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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh!Miss Grant," said Lord Glenarvan, raising the young girl, "if I had known of your presence—"He said no more, and there was a painful silence in the courtyard, broken only by sobs.
-- The rarefaction of the atmosphere produced that painful oppression known by the name of PUNA.
-- He ventured far up in spite of his being alone, straining his ear with painful eagerness to catch the faintest sound, and calling aloud in an agony of despair.
-- His dispirited tone made a painful impression on the minds of his auditors.
-- He passed two long years of painful slavery among them, but always cherished in his heart the hope of one day regaining his freedom, and watching for the slightest opportunity that might turn up, though he knew that his flight would be attended with innumerable dangers.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But to tell the truth, sir, we were both very much attached to Sir Charles, and his death gave us a shock and made these surroundings very painful to us.
-- 'The recital of these events must be very painful to you, and perhaps it will make it easier if I tell you what occurred, and you can check me if I make any material mistake.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was clear from Colia's face how painful it was to him to deliver the missive.
-- Often, my friend, often!I only pretended I had not in order to avoid a painful subject.
-- An inexpressibly painful expression came over his face.
-- A painful recollection flashed into his mind.
-- Well, I consider that extremely impudent on your part!You ought to know that Burdovsky has no need of being excused or justified by you or anyone else!It is an insult!The affair is quite painful enough for him without that.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nay, the longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard; and sometimes, for a few painful minutes, she believed it to be no more than friendship.
-- To quit the neighbourhood of Norland was no longer an evil; it was an object of desire; it was a blessing, in comparison of the misery of continuing her daughter-in-law's guest; and to remove for ever from that beloved place would be less painful than to inhabit or visit it while such a woman was its mistress.
-- Depend upon it that whatever unemployed sum may remain, when I make up my accounts in the spring, I would even rather lay it uselessly by than dispose of it in a manner so painful to you.
-- "I love Willoughby, sincerely love him; and suspicion of his integrity cannot be more painful to yourself than to me.
-- It was several days before Willoughby's name was mentioned before Marianne by any of her family; Sir John and Mrs. Jennings, indeed, were not so nice; their witticisms added pain to many a painful hour; but one evening, Mrs. Dashwood, accidentally taking up a volume of Shakespeare, exclaimed,"We have never finished Hamlet, Marianne; our dear Willoughby went away before we could get through it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There she found other girls ahead of her, applicants like herself, but with more of that self-satisfied and independent air which experience of the city lends; girls who scrutinised her in a painful manner.
-- She met with painful rebuffs, the most trying of which had been in a manufacturing cloak house, where she had gone to the fourth floor to inquire.
-- For the nonce he forgot what a painful thing it would be to resume his old place, even if it were given him.
-- Taking a chair here was a painful thing to him.
-- she asked Hurstwood one morning as a climax to some painful thoughts of her own.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Specially, painful mu-sic; and you can't get no other kind out of a jews-harp.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Wherever they landed, they left their painful mark and the boys could only run away and howl.
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