Reverent

(adj.) feeling or showing profound respect or veneration; 'maintained a reverent silence' .

整理:米歇尔

• I touch, with reverent finger, the actual spot where the infant Jesus lay, but I think--nothing. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• A reverent old patriarch man as you be--seventy if a day--to go hornpiping like that by yourself! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• If tradition were a reverent record of those crucial moments when men burst through their habits, a love of the past would not be the butt on which every sophomoric radical can practice his wit. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• At the end, the Germans were all touched with admiring, delicious melancholy, they praised her in soft, reverent voices, they could not say too much. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• What reverent and what worshiping looks they bent upon that dread, mysterious power, the Doctor! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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