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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Listen," said Kai-Koumou, "the Tohonga, the chief priest of Noui-Atoua has fallen into the hands of your brethren; he is a prisoner among the Pakekas.
-- "I am neither a chief nor a priest among my own people."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A priest went about among them with a cross: and there was about five minutes of time left for him to live.
-- 'At the scaffold there is a ladder, and just there he burst into tears and this was a strong man, and a terribly wick-ed one, they say!There was a priest with him the whole time, talking; even in the cart as they drove along, he talked and talked.
-- Well, when this terrible feeling came over him, the priest quickly pressed the cross to his lips, without a word a little silver cross it wasand he kept on pressing it to the man's lips every second.
-- The priest is holding the cross to his blue lips, and the criminal kisses it, and knows and sees and understands everything.
-- The cross and the head there's your picture; the priest and the execution-er, with his two assistants, and a few heads and eyes below.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On this the rest of the Achaeans with one voice were for respecting the priest and taking the ransom that he offered; but not so Agamemnon, who spoke fiercely to him and sent him roughly away.
-- Let us ask some priest or prophet, or some reader of dreams (for dreams, too, are of Jove) who can tell us why Phoebus Apollo is so angry, and say whether it is for some vow that we have bro-ken, or hecatomb that we have not offered, and whether he will accept the savour of lambs and goats without blemish, so as to take away the plague from us.'
-- The sons of the Achaeans shared it duly among themselves, and chose lovely Chryseis as the meed of Agamemnon; but Chryses, priest of Apollo, came to the ships of the Achae-ans to free his daughter, and brought with him a great ransom: moreover he bore in his hand the sceptre of Apol-lo, wreathed with a suppliant's wreath, and he besought the Achaeans, but most of all the two sons of Atreus who were their chiefs.
-- 'On this the rest of the Achaeans with one voice were for respecting the priest and taking the ransom that he offered; but not so Agamemnon, who spoke fiercely to him and sent him roughly away.
-- Now there was a certain rich and honourable man among the Trojans, priest of Vulcan, and his name was Dares.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The priest came to the gate, and with him at least a hundred people, who stared and talked and shouted and pointed at Mowgli.
-- The priest was a clever man, and he knew that Messua was wife to the richest villager in the place.
-- Take the boy into thy house, my sister, and forget not to honor the priest who sees so far into the lives of men.'
-- When the priest scolded him, Mowgli threatened to put him on the donkey too, and the priest told Messua's husband that Mowgli had better be set to work as soon as possible; and the village head-man told Mowgli that he would have to go out with the buffaloes next day, and herd them while they grazed.
-- When he got to the village he told a tale of magic and enchantment and sorcery that made the priest look very grave.
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：
-- 'Tis the tooting we'pon of the singer!now we shall have a trail a priest might travel,' he said.
-- A conjurer must have his time, like a straggling priest in the settlements.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In like manner, when the aforesaid antiquaries did argue and contend that a certain secret vault was not the tomb of a grey-haired lady who had been hanged and drawn and quartered by glorious Queen Bess for succouring a wretched priest who fainted of thirst and hunger at her door, the bachelor did solemnly maintain, against all comers, that the church was hallowed by the said poor lady's ashes; that her remains had been collected in the night from four of the city's gates, and thither in secret brought, and there deposited; and the bachelor did further (being highly excited at such times) deny the glory of Queen Bess, and assert the immeasurably greater glory of the meanest woman in her realm, who had a merciful and tender heart.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he straightened his sleeve and called on the priest to swear in the jury.
-- An old little priest with a swollen, pale yellow face, in a brown cassock and gold cross on his breast and some small badges pinned to the cassock, slowly moving his swollen feet under the cassock, approached the reading desk under the image.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "'Nay,' said Don Sebastian; 'but I know a worthy priest near by, who will quickly procure one for me.
-- "'Will you be so good as to bring the priest also, Don?'
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