priest是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 教士， 神父，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She noticed, too, that when she had found a Catholic priest with her, Madame Stahl had studiously kept her face in the shadow of the lamp- shade and had smiled in a peculiar way.
-- On the morning, however, all was happily arranged, and towards ten o'clock--the time at which they had asked the priest to wait for them for the mass--the children in their new dresses, with beaming faces stood on the step before the carriage waiting for their mother.
-- the priest went on, turning his eyes away from Levin's face and folding his hands under his stole.
-- The priest waited a few seconds to see if he would not say more, and closing his eyes he said quickly, with a broad, Vladimirsky accent: "Doubt is natural to the weakness of mankind, but we must pray that God in His mercy will strengthen us.
-- "Doubt is natural to the weakness of mankind," the priest repeated the same words.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The agile Frenchman was soon upon his feet again, and lost no time in knocking down two of his long-gowned adversaries with his fists and a vigorous application of his toes; then, rushing out of the pagoda as fast as his legs could carry him, he soon escaped the third priest by mingling with the crowd in the streets.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Like a priest of diabolic mysteries, he drew out the blackened blood with a pipette.
-- Toward the end of Senior year, decision became necessary, and he was moved by a speech in which Dean Silva condemned too much specialization and pictured the fine old country doctor, priest and father of his people, sane under open skies, serene in self-conquest.
-- I tell you a priest or a preacher can send you an awful lot of business."
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：
-- He loved that church, the old-fashioned, unadorned ikons and the old priest with the shaking head.
-- The priest stepped back and turned to say a few words of admonition and consolation to Katerina Iva-novna on leaving.
-- 'God is merciful; look to the Most High for succour,' the priest began.
-- The priest bowed his head and said nothing.
-- 'The doctor and the priest have been, all as it should have been.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "A ceremony before a priest doesn't make a marriage.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I have seen,' he said, 'the most beautiful scenes of my own country; I have visited the lakes of Lucerne and Uri, where the snowy mountains descend almost perpendicularly to the water, casting black and impenetrable shades, which would cause a gloomy and mournful appearance were it not for the most verdant islands that relieve the eye by their gay appearance; I have seen this lake agitated by a tempest, when the wind tore up whirlwinds of water and gave you an idea of what the water-spout must be on the great ocean; and the waves dash 188 Frankensteinwith fury the base of the mountain, where the priest and his mistress were overwhelmed by an avalanche and where their dying voices are still said to be heard amid the pauses of the nightly wind; I have seen the mountains of La Valais, and the Pays de Vaud; but this country, Victor, pleases me more than all those wonders.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of course, shewould have to be remarried by a priest from Atlanta, but that would be something for Ellen and Gerald to worry about.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was led forth, and a priest was brought who was to say a mass for his soul.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was an ugly priest by torchlight; of a lowering aspect, with an overhanging brow; and as his eyes met those of Mr Dorrit, looking bareheaded out of the carriage, his lips, moving as they chaunted, seemed to threaten that important traveller; likewise the action of his hand, which was in fact his manner of returning the traveller's salutation, seemed to come in aid of that menace.
-- So thought Mr Dorrit, made fanciful by the weariness of building and travelling, as the priest drifted past him, and the procession straggled away, taking its dead along with it.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The revel was at its height when a priest appeared, and withdrawing the young pair to an alcove, hung with purple velvet, he motioned them to kneel.
-- as they all sat together in her sunny room, the babies kicking and crowing on the floor, mother and sisters working near, and father reading, in his pleasant voice, from the wise old books which seemed rich in good and comfortable words, as applicable now as when written centuries ago, a little cha-pel, where a paternal priest taught his flock the hard lessons all must learn, trying to show them that hope can comfort love, and faith make resignation possible.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well; when all the wedding guests were assembled at the bride's bamboo cottage, this Captain marches in, and being assigned the post of honor, placed himself over against the punchbowl, and between the High Priest and his majesty the King, Queequeg's father.
-- Grace being said, for those people have their grace as well as we though Queequeg told me that unlike us, who at such times look downwards to our platters, they, on the contrary, copying the ducks, glance upwards to the great Giver of all feasts Grace, I say, being said, the High Priest opens the banquet by the immemorial ceremony of the island; that is, dipping his consecrated and consecrating fingers into the bowl before the blessed beverage circulates.
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