Paint

(noun.) a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating; 'artists use `paint' and `pigment' interchangeably'.

(verb.) apply paint to; coat with paint; 'We painted the rooms yellow'.

(verb.) apply a liquid to; e.g., paint the gutters with linseed oil.

(verb.) make a painting of; 'He painted his mistress many times'.

(verb.) make a painting; 'he painted all day in the garden'; 'He painted a painting of the garden'.

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• He had invented, he informed us, a new mixture to moisten paint with, which he described as a vehicle. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• After leaving Miss Rachel's room, I stopped a moment on one of the landings, by myself, to see if I had got the paint-stain by any chance on MY gown. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• And then followed the most extraordinary event of the day--to ME--since I had found the paint on your nightgown. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Thanks to you, we know when the paint was dry. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• All the signs visible--signs which told that the paint had been smeared by some loose article of somebody's dress touching it in going by. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• On the other hand the Corporation of New York commissioned him to paint the portrait of Lafayette, who was then visiting America. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• What pencil dare to paint? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I feel how vivid an impression I must have produced to have been painted in such strong, such rich, such massive colours as these. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• There were painted white chairs, with gilding and wreaths on them, and some lingering red silk damask with slits in it. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He lived at the house of Benjamin West, and painted, and his portraits were shown at the Royal Academy and at the Society of Artists. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• At seven he painted the Battle of Waterloo with tiger-lily pollen and black-currant juice, in the absence of water-colours. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The names of the occupants were painted at the bottom on the wall, but there was no such name as the Franco-Midland Hardware Company, Limited. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• They buried their dead, often with ornaments, weapons, and food; they used a lot of colour in the burial, and evidently painted the body. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Martha painted flowers exquisitely and furnished half the charity bazaars in the county. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The paints are deleterious, child. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• And Miss Annie paints a little---- Oh, I know--apple-blossoms on blotting-paper; just the kind of thing I shall be doing myself before long! 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• When nature paints she does so with the brush of beauty, dipped in the pigment of truth. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• How she sings,--how she paints, thought he. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Well, it is a rather bare lodging up a rather dark common staircase, and it is nearly all a large dull room, where Mr Gowan paints. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Joy paints with its own colours every act and thought. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Painting, chopping wood, hammering, plowing, washing, scrubbing, sewing, are all forms of work. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Let us assume that we have a painting or a drawing in colors from which it is desired to produce a set of printing plates to produce that drawing in facsimile. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• In this room, too, there was a cabinet piano, quite new and of superior tone; also an easel for painting and a pair of globes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• He deliberately scrutinised each sketch and painting. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• But who would have imagined, said he, that Franklin was capable of such a performance; such painting, such force, such fire! 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Would it comfort, or would it wound you to have a similar painting? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• But if you have a genius for painting, would it not be right to take that as a guide? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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