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 pious ['paiəs]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 虔诚的, 敬神的, 尽责的, 可嘉的, 不可能实现的

  1. He is a pious Christian.
    他是一名虔诚的基督教徒。
  2. Having great reverence for God; pious.
    虔诚的敬神的;虔诚的


pious
[ adj ]
having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity
<adj.all>
pious readings


Pious \Pi"ous\, a. [L. pius: cf. F. pieux.]
1. Of or pertaining to piety; exhibiting piety; reverential;
dutiful; religious; devout; godly. ``Pious hearts.''
--Milton. ``Pious poetry.'' --Johnson.

Where was the martial brother's pious care? --Pope.

2. Practiced under the pretext of religion; prompted by
mistaken piety; as, pious errors; pious frauds.

Syn: Godly; devout; religious; righteous.

  1. By all accounts, Judge Souter is a very nice man: kind to friends and family; a quietly pious fellow; a hard worker; an old-fashioned frugal Yankee.
  2. Miller argued that List, a pious and strictly raised Lutheran, was watching his "whole world falling to pieces" when an "obsessive-compulsive" personality disorder _ combined with twisted religious belief _ forced him to act.
  3. They are quiet, almost pious.
  4. Yet since that pious call for a lively public discussion, the Journal has lapsed into near editorial silence.
  5. "Probably the way he will be remembered is as a pious monk rather than as a dynamic church leader," said Jane Ellis, a scholar at Keston College Center for the Study of Religion and Communism, based in Britain.
  6. For the weaker insurance companies, that deadline looks pious.
  7. Woody Allen, who supports mayoral candidate David Dinkins, says recent remarks by fellow comic Jackie Mason, who supports Dinkins' Republican opponent, were distorted by a "foolish and pious" media.
  8. America was ready for military rebuilding, tax cuts, deregulation, a slowdown in the government's growth rate, and the projection beyond our borders of power rather than mere pious bulls.
  9. On the women's faces we read maternal love and pious resignation, for above their heads play three golden-haired angels, the infants who had not lived.
  10. Witnesses testified he was a mild-mannered, deeply pious and strictly raised Lutheran born in a hard-working German immigrant community in Bay City, Mich. He was a history buff deeply involved in his church who loved to play war games.
  11. How can such a love of complexity, of the parodic and grotesque, be reconciled with texts which were generally of a devotional nature, and were commissioned by pious men and women?
  12. All bear a desire to witness what most consider a bizarre yet pious mystery.
  13. Who are these black and white characters talking and even joking together without having to clown and preach their way through a script of goofy one-liners punctuated by pious social-message sermonettes?
  14. From 1986 to 1988, drug arrests doubled and violent crime rose 29 percent, partly because alcohol is more accepted by "traditionally reserved and pious Norwegians," Christie said.
  15. "Even if Salman Rushdie repents and becomes the most pious man of time it is incumbent on every Moslem (to) employ everything he's got, his life and wealth, to send him to hell," Khomeini was quoted as saying.
  16. "Even if Salman Rushdie repents and becomes the most pious man of all time it is incumbent on every Moslem to employ everything he's got, his life and wealth, to send him to hell." _Khomeini.
  17. People say that the general secretary's mother is pious and that the general secretary himself was baptized.
  18. There are pious moralisms in public statements and, at times, an anything goes attitude behind the scenes.
  19. He was a figure with whom ordinary Turkish citizens could identify, including many of those who were proud to be Kurds, or pious Moslems, or indeed both.
  20. To the demands of an outraged public opinion for intervention, the administration responds with pious arguments about non-interference in internal affairs and the danger of embroilment.
  21. They are judicial murders, pious murders." Director Yossi Yzraely has either never read Shaw's dictum, or has ignored it, because in "The Crucible" he falls precisely into the trap Shaw cautions against.
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