saint
n. 聖人般的人(指特別善良、仁愛或有耐性的人); 聖…(冠於人名、地名之前); (因其生死言行而被基督教會追封的)聖人; 聖徒
A saint is someone who has died and been officially recognized and honoured by the Christian church because his or her life was a perfect example of the way Christians should live.
Every parish was named after a saint.
每個教區都以某位聖徒的名字命名。
...Saint John.
聖約翰
If you refer to a living person as a saint, you mean that they are extremely kind, patient, and unselfish.
My girlfriend is a saint to put up with me.
能夠忍受我,我的女朋友真的很有耐心。
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
1. hold sacred
2. in the Catholic church; declare (a dead person) to be a saint;
my sainted aunt
見 aunt
This tradition can be traced to legends about Saint Nicholas.
這個傳統來源於聖·尼古拉斯的傳說.
A particularly influential A Visit from Saint Nicholas by Clement Moore in 1823.
卡樂門摩爾於1823年所寫的“聖尼可拉斯的拜訪”這本書對於聖誕老人的傳說有著舉足輕重的影響力.
That history puts a saint in every dream.
那段歷史把一個聖徒帶進每一個夢中.
He could be proclaimed a saint by the turn of the Millennium.
他可能會在千禧年之交被正式宣佈為聖徒.
He passed Saint Joseph's, National school.
他從聖約瑟公立小學跟前走過去.