He was brought up by pious female relatives.

他是由虔诚的女性亲属抚养大的。

Catherine was a pious, earnest woman.

凯瑟琳是位虔诚、真挚的女子。

Such reforms seem likely to remain little more than pious hopes.

这类改革可能只是画饼充饥而已。

Okay? Not pious tales.

知道吗？，不是寓言故事。

That may be no more than another pious wish.

那可能只是另一种虔诚的愿望。

But Italians are less pious than they pretend.

但意大利人并不像他们装得那样虔诚。

Sometimes, however, they sounded pious and insincere.

然而，有时候，他们听起来是那么的虚伪，那么的没有诚意。

This is wildly inappropriate, I think, in such a pious poem.

在这样一首严肃的诗中，这是很不合适的。

Last year, Ismail described Sadah to journalist Hala Jaber as pious.

去年，在记者哈拉·贾伯面前，伊斯·玛尔对萨达的描述是：虔诚。

Resentment has spread from Chinese and Indians to poor or pious Malays.

从华人印度人，到劳苦大众，到虔诚的马来人，无不心中激起怒火。

Romans really did believe that they were the most pious nation on earth.

罗马人非常相信,他们是地球上最虔诚的国家。

"Yea, to another world," replied the minister, with pious resignation.

“是啊，到另一个世界去了，”牧师带着一切全都听天由命的神气回答说。

There is this very pious Jew named Goldberg who always dreamed of winning the lottery.

有一个非常虔诚的犹太人，名叫戈德堡，老是梦想中彩票。

She'll be saved from the dangers of childbirth if she lives a pious and holy life.

经历过生育的危险后，她将得救，如果她圣洁自守。

Some feared that Solar’s subject – global warming – would make a rather pious book.

一些人担心该书的题材--全球变暖--使其变得虚伪。

Rolfe was a pious man who agonized for many weeks over the decision to marry a "heathen."

罗尔夫是一个虔诚的人，娶一个异教妻子的决定，让他极度痛苦了好几个星期。

Irish citizens, including pious ones, will never again treat the church as untouchable.

包括虔诚信徒在内的爱尔兰人再也不认为教会神圣不可批判。

PIOUS people in eastern Turkey, where Fethullah Gulen was born, are eager to praise him.

土耳其东部法士拉·葛兰(Fethullah Gulen)[1]出生之地的那些虔诚的民众都急切地赞美他。

Every Sabbath, he'd go to synagogue and pray: "God, I have been such a pious Jew all my life."

每逢安息日，他便会去教堂祈祷：“上帝，我一生都是个虔诚的犹太人。”

The pious man is dubious about the vicious civilian’s vivid description of his vicinity to his wife.

虔诚的男子对邪恶的平民生动的描述他与其妻子的密切（关系）半信半疑。

She was an old, garrulous woman, a pawnbroker's widow, who collected used stamps for some pious purpose.

她上了年纪，好唠叨，她故去的丈夫是典当商，为了某种虔诚的原因收集邮票。

Another meeting is scheduled for next month, from which we probably can expect yet more pious words.

下个月还要开会，我们或许只能指望它的措辞显得更加一本正经。

I delighted to confront a pious lady who hated the Germans with the proposition that we should love our enemies.

我以驳斥一位憎恨德国人却主张爱我们的敌人的虔诚女士为乐。

Only pious prigs care about when he chooses to get married, or to sign his children's birth certificates, or whatever.

当他选择结婚生子等事情的时候，只有一些虔诚的正人君子关注。

Death is ugly, and we cannot-indeed, should not-try to make it palatable or explain it away with pious platitudes.

死亡是令人厌恶的，而我们不能——确实不应该——尝试使其成为愉快的事，或用伪善的陈词滥调对其加以解释。

Born at Aosta in Burgundy, Anselm was a pious child and sought admission to the monastic life at the early age of 15.

安瑟伦出生在奥斯塔的勃艮第。15岁时他是个虔诚的孩子，一心向往修道院的生活。