the contributions of another lake, whose waters were so limpid as to have been exclusively selected by the Jesuit missionaries to perform the typical purifica-tion of baptism, and to obtain for it the title of lake 'du Saint Sacrement.'
-- Your mother was the only child of my bosom friend, Duncan; and I'll just give you a hearing, though all the knights of St. Louis were in a body at the sally-port, with the French saint at their head, crying to speak a word under favor.
-- But she is a saint in heav-en, sir; and it ill becomes one whose foot rests on the grave to mourn a lot so blessed.
-- But the task would exceed our prerog-atives; and, as history, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness, it is probable that Louis de Saint Veran will be viewed by pos-terity only as the gallant defender of his country, while his cruel apathy on the shores of the Oswego and of the Hori-can will be forgotten.
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：
-- Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That constant pacing to and fro, that never-ending restlessness, that incessant tread of feet wearing the rough stones smooth and glossy is it not a wonder how the dwellers in narrows ways can bear to hear it!Think of a sick man in such a place as Saint Martin's Court, listening to the footsteps, and in the midst of pain and weariness obliged, despite himself (as though it were a task he must perform) to detect the child's step from the man's, the slipshod beggar from the booted exquisite, the lounging from the busy, the dull heel of the sauntering outcast from the quick tread of an expectant pleasure-seeker think of the hum and noise always being present to his sense, and of the stream of life that will not stop, pouring on, on, on, through all his restless dreams, as if he were condemned to lie, dead but conscious, in a noisy churchyard, and had no hope of rest for centuries to come.
-- Then came a turnpike; then fields again with trees and hay-stacks; then, a hill, and on the top of that, the traveller might stop, and looking back at old Saint Paul's looming through the smoke, its cross peeping above the cloud (if the day were clear), and glittering in the sun; and casting his eyes upon the Babel out of which it grew until he traced it down to the furthest outposts of the invading army of bricks and mortar whose station lay for the present nearly at his feet might feel at last that he was clear of London.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was the life, and this the history, of Little Dorrit; turning at the end of London Bridge, recrossing it, going back again, passing on to Saint George's Church, turning back suddenly once more, and flitting in at the open outer gate and little court-yard of the Marshalsea.
-- He turned slowly down Aldersgate Street, and was pondering his way along towards Saint Paul's, purposing to come into one of the great thoroughfares for the sake of their light and life, when a crowd of people flocked towards him on the same pavement, and he stood aside against a shop to let them pass.
-- Arthur Clennam turned; and walking beside the litter, and saying an encouraging word now and then, accompanied it to the neighbouring hospital of Saint Bartholomew.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She would like the relics of great people better, for I've seen her Napoleon's cocked hat and gray coat, his baby's cradle and his old toothbrush, also Marie Antoi-nette's little shoe, the ring of Saint Denis, Charlemagne's sword, and many other interesting things.
-- I'm not jealous, dear, do your best, only don't make a saint of him.
-- 'Saint Laurence on a gridiron,' added Laurie, blandly finishing the sentence.
-- Here, cherished like a household saint in its shrine, sat Beth, tranquil and busy as ever, for nothing could change the sweet, unselfish nature, and even while preparing to leave life, she tried to make it happier for those who should remain behind.
-- with a half-repentant, half-amused expression, Laurie gathered up all Jo's letters, smoothed, folded, and put them neatly into a small drawer of the desk, stood a minute turning the ring thoughtfully on his finger, then slowly drew it off, laid it with the letters, locked the drawer, and went out to hear High Mass at Saint Stefan's, feeling as if there had been a funeral, and though not overwhelmed with affliction, this seemed a more proper way to spend the rest of the day than in writing letters to charming young ladies.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In Saint Stylites, the famous Christian hermit of old times, who built him a lofty stone pillar in the desert and spent the whole latter portion of his life on its summit, hoisting his food from the ground with a tackle; in him we have a remarkable instance of a dauntless stander-of-mast-heads; who was not to be driven from his place by fogs or frosts, rain, hail, or sleet; but valiantly facing everything out to the last, literally died at his post.
-- Let not the modern paintings of this scene mislead us; for though the creature encountered by that valiant whaleman of old is vaguely represented of a griffin-like shape, and though the battle is depicted on land and the saint on horseback, yet considering the great ignorance of those times, when the true form of the whale was unknown to artists; and considering that as in Perseus' case, St. George's whale might have crawled up out of the sea on the beach; and considering that the animal ridden by St. George might have been only a large seal, or sea-horse; bearing all this in mind, it will not appear altogether incompatible with the sacred legend and the ancientest draughts of the scene, to hold this so-called dragon no other than the great Leviathan himself.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wish WE'D a had the handling of Louis XVI., there wouldn't a been no 'Son of Saint Louis, ascend to heaven!'
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