An environment which would have made a contented woman a poet, a suffering woman a devotee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine.

荒原这种环境，可以使心满意足的女人成为诗人，受苦受难的女人成为修女，虔笃信的女人谱，甚至能叫轻佻的女人冷静深思，使桀骛不驯的女人忧郁阴沉。

Is emptied of its folk, this pious morn?

来了这些人，在这敬神的清早？

Beyond that, only pious hope remained.

除此之外，仅余几分虔的希望了。

Here's a painter who understood what was like to live inside the grimy skin of the poor and the pious.

这个画家，他能穿透那些穷人和虔者肮脏的外表直指内心。

And whilst she read with a pious mind, the wind bore the strains of the organ towards her, and she raised her tearful countenance, and said, " Oh God, help me! "

当她虔地读里面的字句时，风儿把教堂的风琴声向她吹过来。她抬起布满泪水的脸，说道：" 上帝啊，请帮助我！"

Only seven candidates, mostly hardline and pious, were allowed on the ballot.

只有七候选人获准参加投票，他们大多是强硬派和务实派。

Hasids belong to a particularly pious and spiritual sect of Judaism.

哈西德人属于一个特别虔的犹太教精神派别。

As an antidote to the focus on conspicuous consumption, van Eyck also stresses the pious nature of the couple by using more than one biblical reference.

作为对炫耀性消费关注的一种矫正，凡·艾克还强调了这对夫妇的虔本性，引用了不止一个经内容。

Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?

来了这些人，在这虔的清晨？

Apart from all else, he knew it deeply pained his beloved and pious wife.

除此之外，他还深深地伤害了他虔的爱妻。

It speaks for a country where the hierarchy is reeling from horrific revelations about abuse in church-run institutions and clerical cover-ups, but where the population, despite the onrush of secularism, remains relatively pious by the standards of the rich world.

教会机构陋习和神职人员丑闻的曝光使爱尔兰的管理层深受折磨，但是，尽管世俗义盛行，在富裕国家的标准看来，相对来说，爱尔兰人民依然保持着虔。教神父协会就是代表了这样一个国家。

I have it in my hand or, at least, I have in my hand one of the dozen or so glass beakers, all strikingly similar, which were identified by the pious as the vessels from which Hedwig had drunk.

我们所收藏的玻璃杯与其说是一个水杯，倒不如说更像是个小号的花瓶。它是世上仅存的约十二个外观酷似的玻璃杯中的一个，这些杯子被虔的信徒认定曾为海德薇所使用。

In spite of her small vanities, Margaret had a sweet and pious nature, which unconsciously influenced her sisters, especially Jo, who loved her very tenderly, and obeyed her because her advice was so gently given.

玛格丽特虽有些虚荣之处，秉性却和蔼可亲而虔，无意中这种性格也影响了妹妹们，尤其是乔。而乔既温柔地爱着她，也听她的话，因为她的忠告总提得那样挚。

" A pious sentiment, Damphair, " said Goodbrother, " but not one that your brother shares. He had Sawane Botley drowned for saying that the Seastone Chair by rights belonged to Theon" .

" 如果他被淹了，那便没有流血。" 伊伦说。

To pious Puritans and humble Quakers this was obviously a sign from heaven or hell, but Ben had a more lofty explanation: Uh, tallest point in town anybody?

对于虔的清教徒和谦逊的贵格会教徒来说，这显然是来自堂或地狱的预兆，但本有一个更崇高的解释：呃，各位，那是镇上最高的地方吗？

Good God, you fool! And as for you, giving yourself pious airs about your motherhood, why, a cat's a better mother than you! What have you ever done for the children?

不是吗，作为一个母亲，你还不如一只猫呢！你几时给孩子们做过些什么？

But regardless of how the schism ended, its existence proves that even those who are supposed to be pious are prone to petty power struggles.

但不论纷争如何收尾，它的存在证明，即使是那些被认为是虔的人，也很容易发生小规模的权力斗争。

Gently he insinuates his vast bulk among them again and revels there awhile, still in tantalizing vicinity to young Lothario, like pious Solomon devoutly worshipping among his thousand concubines.

它那巨大的身躯又在它们中间温柔地绕来绕去，纵情陶醉一番，同时逗弄着留在附近的年轻登徒子，就像虔敬的所罗门王在他无数嫔妃中虔地做礼拜一样。

Elephants were bathing in the waters of the sacred river, and groups of Indians, despite the advanced season and chilly air, were performing solemnly their pious ablutions.

几只大象和一些单峰的骆驼正在河里洗澡，虽然只是初秋，气已相当寒冷，却还有成群的男女在恒河里虔地领受洗。

He believed in it as certain pious women believe in the leviathan from the Book of Job-out of faith, not reason.

他相信这动物的存在就像许多老实妇女相信有海怪一样，完全是出于信仰，而不是由于理智。