painting是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 上油漆， 着色； 绘画； 油画； 画法，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：
-- Over the easy chair there hung in a gold frame an oval portrait of Anna, a fine painting by a celebrated artist.
-- He had a ready appreciation of art, and probably, with a taste for imitating art, he supposed himself to have the real thing essential for an artist, and after hesitating for some time which style of painting to select--religious, historical, realistic, or genre painting--he set to work to paint.
-- Since he knew nothing of this, and drew his inspiration, not directly from life, but indirectly from life embodied in art, his inspiration came very quickly and easily, and as quickly and easily came his success in painting something very similar to the sort of painting he was trying to imitate.
-- But I believe he doesn't care about painting any more portraits, and so very likely he is in want.
-- The handsome nurse, from whom Vronsky was painting a head for his picture, was the one hidden grief in Anna's life.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The front room of Barney's was an impressionistic painting in which a pool-table, piles of cigarettes, chocolate bars, playing cards, and pink sporting papers were jumbled in chaos.
-- I went out this afternoon, I went out and had a facial massage, so as to look nice for you, and then I knew you like conversation, so I got my little book about modern painting that I bought and I studied it terribly hard, but tonight I just couldn't seem to get the conversation around to modern painting--" He was sobbing, with her head on his shoulder, "Oh, you poor, scared, bullied kid, trying to be grown-up with these dollar- chasers!"
-- For hours Sondelius talked, of Shanghai and epistemology and the painting of Nevinson; for hours he sang scurrilous lyrics of the Quarter, and boomed, "Yey, how I kill the rats at Kellett's wharf today!I don't t'ink one little swizzle would break down too many glomeruli in an honest man's kidneys."
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：
-- And though Nikolay is not a drunkard, he drinks, and I knew he had a job in that house, painting work with Dmi-tri, who comes from the same village, too.
-- Well, so they squeezed and squeezed him and he confessed: 'I did not find it in the street, but in the flat where I was painting with Dmitri.'
-- They were painting there, didn't you notice them?
-- But if you had done that could you have said you had seen them painting the flat 芒聙娄 and the workmen?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was atable, and a Dutch clock, and a chest of drawers, and on the chestof drawers there was a teatray with a painting on it of a lady with aparasol, taking a walk with a militarylooking child who wastrundling a hoop.
-- Inever saw, in any painting or reality, horror and compassion soimpressively blended.
-- 'That was on the day when you were painting theflowers I had given you, Dora, and when I told you how much inlove I was.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was too early yet to go to Miss Havisham's, so I loitered into the country on Miss Havisham's side of town,--which was not Joe's side; I could go there to-morrow,--thinking about my patroness, and painting brilliant pictures of her plans for me.
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'll only be painting his own feelings for me, and I don't mind if he does that.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his expressed opinions of all performances in the Art of painting that were completely destitute of merit, Gowan was the most liberal fellow on earth.
-- 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.
-- On account of Mr Gowan's painting Papa's picture (which I am not quite convinced I should have known from the likeness if I had not seen him doing it), I have had more opportunities of being with her since then than I might have had without this fortunate chance.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From fire to oil was a natural transition for burned fin-gers, and Amy fell to painting with undiminished ardor.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moving on, I at last came to a dim sort of light not far from the docks, and heard a forlorn creaking in the air; and looking up, saw a swinging sign over the door with a white painting upon it, faintly representing a tall straight jet of misty spray, and these words underneath "The Spouter Inn: Peter Coffin."
-- Yet was there a sort of indefinite, half-attained, unimaginable sublimity about it that fairly froze you to it, till you involuntarily took an oath with yourself to find out what that marvellous painting meant.
-- Between the marble cenotaphs on either hand of the pulpit, the wall which formed its back was adorned with a large painting representing a gallant ship beating against a terrible storm off a lee coast of black rocks and snowy breakers.
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