sainthood

1. N-UNCOUNT 圣徒身份
   Sainthood is the state of being a saint.
   1. His elevation to sainthood is entirely justified.
      他荣升为圣徒是有充分理由的。
   2. ...a candidate for sainthood.
      圣徒候选人

1. His elevation to sainthood is entirely justified.
   他荣升为圣徒是有充分理由的。
2. But on the point of his own sainthood, Mandela actually agreed with de Klerk: "I was not a Messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances."
   但就自己获得的圣徒美誉这一点而言，曼德拉其实同意德克勒克的观点：“我不是救世主，而是一位因特殊情势演变为领导者的普通人。”
3. Contrary to popular book titles, there are no Easy Steps to Maturity or Secrets of Instant Sainthood.
   与很多畅销书名正好相反的，没有所谓的成长捷径或立时成圣的秘诀。
4. Your grace in overlooking the mistakes and flaws of your friends will elevate you to sainthood.
   宽容好友的缺点与瑕疵的风度会将你提升至圣人的高度。
5. Pope Benedict XVI puts his predecessor John Paul II on the fast track for sainthood, overriding the usual waiting period.
   新教皇跨过常规的等待期，快速继任前任的圣徒地位。
6. Or does his elevation to near sainthood say everything about the modern world and our obsession with needless gadgets?
   或者说，他被神化这一事实能否反应当代社会以及我们对并不必须的玩意的痴迷程度呢？
7. IN THIS ARTICLE: The Roman Catholic Church has a complicated system for elevating its most revered members to sainthood after death.
   本文简介：罗马天主教对于将其最受尊敬的成员在死后擢升为圣徒有一套复杂的制度。
8. One of the most revered spiritual men of the20th century has taken his first big step on the road to sainthood.
   20世纪精神上最受崇敬的人之一已经朝着通往圣徒的道路迈出了第一大步。
9. Yesterday idolized, today hated and spit upon, tomorrow forgotten, and the day after tomorrow promoted to Sainthood.
   昨日被视为偶像的，今日会被唾弃；明天会被遗忘的，而后天又被奉为圣贤。
10. Pope Benedict proclaimed his Polish predecessor who died six years ago a'blessed of the Roman Catholic Church ', the last step before sainthood.
    教皇本笃赞扬六年前去世的他的波兰前任为“罗马天主教堂的真福”，这是成为圣徒之前的最后一步。
11. The Pope has taken the first step in conferring sainthood on the cardinal.
    教皇迈出了第一步，把圣徒的称号授予红衣主教。
12. Vatican speeds up sainthood scrutiny of Mother Teresa
    教廷积极展开德雷莎修女列圣审核
13. Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
    许多人真诚地不希望做圣人，而那些达到了或者希望达到圣人境界的人，可能从来没有感到做普通人的诱惑有多大。
14. In many places, children who die or people who suffer unpleasant deaths can be granted a kind of sainthood and asked to intervene on behalf of the living.
    在许多地方，小孩早夭或成人横死均可被赋予圣徒之称，并可被请来调解活人的纠纷。
15. He who gains the highest fruit of sainthood may be said to have seen nirvana face to face.
    他已经获得了圣徒的最高果位也许会说已经从面对面看到涅磐了。
16. Church of St John Coltrane exists in San Francisco: the founders first claimed that the musician was an incarnation of god, but later demoted him to sainthood.
    在旧金山有一座圣约翰？柯川教堂：教堂奠基人首先声称音乐家是上帝的化身，但随后又把他降级为圣人。
17. Prior to sainthood, Thomas More read Roman poets and playwrights.
    托马斯·莫尔在慷慨就义之前，畅读罗马诗歌和戏剧。
18. Today, there are no such official safeguards and some doubtful candidates have been put forward for sainthood.
    现在，已经没有这样的严格把关了，而一些值得怀疑的候选入也被推荐为圣徒。
19. If you had to nominate one person you have known for sainthood, who would you choose?
    假如你可以提名你自己认识的人为圣人，你会选择谁？
20. Beatification, which is bestowed only on the dead, is the penultimate step before sainthood.
    受宣福，只能适用于死了的人，是封圣前的步骤。
21. Lula has not quite achieved the global renown and secular sainthood of Nelson Mandela.
    卢拉没有赢得纳尔逊曼德拉（nelsonmandela）那样高的国际声望和尘世圣徒般的地位。
22. Chen Baisha, a great Confucian scholar, was the only one person of Guangdong to be elevated to sainthood and thus be honored in the Confucian Temple.
    大儒陈白沙是从祀孔庙的岭南第一人和唯一人，陈白沙从祀孔庙的成功为其“真儒”形象的确立奠定了基础。
23. Though Pauline follows rigidly all steps of the conversion process, and there are miracles about her that are required of a saint, she is ironically unqualified for sainthood.
    虽然波琳严格遵循宗教改宗转变过程的所有步骤，而且还有圣徒应有的奇迹，但颇具讽刺意味的是，她最终未能成为圣徒。

noun

1. the status and dignity of a saint

2. saints collectively