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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A little bag hung from his belt, containing colors for painting his face.
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：
-- But I will allow that the critic who has not a practical knowledge of technique is seldom able to say anything on the subject of real value, and my ignorance of painting is extreme.
-- Most men begin painting at eighteen."
-- I'm painting better than I've ever painted before."
-- He was painting a group of Italian peasants, in the costume of the Campagna, lounging on the steps of a Roman church.
-- I discovered that in Paris he had been painting just the same stale, obviously picturesque things that he had painted for years in Rome.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "In books, or work, or healthful play"is quite right as far as they are concerned; and the work means painting on velvet, fancy needle-work, or embroidery.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the work-room stood an easel with a half- finished painting turned face downward, and on the wall hung studies in drawing.
-- "I have given up painting entirely," he answered dryly.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It reminded me of a sepia painting I had once seen done from the ink of a fossil Belemnite that must have perished and become fossilised millions of years ago.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She carried also a yellow silk coat over her arm, so that she looked remarkable, like a painting from the Salon.
-- Rupert is quite right, human beings are boring, painting the universe with their own image.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'd not exchange, for a thousand lives, my condition here, for Edgar Linton's at Thrushcross Grange not if I might have the privilege of flinging Joseph off the highest gable, and painting the housefront with Hindley's blood!
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor does Hogarth, in painting the same scene in his own "Perseus Descending," make out one whit better.
-- The French are the lads for painting action.
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