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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Adamas then sought shelter under cover of his men, but Meriones followed after and hit him with a spear midway between the private parts and the navel, where a wound is particualrly painful to wretched mortals.
-- These were for the painful art of wrestling.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My eyes are sometimes so weak and painful that I have to shut myself up in the dark for hours together.
-- CHAPTER XII THE INVISIBLE MAN LOSES HIS TEMPER It is unavoidable that at this point the narrative should break off again, for a certain very painful reason that will presently be apparent.
-- He recognised the voice as that of the Invisible Man, and the note was that of a man suddenly infuriated by a painful blow.
-- Painful humiliation vicar.
-- I took to the gutter, the roughness of which I found painful to my feet, and forthwith the shaft of a crawling hansom dug me forcibly under the shoulder blade, reminding me that I was already bruised severely.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were painful at first, but their constant resurgence at last altogether upset my balance.
-- I stretched my limbs, sore and painful from the pricks of the spiny plants, and stared around me at the trees; and, so sud-denly that it seemed to jump out of the green tracery about it, my eyes lit upon a black face watching me.
-- When his scars were quite healed, and he was no longer anything but painful and stiff, and able to converse a little, I took him yonder and introduced him to the Kanakas as an interest-ing stowaway.
-- I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world when I saw it suffering the painful disorder of this island.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Occasionally he would stop; and in the midst of a breathing stillness, that the dull but increasing roar of the waterfall only served to render more impressive, he would listen with painful intenseness, to catch any sounds that might arise from the slumbering forest.
-- A general movement among their conductors, however, soon recalled them from a contem-plation of the wild charms that night had assisted to lend the place to a painful sense of their real peril.
-- In a moment of such painful doubt, Duncan did not hesi-tate to look around him, without consulting that protection from the rocks which just before had been so necessary to his safety.
-- Mile after mile was, however, passed through the bound-less woods, in this painful manner, without any prospect of a termination to their journey.
-- continued Cora, after a most painful pause, while the conviction forced itself on her mind that the too sanguine and generous Duncan had been cruelly deceived by the cunning of the savage.
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 how strange it was that the creative instinct should seize upon this dull stockbroker, to his own ruin, perhaps, and to the misfortune of such as were dependent on him; and yet no stranger than the way in which the spirit of God has seized men, powerful and rich, pursuing them with stubborn vigilance till at last, conquered, they have abandoned the joy of the world and the love of women for the painful austerities of the cloister.
-- He gulped, and put his hand to his heart to ease its painful beating.
-- The demon which possessed him was exorcised at last, and with the completion of the work, for which all his life had been a painful preparation, rest descended on his remote and tortured soul.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Either the engineer had been able to save himself, and had already found a refuge on some point of the coast, or he was lost for ever!The long and painful hours passed by.
-- Neb's companions had watched his daring attempt with painful anxiety, and when he was out of sight, they fixed their attention on the land where their hope of safety lay, while eating some shell- fish with which the sand was strewn.
-- The ascent was painful enough.
-- According to the engineer's calculation, the mercurial column of a Fahrenheit thermometer would not have marked less than eight degrees below zero, and this intense cold, rendered still more painful by a sharp gale, lasted for several days.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet there was visible on the part of the child a painful anxiety for his reply, and consciousness of his power to render it disagreeable or distressing, which was strongly at variance with this impulse and restrained it more effectually than she could possibly have done by any efforts of her own.
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