单词详解

1. n.

A. [U] 油漆，涂料 (a liquid that is put on surfaces to give them a particular color)

The paint is starting to peel off. 油漆开始剥落了。

Don’t touch the door; the paint is wet. 别碰这门，油漆未干。

If workmen breathed in the fine paint spray, their lungs would be damaged.

如果工人吸入这种细微的喷漆, 他们的肺部就会受到损伤。

B. [U；C] 绘画颜料，一套颜料（tubes of paint used for painting pictures）

He bought me a box of paints. 他给我买了一盒颜料。

I left my paints at home. 我把颜料忘在家里了。

2. vt.

A. 油漆，涂以颜色（to cover a surface or object with paint）

The door was painted blue. 门漆成蓝色。

When will you paint the wall? 你们什么时候粉刷墙?

I painted the door a bright colour. 把门漆成鲜艳的颜色。

They have painted the table red.他们把桌子漆成红色。

B. 画，绘画(to make a picture or design using paints )

The boy is painting a tiger. 那男孩在画一只老虎。

The little girl paints nicely in water colors.小姑娘的水彩画画得很好。

He painted this picture. 他画了这幅画。

He is painting her a picture. 他正在为她作画。

She painted a beautiful portrait for us. 她为我们画了一幅漂亮的肖像。

The artist painted her strolling her garden. 美术家画了一张她在花园里漫步的画。

C. (用化妆品)涂，搽(to put colored make-up on one’s nails, lips etc.)

Taking out her lipstick, she began to paint her lips. 她拿出口红，开始往嘴唇上抹。

She painted herself thick and ugly. 她脸上粉搽得又厚又难看。

 

相关词组

1. paint sb. black 给某人抹黑；把某人描写成坏人

Writers painted Chen Shimei black. 作家们把陈世美描写成坏人。

2. paint the lily 画蛇添足

What he did was really painting the lily. 他的所作所为纯粹是画蛇添足。

 

相关单词

复数：paints

第三人称单数：paints

过去式：painted

过去分词：painted

现在分词：painting

近义词：draw

 

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词语辨析：paint, draw

 

paint, draw

paint: 指用颜色画，如油画颜料、水彩或者水墨画； paint的引伸含义是“描述”。

draw: 通常指用铅笔、钢笔或者粉笔画，后者一般并不涂上颜料。drawing除了“图画”

外，还有“工程图”的意思。

 

词语详解

1. paint指用颜色画，如油画颜料、水彩或者水墨画; paint的引伸含义是“描述”。

I am an art student and I paint a lot of pictures. 我是学美术的学生，我画许多画。

He is painting in oils. 他正在用油画颜料画画。

He is not so black as he is painted. 他并不像人们所说的那么坏。

2. draw: 通常指用铅笔、钢笔或者粉笔画，后者一般并不涂上颜料。drawing除了“图画”外，还有“工程图”的意思。

She draws very well. 她画得很好。

These pictures are drawn by children. 这些画是孩子们画的。