saints

英 [seɪnts]

美 [seɪnts]

n.  (因其言行而被基督教会追封的)圣人，圣徒; 圣人般的人(指特别善良、仁爱或有耐性的人)
saint的复数

柯林斯词典

The title is usually pronounced /sənt/. 用作头衔时通常读作 /sənt/。


• N-COUNT; N-TITLE (基督教正式追封的)圣徒，圣人
  Asaintis someone who has died and been officially recognized and honoured by the Christian church because his or her life was a perfect example of the way Christians should live.
  1. Every parish was named after a saint.
     每个教区都以某位圣徒的名字命名。
  2. ...Saint John.
     圣约翰
• N-COUNT 至善的人;极有耐心的人;道德高尚的人;圣人般的人
  If you refer to a living person as asaint, you mean that they are extremely kind, patient, and unselfish.
  1. 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。

双语例句

• The course catalog invites you to "lust with the saints and burn with the sinners".
  课程目录将邀你“与圣人一起放纵欲望，并和罪人一起在烈火中饱受煎熬”。
• It was taught that Christ and some of the saints had achieved more than perfect obedience.
  据说，基督和一些圣人已经获得了彻底的顺从。
• I was supposed to do the angels and two saints.
  我本来想画它的和另外两个圣人的。
• Love the Lord, all his saints!
  耶和华的圣民哪，你们都要爱他。
• That ye be not seduced to offer your petitions to strange gods, as saints, stocks and stones.
  你不要被诱惑将奇异的神作为圣人和偶像来祈求。
• But that is what most saints and monks believe.
  但是这就是多数圣人和僧人们所相信的。
• Such honour have all His saints!
  衪①所有的圣徒有这种光荣的！
• Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
  圣徒的忍耐和信心，就是在此。
• Everybody has this, not just the saints and angels.
  每个人都有的，不只是圣人和天使才有这玩意。
• After the reformation, Catholic saints were confused with local deities and revered as "gods".
  在改革以后，天主教神圣和当地的神被混淆起来，被尊为“上帝”。