paint是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 油漆， 颜料v. 油漆； 涂， 涂漆； 画； 描绘， 描述，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- More than any other style he liked the French--graceful and effective--and in that style he began to paint Anna's portrait in Italian costume, and the portrait seemed to him, and to everyone who saw it, extremely successful.
-- I maintain that..." "Couldn't we ask him to paint a portrait of Anna Arkadyevna?"
-- This he knew positively, and had known a long while, ever since he had begun to paint it.
-- He had noticed often that even in actual praise technique was opposed to essential quality, as though one could paint well something that was bad.
-- And the most experienced and adroit painter could not by mere mechanical facility paint anything if the lines of the subject were not revealed to him first.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, it seeks the drugs that allay pain!It produces the paint that slicks up your house, it dyes your sweetheart's dress-- and maybe, in these degenerate days, her cherry lips!Who the dickens has been talking scandal about my organic chemistry?"
-- "All credit to the men who invented paint and canvas, but there's more credit, eh?
-- While medical quacks, manufacturers of patent medicines, chewing- gum salesmen, and high priests of advertising lived in large houses, attended by servants, and took their sacred persons abroad in limousines, Max Gottlieb dwelt in a cramped cottage whose paint was peeling, and rode to his laboratory on an ancient and squeaky bicycle.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 128 Crime and PunishmentThe floor had only just been painted, in the middle of the room stood a pail and a broken pot with paint and brushes.
-- There, too, the heat was stifling and there was a sickening smell of fresh paint and stale oil from the newly decorated rooms.
-- 'No need to explain that!And it wasn't the paint only: the fever had been coming on for a month; Zossimov testi-fies to that!But how crushed that boy is now, you wouldn't believe!
-- It was one of Katerina Ivanovna's characteristics to paint everyone she met in the most glowing colours.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Paint at all?'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And she had on a black dress and blackbonnet and no paint and really looked decent but for that red hair.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One day he said to her: 'Listen, I have a good idea, there is our gossip the carpenter, he shall make us a wooden calf, and paint it brown, so that it looks like any other, and in time it will certainly get big and be a cow.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One corpulent slow boy, with a wheezy manner of breathing, ventured the answer, Because he wouldn't paper a room at all, but would paint it.
-- You don't find that foreign birds and butterflies come and perch upon your crockery; you cannot be permitted to paint foreign birds and butterflies upon your crockery.
-- I thant undreth him, nor yet wath hith paint off.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He would like me most of all to be a model for him to paint from.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two months had barely gone by in all, when Bleeding Heart Yard had become so familiar with short-commons again, that the treat was forgotten there; when nothing seemed new in the partnership but the paint of the inscription on the door-posts, DOYCE AND CLENNAM; when it appeared even to Clennam himself, that he had had the affairs of the firm in his mind for years.
-- I think I must engage Mr Gowan to paint my picture.
-- She surmised, she said, that Mr Gowan had lost better and higher opportunities by marrying his pretty wife; and Love in a cottage, painting pictures for dinner, was so delightfully interesting, that she begged her papa to give him the commission whether he could paint a likeness or not: though indeed both she and Amy knew he could, from having seen a speaking likeness on his easel that day, and having had the opportunity of comparing it with the original.
-- The guests said to themselves, whether they were conscious of it or no, 'Here is a man who really has an acquaintance with us as we are, who is admitted to some of us every day with our wigs and paint off, who hears the wanderings of our minds, and sees the undisguised expression of our faces, when both are past our control; we may as well make an approach to reality with him, for the man has got the better of us and is too strong for us.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's often so, and we like to watch it, for it is never the same, but always splendid,' replied Amy, wishing she could paint it.
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