Saint
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英[seɪnt]
|美[sent]
n.圣人般的人(指特别善良、仁爱或有耐性的人);圣…(冠于人名、地名之前);(因其生死言行而被基督教会追封的)圣人;圣徒
vt.成为圣徒;把…视为圣徒
日语:聖人
法语:Saint
德语:Heilige
韩语:성자
俄语:Smo.
牛津词典
noun
- (因其言行而被基督教会追封的)圣人,圣徒
a person that the Christian Church recognizes as being very holy, because of the way they have lived or died
- St John
圣约翰 - St Valentine's Day
圣瓦伦廷节(情人节) - The children were all named after saints.
这些孩子都取了圣徒的名字。
- 圣人般的人(指特别善良、仁爱或有耐性的人)
a very good, kind or patient person
- She's a saint to go on living with that man.
能继续和那个男人一起生活,她简直是圣人。 - His behaviour would try the patience of a saint .
他的行为就是再有修养的人也难以忍受。
词形变化
名词复数形式:saints 现在分词:sainting 过去式:sainted 第三人称单数:saints 过去分词:sainted
中文词源
saint 圣人,圣徒
来自古法语 saint,圣人,圣徒,来自拉丁语 sanctus,神圣的,封圣的,词源同 sacred,sanctify. 拼写比较 point,puncture.
双语例句
- The Dutch developed a custom by which children put out shoes which Saint Nicholas would fill with gifts when he came visiting.
荷兰人有一套自己的风俗,孩子们会将鞋子放在外面,圣诞老人到来时便会在里面装满礼品。
- Unfortunately the public conflated fiction with reality and made her into a saint
不幸的是,公众把小说和现实混为一谈,把她当成了圣徒。
- I've had enough — there are limits even for the patience of a saint!
我已经受够了——即使是圣人忍耐也是有限的!
- Every year they put a play on at Saint Holy Cross Church
他们每年在圣十字教堂上演一出剧目。
- I feel that she would try the patience of a saint.
我觉得圣人都能被她逼疯。
- Chiswick church is dedicated to St Nicholas, patron saint of sailors.
奇西克教堂为水手的守护神圣尼古拉而建。
- Every parish was named after a saint.
每个教区都以某位圣徒的名字命名。
- My girlfriend is a saint to put up with me.
能够忍受我,我的女朋友真的很有耐心。
- I am no saint.
我绝非圣贤。
- She is a real saint.
她是一个道德高尚的人。
- He was made a saint.
他被封为圣人。
- She is your sister in the flesh& worthless and castaway as she is, she is the daughter of a saint in heaven.
她是你的亲妹妹。不管她怎样没出息,怎样堕落,她也是一个圣徒的女儿。
- Saint Joan of arc isn't simple person.
圣女贞德不是一个普通的人。
- They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.
他们又在营中嫉妒摩西,和耶和华的圣者亚伦。
- The saint said, You tied up the donkey, but did you untie him?
圣人说:你把驴拴好了,可你给它解绳子了吗?
- The potter did what the saint had said.
陶工按照圣人说的做了。
- You're a saint. I'll call you back.
你太伟大了,我等会打电话给你。
- You made me want to be a saint.
你使我想当一个圣人。
- Are you really a saint?
你真的是一个圣人吗?
- This man, joe, is a saint of the right.
这个人,乔,是个正义的圣人。
- Knock it off, if you are, then I am a saint.
少来了,如果你是处男,我就是圣人了。
- I'm not a miracle, and you are not a saint.
我不是奇迹,而你也不是圣徒。
- Companion of St. Michael and St. George St. George is the Patron Saint of England.
圣迈克尔和圣乔治三等勋章圣乔治是英格兰的守护神。
- Oh you are a saint, fetching my slippers for me.
哦你把拖鞋给我拿来了,真是个大好人。
- I had gone, the patron saint of the tree has been looking at you.
在我走了以后,守护神一直在树旁看着你。
- Today I have the patience of a saint.
今天我有圣人的耐心。
- Nickname for Saint Paul and Minneapolis.
对圣保罗和明尼阿波利斯的昵称。
- Thanks, Tom. You're a saint.
太感谢了,汤姆。你真是圣人。
- I guess I should head back to Saint louis.
我想我该回圣路易市了。
- I know that I am very bad. I am not a saint.
我知道我很怀,但是我不是圣人。
语源
Middle English, from Old French seint, from Latin sanctusholy, past participle of sancireconsecrate