核心词议：
adj. 宗教的
religious 基本解释
adj. 虔诚的；笃信宗教的；宗教的；谨慎的
n. 修士，修女，出家人
n. 修士，修女，出家人
速记方法
速记技巧 词源记忆法 同religion。拉丁语动词religare，由前缀re-(回)和ligare(捆，约束)复合而成，原始意义是“义务、契约”，后演变为“人类和神之间的联系”，经由古法语religion传入英语成为现在的意义。词根词缀：re-回，向后+-lig-捆，约束+-ion 词源词缀法 re-回，向后+-lig-捆，约束+-i-+-ous形容词词尾来自religion，宗教，教派，-ous，形容词后缀。
知识扩展
重要短语
religious belief宗教信仰
religious culture宗教文化
religious education宗教教育
religious festival宗教节日 同根词汇 religion n.宗教；宗教信仰
religious 变化形式
复数： religious
中文词源： religious 宗教的，虔诚的 来自 religion,宗教，教派，-ous,形容词后缀。 religious
精选例句
1、 Parents ought to be able to opt out only for limited medical or religious reasons.
父母应该只能因为有限的医疗或宗教原因而选择退出。[机器翻译，如有错误，感谢纠错]
2、 These would be people with a strong moral code or religious ideals.
这些人有强烈的道德准则或宗教理想。
1、 Men, like women, report crying at the death of a loved one and in response to a moving religious experience.
和女人一样，男人也会在爱人去世时哭泣，或是对感人的宗教经历做出反应。
1、 at a time when political and religious nonsense so jeopardize the rule of reason in this allegedly enlightened democracy and around the world.
在这样一个时代，政治和宗教的胡言乱语如此危及这个所谓开明的民主国家和全世界的理性统治。
1、 Offering up such a theory during a time of high tension between scientific and religious minds was branded as heresy and any such heretics that continued to spread these lies were to be punished by imprisonment or even death.
在科学和宗教思想高度紧张的时期，提出这样的理论被视为异端邪说，任何继续传播这些谎言的异端邪说都将受到监禁甚至死刑的惩罚。
常见考点例句：
- Are religious societies better than secular ones ?
- 宗教社会比世俗社会更好吗？
- It cuts across ethnic , tribal and religious lines .
- 这直接越过了种族、部落与宗教的界线。
- Her father was a doctor and her family was very religious .
- 玛莎的父亲是个医生，她的家庭非常虔诚。
- Anti-regime protests do not spring from religious differences .
- 反政府的抗议活动没有跳脱出宗教上的差异。
- If mom and dad are both devoutly religious , then their 8-year-old daughter is likely to appear devout .
- 如果父母双方都是虔诚的教徒，那么他们8岁的女儿很可能也很虔诚。
