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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That would be so very painful a conclusion of their present acquaintance!and yet, she could not help rather anticipating something decisive.
-- Considering the very superior claims of the object, it ought; and judging by its apparently stronger effect on Harriet's mind, producing reserve and self-command, it would. She must communicate the painful truth, however, and as soon as possible.
-- Their intercourse was painful enough by letter.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes," continued Joseph Poorgrass his shyness, which was so painful as a defect, filling him with a mild complacency now that it was regarded as an interesting study.
-- "Mr. Boldwood, it is painful to have to say I am surprised, so that I don't know how to answer you with propriety and respect but am only just able to speak out my feeling I mean my meaning; that I am afraid I can't marry you, much as I respect you.
-- Knowing he would reply truly she asked the question, painful as she must have known the subject would be.
-- "It would be untrue, and painful to both of us.
-- To be just, the men were not greatly to blame for this painful and demoralizing termination to the evening's entertainment.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Af-ter so much time spent in painful labour, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying con-summation of my toils.
-- Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled me, and I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime.
-- I remained two days at Lausanne, in this painful state of mind.
-- 100 FrankensteinChapter 9 othing is more painful to the human mind than, after Nthe feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.
-- Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All that passion meant to her was servitude to inexplicable male madness, unshared by females, a painful andembarrassing process that led inevitably to the still more painful process of childbirth.
-- Now it was painful to have to choke back words for fear of his amused grin.
-- A glare brighter than a dozen suns dazzled their eyes, scorching heat seared theirskins and the roaring, crackling and crashing beat upon their ears in painful waves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No one but themselves and Mrs. Coiler the toady neighbor showed any interest in this part of the conversation, and it appeared to me that it was painful to Herbert; but it promised to last a long time, when the page came in with the announcement of a domestic affliction.
-- As I walked on to the hotel, I felt that a dread, much exceeding the mere apprehension of a painful or disagreeable recognition, made me tremble.
-- Only the subject we were speaking of," said I, "was rather painful to me."
-- He nodded when I said the subject was painful to me, clapped me on the back, put round the wine again, and went on with his dinner.
-- His breathing became more difficult and painful as the night drew on, and often he could not repress a groan.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not with the brightness natural to cheerful youth, but with uncertain, eager, doubtful flashes, which had something painful in them, analogous to the changes on a blind face groping its way.
-- That unfortunate lady hereupon essaying to offer testimony, without any voice and with painful gestures expressive of an inflamed throat, became so aggravating and underwent so many facial contortions, that Mr. Bounderby, unable to bear it, seized her by the arm and shook her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Taking example by the guide, I gave way to a kind of painful somnolency, during which I seemed both to hear and feel continued heavings and shudderings in the mountain.
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