saintly

常見例句

However, once married, his partner assumed the role of the saintly mother.
然而，一旦他們結(jié)婚了，妻子的角色突然變成了圣潔的母親。
On the ooze at the water's edge stand the saintly-looking paddy birds in meditation.
圣潔的池鷺站在水邊的淤泥中若有所思。
In contrast, Princess Sirindhorn, his sister, enjoys a saintly image as a patron of charity.
與此形成對比的是，他妹妹詩琳通公主熱心慈善事業(yè)，形象圣潔善良。

so dear to heaven is saintly chastity that heaven doesn't even permit virgins to die.
圣潔的貞操對上天來說很珍貴,以至于上天幾乎不允許處女死去。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選
If we want to know the possibilities for spiritual growth, value growth or moral development in human being, then I maintain that we can learn most by studying our most moral,ethical,or saintly people.
如果想知道心靈成長的可能性，人類價值增長或道德發(fā)展的可能性，那我認為，我們可以研究,最道德或圣潔的人。
哈佛公開課 - 幸福課課程節(jié)選

Given these figures, today's saintly rhetoric needs to be taken with a pinch of salt.
ECONOMIST: Republican fiscal policies
She found something saintly and crazed in his undertaking, an element of self-denial, an element of penance.
NEWYORKER: Laureate of Terror
Mahatma Gandhi, his saintly fellow-worker for independence, was a devout Hindu, but challenged the orthodox with his campaign against untouchability.
ECONOMIST: Millennium issue: Muslims and Hindus