devout

US [dɪˈvaʊt]
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  • adj.笃信宗教的；虔诚的
  • Web虔敬的；诚恳的；热诚的

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Devout
adj.
1.
笃信宗教的；虔诚的believing strongly in a particular religion and obeying its laws and practices
a devout Christian/Muslim
虔诚的基督徒╱穆斯林

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My attitude toward death was captured by the punch line in an old joke about Sister Jones, the most devout woman in her church.
我对死亡的态度，正好与关于琼斯修女的一个老笑话中的一个妙语不谋而合。
wǒ duì sǐ wáng de tài du , zhèng hǎo yǔ guān yú qióng sī xiū nǚ de yī gè lǎo xiào huà zhōng de yī gè miào yǔ bù móu ér hé 。
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2.
And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.
他们中间有些人听了劝，就附从保罗和西拉。并有许多虔敬的希腊人，尊贵的妇女也不少。
tā men zhōng jiān yǒu xiē rén tīng le quàn , jiù fù cóng bǎo luó hé xī lā 。 bìng yǒu xǔ duō qián jìng de xī là rén , zūn guì de fù nǚ yě bù shǎo 。
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3.
INDIA'S prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, is something of a poet as well as a devout Hindu.
印度总理阿塔尔•比哈里•瓦杰帕伊（AtalBehariVajpayee）作为诗人和虔诚的印度人都是了不起的。
yìn dù zǒng lǐ ā tǎ ěr • bǐ hā lǐ • wǎ jié pà yī ( AtalBehariVajpayee ) zuò wéi shī rén hé qián chéng de yìn dù rén dōu shì liǎo bu qǐ de 。
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4.
This, indeed, is one of his main virtues as a politician: he has beliefs, but few are so devout as to be utterly impractical.
这一点确实是他作为一名政客的美德：他有信念，然而过分虔诚反而显得完全不切实际的，倒也没有几个。
zhè yì diǎn què shí shì tā zuò wéi yī míng zhèng kè de měi dé : tā yǒu xìn niàn , rán ér guò fèn qián chéng fǎn ér xiǎn de wán quán bú qiè shí jì de , dào yě méi yǒu jǐ gè 。
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The main difference between the religious and the non-religious was that the devout felt guilty about it.
宗教人士和无神论主要的不同在于是否对此有深刻的负罪感。
zōng jiào rén shì hé wú shén lùn zhǔ yào de bù tóng zài yú shì fǒu duì cǐ yǒu shēn kè de fù zuì gǎn 。
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7When the angel who spoke to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier who was one of his attendants.
向他说话的天使去后，哥尼流叫了两个家人，和常伺候他的一个虔诚兵来。
xiàng tā shuō huà de tiān shǐ qù hòu , gē ní liú jiào le liǎng gè jiā rén , hé cháng cì hou tā de yī gè qián chéng bīng lái 。
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Although she was a devout Catholic, almost all of her characters, haunted, tested, and redeemed, are Protestant.
尽管她是个虔诚的天主教徒，可她所有的性格几乎都是新教徒式的：鬼马、先验和救赎。
jǐn guǎn tā shì gè qián chéng de tiān zhǔ jiào tú , kě tā suǒ yǒu de xìng gé jī hū dōu shì xīn jiào tú shì de : guǐ mǎ 、 xiān yàn hé jiù shú 。
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Though known as a devout Hindu, Gandhi rarely visited temples, and was generally repelled by the rituals and customs of organized religion.
虽然甘地是个虔诚的印度教徒，但是他极少去庙里朝拜，并通常会对有组织的宗教仪式和传统感到反感。
suī rán gān dì shì gè qián chéng de yìn dù jiào tú , dàn shì tā jí shǎo qù miào lǐ cháo bài , bìng tōng cháng huì duì yǒu zǔ zhī de zōng jiào yí shì hé chuán tǒng gǎn dào fǎn gǎn 。
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And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.
那时，有虔诚的犹太人，从天下各国来，住在耶路撒冷。
nà shí , yǒu qián chéng de yóu tài rén , cóng tiān xià gè guó lái , zhù zài yē lù sā lěng 。
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For the devout, Galileo has always been a sensitive subject.
对于信徒来说，伽利略一直都是一个备受争议的敏感话题。
duì yú xìn tú lái shuō , jiā lì lüè yì zhí dōu shì yī gè bèi shòu zhēng yì de mǐn gǎn huà tí 。
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