saint

• n. 圣人；圣徒；道德崇高的人
• adj. 神圣的
• vt. 成为圣徒

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.

1. a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization

2. person of exceptional holiness

3. model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal

saint

saint: [OE] Latin sancīre meant ‘consecrate’ (it was formed from the same base as produced sacer ‘holy’, source of English sacred, sacrifice, etc). Its past participle was sanctus. This came to be used as an adjective meaning ‘holy, sacred’, and in due course as a noun too, ‘holy person’. English originally borrowed it direct from Latin, as sanct, but this was superseded in the 12th century by saint, acquired via Old French. Other English words based on the Latin stem sanctinclude sanction, sanctity, etc, and saunter may be related to saint.
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saint (n.)

early 12c., from Old French saint, seinte "a saint; a holy relic," displacing or altering Old English sanct, both from Latin sanctus "holy, consecrated" (used as a noun in Late Latin; also source of Spanish santo, santa, Italian san, etc.), properly past participle of sancire "consecrate" (see sacred). Adopted into most Germanic languages (Old Frisian sankt, Dutch sint, German Sanct).

Originally an adjective prefixed to the name of a canonized person; by c. 1300 it came to be regarded as a noun. Meaning "person of extraordinary holiness" is recorded from 1560s.

Saint, n. A dead sinner revised and edited. The Duchess of Orleans relates that the irreverent old calumniator, Marshal Villeroi, who in his youth had known St. Francis de Sales, said, on hearing him called saint: 'I am delighted to hear that Monsieur de Sales is a saint. He was fond of saying indelicate things, and used to cheat at cards. In other respects he was a perfect gentleman, though a fool.' [Ambrose Bierce, "Devil's Dictionary," 1911]

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Perhaps you have imagined that this humility in the saints is a pious illusion at which God smiles. That is a most dangerous error. It is theoretically dangerous, because it makes you identify a virtue (i.e., a perfection) with an illusion (i.e., an imperfection), which must be nonsense. It is practically dangerous because it encourages a man to mistake his first insights into his own corruption for the first beginnings of a halo round his own silly head. No, depend upon it; when the saints say that they--even they--are vile, they are recording truth with scientific accuracy. [C.S. Lewis, "The Problem of Pain," 1940]

Saint Bernard, the breed of mastiff dogs (1839), so called because the monks of the hospice of the pass of St. Bernard (between Italy and Switzerland) sent them to rescue snowbound travelers; St. Elmo's Fire "corposant" (1560s) is from Italian fuoco di Sant'Elmo, named for the patron saint of Mediterranean sailors, a corruption of the name of St. Erasmus, an Italian bishop martyred in 303.

saint (v.)

"to enroll (someone) among the saints," late 14c., from saint (n.). Related: Sainted; sainting.

St John

圣约翰

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St Valentine's Day

圣瓦伦廷节（情人节）

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The children were all named after saints.

这些孩子都取了圣徒的名字。

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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。

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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。

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Every parish was named after a saint.

每个教区都以某位圣徒的名字命名。

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...Saint John.

圣约翰

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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。

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This tradition can be traced to legends about Saint Nicholas.

这个传统来源于圣·尼古拉斯的传说.

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A particularly influential A Visit from Saint Nicholas by Clement Moore in 1823.

卡乐门摩尔于1823年所写的“圣尼可拉斯的拜访”这本书对于圣诞老人的传说有著举足轻重的影响力.

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That history puts a saint in every dream.

那段历史把一个圣徒带进每一个梦中.

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He could be proclaimed a saint by the turn of the Millennium.

他可能会在千禧年之交被正式宣布为圣徒.

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He passed Saint Joseph's, National school.

他从圣约瑟公立小学跟前走过去.

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Joan of Arc was made a saint in 1920.

1920年,贞德被追封为圣女.

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The drum's was the only voice in Saint Antoine that blood and hurry had not changed.

大鼓的声音是唯一不曾为流血与忙乱而改变的声音.

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He became a special saint for children.

他成为孩子们心中的一位特别的圣人.

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A saint is one who lives in eternal experience of this all pervading divine purpose.

圣人就是其一,他活在无处不在的神性目的永恒的体验中.

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He is obviously a gangster, but he pretends to be a saint.

分明是强盗, 却要装圣贤.

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Your aunt is a saint, and hasn't two ideas to knock against each other.

你的伯母是一个理路不清的老虔婆.

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The saint had a lowly heart.

圣人有谦诚之心.

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Growing up with Saint Seiya and Dragon Ball, Xia had always dreamed of becoming a cartoonist.

看着《圣斗士星矢》和《七龙珠》长大的夏达梦想着能成为一位漫画家.

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There once was a man named Saint Nicholas.

从前有个叫圣·尼古拉斯的人.

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There seems to be an aura of holiness about the Indian saint.

在那印度圣人的四周似乎有一种神圣的气氛.

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July 15 is Saint Swithin Day in England.

7月15日是英国的圣斯韦辛日.

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Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint.

我年轻时的确热心于和圣贤经常来往.

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He was made a saint.

他被封为圣人.

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