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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But," said I, "is it not very much to be feared that this ever-increasing pressure may not in the end turn out very painful and inconvenient?"
-- Besides, if the ascending path was more arduous and painful to clamber, I had one source of secret consolation and delight.
-- As yet, however, I felt no painful sensation.
-- It was painful in the extreme.
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：
-- The rest was a kind of painful dream.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- (The misguided young Barnacle evidently going blind on his eye-glass side, but ashamed to make any further alteration in his painful arrangements.)
-- 'I have acted on your advice; and having disembarrassed myself of an occupation that was painful to me for many reasons, wish to devote myself and what means I have, to another pursuit.'
-- He rather thinks she is disposed to like him, and he has painful doubts (I quite agree with him, as I dare say you do) of the hopefulness of such a marriage.'
-- 'It is always painful to me to hear you call it home.'
-- It made such a painful impression upon him to hear her talking in this haughty tone, and to see her patting her contemptuous lips with her fan, that he said very earnestly, 'Believe me, ma'am, this is unjust, a perfectly groundless suspicion.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- THE PUBLIC BEREAVEMENT It is our painful duty to record the sudden and mysteri-ous disappearance of our cherished friend, Mrs. Snowball Pat Paw.
-- And with these words, uttered in the tone she liked, Laurie left her, after a handshake almost painful in its heartiness.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A peculiar walk in this old man, a certain slight but painful appearing yawing in his gait, had at an early period of the voyage excited the curiosity of the mariners.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rose made no reply, but played a little quicker, as though the words had roused her from some painful thoughts.
-- she added, disengaging her hand, 'why should we prolong this painful interview?
-- Most painful to me, and yet productive of lasting happiness, notwithstanding; for it will be happiness to know that I once held the high place in your regard which I now occupy, and every triumph you achieve in life will animate me with new fortitude and firmness.
-- Mr. Bumble was meditating; it might be that the insects brought to mind, some painful passage in his own past life.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We are not on friendly terms, and it always gives me pain to meet him, but I have no reason for avoiding HIM but what I might proclaim before all the world, a sense of very great ill-usage, and most painful regrets at his being what he is.
-- Elizabeth's eyes were fixed on her with most painful sensations, and she watched her prog-ress through the several stanzas with an impatience which was very ill rewarded at their close; for Mary, on receiving, amongst the thanks of the table, the hint of a hope that she might be prevailed on to favour them again, after the pause of half a minute began another.
-- As for Jane, HER anxiety under this suspense was, of course, more painful than Elizabeth's, but whatever she felt she was desirous of concealing, and between herself and Elizabeth, therefore, the subject was never alluded to.
-- But I will endeavour to banish every painful thought, and think only of what will make me happy your affection, and the invariable kindness of my dear uncle and aunt.
-- But when this subject was succeeded by his account of Mr. Wickham when she read with somewhat clearer at-tention a relation of events which, if true, must overthrow every cherished opinion of his worth, and which bore so alarming an affinity to his own history of himself her feelings were yet more acutely painful and more difficult of definition.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He looked up in my face with all the tokens of gratitude and thankful-ness that could appear in any countenance; but was so weak, notwithstanding he had so exerted himself in the fight, that he could not stand up upon his feet - he tried to do it two or three times, but was really not able, his ankles were so swelled and so painful to him; so I bade him sit still, and caused Friday to rub his ankles, and bathe them with rum, as he had done his father's.
-- When we came to Pampeluna itself, we found it so in-deed; and to me, that had been always used to a hot climate, and to countries where I could scarce bear any clothes on, the cold was insufferable; nor, indeed, was it more painful than surprising to come but ten days before out of Old Cas-tile, where the weather was not only warm but very hot, and immediately to feel a wind from the Pyrenean Mountains so very keen, so severely cold, as to be intolerable and to endanger benumbing and perishing of our fingers and toes.
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