Paint
[peɪnt] or [pent]
解釋/意思:
(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'.
卡里校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc.
(v. t.) Fig.: To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors.
(v. t.) To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape.
(v. t.) Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict.
(v. t.) To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well.
(v. t.) To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
(n.) A pigment or coloring substance.
(n.) The same prepared with a vehicle, as oil, water with gum, or the like, for application to a surface.
(n.) A cosmetic; rouge.
伯纳黛特校對
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Represent (by colors).[2]. Color (with a pigment), coat with paint.[3]. Depict, delineate, describe, sketch, portray, pencil, set forth.
n. Pigment, coloring matter.
哈伦校對
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Color, tinge, tint, portray, represent, delineate, depict, sketch, describe
ANT:Daub, caricature, misportray, misrepresent, misdelineate, misdepict
整理:特蕾西
解釋/意思:
v.t. to cover over with colour: to represent in a coloured picture: to describe in words: to adorn.—v.i. to practise painting: to lay colours on the face to blush: (slang) to tipple.—n. a colouring substance: anything fixed with caoutchouc to harden it.—adj. Paint′able that may be painted.—ns. Paint′-box a box in which different paints are kept in compartments; Paint′-bridge a platform used by theatrical scene-painters in painting scenery; Paint′-brush a brush for putting on paint.—adj. Paint′ed covered with paint: ornamented with coloured figures: marked with bright colours.—ns. Paint′ed-grass ribbon-grass; Paint′ed-lā′dy the thistle-butterfly orange-red spotted with white and black; Paint′er one whose employment is to paint: one skilled in painting; Paint′er's-col′ic lead colic; Paint′er-stain′er one who paints coats of arms &c.; Paint′iness; Paint′ing the act or employment of laying on colours: the act of representing objects by colours: a picture: vivid description in words; Paint′ūre (Dryden) the art of painting: a picture.—adj. Paint′y overloaded with paint with the colours too glaringly used: smeared with paint.—Paint the town red (U.S.) to break out in a boisterous spree.
阿纳托尔校對
例句/造句/用法:
- He had invented, he informed us, a new mixture to moisten paint with, which he described as a vehicle. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- 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. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- And then followed the most extraordinary event of the day--to ME--since I had found the paint on your nightgown. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Thanks to you, we know when the paint was dry. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- 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. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- On the other hand the Corporation of New York commissioned him to paint the portrait of Lafayette, who was then visiting America. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- What pencil dare to paint? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I feel how vivid an impression I must have produced to have been painted in such strong, such rich, such massive colours as these. 威爾基·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. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- 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. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- At seven he painted the Battle of Waterloo with tiger-lily pollen and black-currant juice, in the absence of water-colours. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- 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. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Martha painted flowers exquisitely and furnished half the charity bazaars in the county. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The paints are deleterious, child. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- 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! 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- When nature paints she does so with the brush of beauty, dipped in the pigment of truth. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- How she sings,--how she paints, thought he. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Joy paints with its own colours every act and thought. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Painting, chopping wood, hammering, plowing, washing, scrubbing, sewing, are all forms of work. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- 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. 神奇的知識之書.
- 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. 簡·愛.
- He deliberately scrutinised each sketch and painting. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- But who would have imagined, said he, that Franklin was capable of such a performance; such painting, such force, such fire! 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Would it comfort, or would it wound you to have a similar painting? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- But if you have a genius for painting, would it not be right to take that as a guide? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
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