painful是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 疼痛的， 使痛苦的， 费力[心，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, Mr. Stryver, I was about to say: it might be painful to you to find yourself mistaken, it might be painful to Doctor Manette to have the task of being explicit with you, it might be very painful to Miss Ma-nette to have the task of being explicit with you.
-- 'It is a painful reflection to me,' said Charles Darnay, quite astounded, 'that I should have done him any wrong.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- exclaimed he, overcome by most painful and passionate remembrances.
-- Thus passed the first miles; and then the Raven bade her farewell, and this was the most painful separation of all.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he kept repeating in despair, as he remembered the acutely painful sensations caused him by this quarrel.
-- But three months had passed and he had not left off minding about it; and it was as painful for him to think of it as it had been those first days.
-- And I tell you--I did make an offer and was rejected, and Katerina Alexandrovna is nothing now to me but a painful and humiliating reminiscence."
-- All that was painful in his relations with Anna, all the feeling of indefiniteness left by their conversation, had slipped out of his mind.
-- I'll tell you simply," said Varenka, and, without waiting for a reply, she went on: "Yes, it brings up memories, once painful ones.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a noisy and rather painful performance, which included smelling asafetida.
-- The astounded world, the astounded and profane Clif Clawson, had the spectacle of Martin in shiny pressed clothes, a painful linen collar, and an arduously tied scarf, accompanying Mrs. Fox and the chastely chattering Madeline to the Mohalis Methodist Church, to hear the Reverend Dr. Myron Schwab discourse on "The One Way to Righteousness."
-- Now and then it was a relief to have the surly intentness of Wickett instead of the elegance of Rippleton Holabird, which demanded from Martin so much painful elegance in turn, at a time when he was sunk beyond sounding in his experimentation.
-- He was too conscious of the ordeal of a professional social life, and he could never understand that esoteric phenomenon, the dinner-party--the painful entertainment of people whom one neither likes nor finds interesting.
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：
-- But I don't want to go into all those painful details, so as not to worry you for nothing when it is now all over.
-- he repeated, standing in the middle of the room, and with painful con-centration he fell to gazing about him again, at the floor and everywhere, trying to make sure he had not forgotten any-thing.
-- He drew deep, slow, painful breaths; blood oozed at the corners of his mouth and drops of perspiration came out on his forehead.
-- Both of them had heard of the quarrel from Nastasya, so far as she had succeeded in understanding and reporting it, and were in painful perplexity and suspense.
-- He only wanted a sling on his arm or a bandage on his finger to complete the impression of a man with a painful abscess or a broken arm.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Micawber's feelings would never allow him todispose of them; and Clickett'- this was the girl from theworkhouse- 'being of a vulgar mind, would take painful liberties ifso much confidence was reposed in her.
-- 'It is truly painful to contemplatemankind in such an aspect, Master Copperfield, but our receptionwas, decidedly, cool.
-- I was deeply sorry tohave touched on such a painful theme, but that was useless now.
-- I could not help glancing at the scar with a painful interest whenwe went in to tea.
-- We arrived at Lincoln's Inn Fields without any new adventures,except encountering an unlucky donkey in a costermonger's cart,who suggested painful associations to my aunt.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have not forgotten it, I assure you. Deceived myself, I did very miserably deceive you and it will be a painful reflection to me for ever.
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