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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But to renounce that unendurable worldly yoke which men believe to be liberty is not perhaps so painful as you think."
-- The luminous ceiling was gone, and so rapidly that my eyes received a painful impression.
-- A painful suspicion seized me.
-- The idea of failure in our bold enterprise was the least painful of my anxieties; but the thought of seeing our project discovered before leaving the Nautilus, of being brought before Captain Nemo, irritated, or (what was worse) saddened, at my desertion, made my heart beat.
-- My sleep was painful that night; hope and fear besieged me by turns: I rose several times.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A queer painful light came into Birkin's eyes.
-- So that Winifred, with a child's subtle instinct for avoiding the painful things, behaved as if nothing serious was the matter.
-- There was a pause, painful to Ursula and to Birkin.
-- His voice rang with a painful elation.
-- To add to his difficulty, a small bright moon shone brilliantly just ahead, on the right, a painful brilliant thing that was always there, unremitting, from which there was no escape.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Look at these figures, the result of long calculation, and painful and hard experience.
-- With the tears streaming down her face, and her slight figure trembling with the agitation of the scene she had left, the shock she had received, the errand she had just discharged, and a thousand painful and affectionate feelings, the child hastened to the door, and disappeared as rapidly as she had come.
-- Neither did he confine himself to looks and gestures, for when she and her grandfather were walking on beside the aforesaid Short, and that little man was talking with his accustomed cheerfulness on a variety of indifferent subjects, Thomas Codlin testified his jealousy and distrust by following close at her heels, and occasionally admonishing her ankles with the legs of the theatre in a very abrupt and painful manner.
-- Mrs Quilp was as innocent as her own mother of any emotion, painful or pleasant, which the sight of him awakened, but as her husband's glance made her timid and confused, and uncertain what to do or what was required of her, Mr Quilp did not fail to assign her embarrassment to the cause he had in his mind, and while he chuckled at his penetration was secretly exasperated by his jealousy.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She also enjoyed the comparatively pure spring air, but the walking on the cobblestones was painful to her feet, unused as they were to walking, and shod in clumsy prison shoes.
-- From this day on Maslova began to lead a life to which hundreds of thousands of women are driven, and which, in nine cases out of ten, ends in painful disease, premature decrepitude and death.
-- "No, I will consider it later," he said to himself, "and now I must have some diversion from these painful impressions."
-- It was painful to him to grieve her, but he knew that the slightest weakness would ruin him, i. e., bind him.
-- It must be very painful to people with a heart," she said in French.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The twinkling succession of darkness and light was excessively painful to the eye.
-- I stood up and found my foot with the loose heel swollen at the ankle and painful under the heel; so I sat down again, took off my shoes, and flung them away.
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