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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seems to me one only has to look, and paint what one sees.'
-- I should paint one little child left with Him.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He mistake a Mohican in his paint for a Huron!You would be as likely to mistake the white-coated grenadiers of Montcalm for the scarlet jackets of the Royal Americans,' returned the scout.
-- It was impos-sible to discover the expression of his features through the grotesque mask of paint under which they were concealed, though Duncan fancied it was rather melancholy than sav-age.
-- He waved his hand, in sign of his dislike to all remonstrance, and then, in more tempered language, he continued: 'You have the means of disguise; change me; paint me, too, if you will; in short, alter me to anything a fool.'
-- 'Do the cunning men of the Canadas paint their skins?'
-- My brothers have given me paint and I wear it.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of their elders some, by imitating the antics of youth, strive to persuade themselves that their day is not yet over; they shout with the lustiest, but the war cry sounds hollow in their mouth; they are like poor wantons attempting with pencil, paint and powder, with shrill gaiety, to recover the illusion of their spring.
-- I began to paint a bit a year ago.
-- "Why do you mind if you paint well or badly?"
-- I only want to paint what I see."
-- He'd told her he was looking out for someone to paint him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length these streets becoming more straggling yet, dwindled and dwindled away, until there were only small garden patches bordering the road, with many a summer house innocent of paint and built of old timber or some fragments of a boat, green as the tough cabbage-stalks that grew about it, and grottoed at the seams with toad-stools and tight-sticking snails.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such wretchedness Nekhludoff saw in a number of shoemakers that he saw working near the window of a basement; in the lean, pale, disheveled washerwomen ironing with bare hands before open windows from which soap-laden steam poured out; in two painters, aproned and bare-footed, who were covered with paint from temple to heel.
-- In their sunburnt, sinewy, weak hands, bared above the elbows, they carried a bucket of paint and incessantly cursed each other.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You can't buy those soft shades, so we paint ours any color we like.
-- Read him well, and he will help you much, for the study of character in this book will help you to read it in the world and paint it with your pen.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He desires to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco.
-- Where's that girl? there, Betty, go to Snarles the Painter, and tell him to paint me a sign, with "no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor;" might as well kill both birds at once.
-- I shall ere long paint to you as well as one can without canvas, something like the true form of the whale as he actually appears to the eye of the whaleman when in his own absolute body the whale is moored alongside the whale-ship so that he can be fairly stepped upon there.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They all paint tables, cover screens, and net purses.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But then again, the dread of having been too civil, too encouraging herself, probably came over her, for she presently added,"Do you not think they are something in Miss Morton's style of painting, Ma'am? She DOES paint most delightfully! How beautifully her last landscape is done!"
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He dressed Jim up in King Lear's outfit it was a long curtain-calico gown, and a white horse-hair wig and whiskers; and then he took his theater paint and paint-ed Jim's face and hands and ears and neck all over a dead, dull, solid blue, like a man that's been drownded nine days.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One pulled his hat off, another tugged at his coat, a third tried to paint a mustache under his nose.
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