artist是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 艺术家， 美术家； (某方面的) 能手，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- the artist whispered hoarsely once more, still more angrily, obviously exasperated that his voice failed him so that he could not give his words the expression he would have liked to.
-- Chapter 9 The old neglected palazzo, with its lofty carved ceilings and frescoes on the walls, with its floors of mosaic, with its heavy yellow stuff curtains on the windows, with its vases on pedestals, and its open fireplaces, its carved doors and gloomy reception rooms, hung with pictures--this palazzo did much, by its very appearance after they had moved into it, to confirm in Vronsky the agreeable illusion that he was not so much a Russian country gentleman, a retired army officer, as an enlightened amateur and patron of the arts, himself a modest artist who had renounced the world, his connections, and his ambition for the sake of the woman he loved.
-- The article reproached the government and the academy for letting so remarkable an artist be left without encouragement and support.
-- asked Vronsky, thinking that, as a Russian Maecenas, it was his duty to assist the artist regardless of whether the picture were good or bad.
-- But as the artist lived in a remote suburb, it was decided to take the carriage.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He concentrated on Leora, but his talk was of Martin: "Your husband must be an Artist Healer, not a picker of trifles like these laboratory men."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At times monstrous images are created, but the setting and the whole picture are so truthlike and filled with details so delicate, so unexpectedly, but so artistically consistent, that the dreamer, were he an artist like Push-kin or Turgenev even, could never have invented them in the waking state.
-- I learnt that an artist here took a fancy to him, and used to go and see him, and now this business came upon him.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was not much deceived as to her own skill either as an artist or a musician, but she was not unwilling to have others deceived, or sorry to know her rep-utation for accomplishment often higher than it deserved.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Maison Vauquer had caught the infection from a young artist among the boarders.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But my enthusiasm was checked by my anxiety, and I appeared rather like one doomed by slavery to toil in the mines, or any other un-wholesome trade than an artist occupied by his favourite employment.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I fixed in the stumps so artificially, scraping and sloping them with my knife toward the points, that I made a very tolerable comb; which was a seasonable sup-ply, my own being so much broken in the teeth, that it was almost useless: neither did I know any artist in that country so nice and exact, as would undertake to make me another.
-- This artist is much encouraged and esteemed by the whole fraternity.
-- I went into another room, where the walls and ceiling were all hung round with cobwebs, except a narrow passage for the artist to go in and out.
-- The artist himself was at that time busy upon two great designs; the first, to sow land with chaff, wherein he affirmed the true seminal virtue to be contained, as he demonstrated by several ex-periments, which I was not skilful enough to comprehend.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I say a nice house, I mean a handsome house--old, tottering, and not exactly comfortable to English notions: a house a little off the perpendicular and inclined to fall into the neighboring canal; exactly the house for a wandering artist to depict; all the more that you could scarcely see it for ivy and a magnificent old tree which grew over the door.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- NOW life came into him!He had been gradually dying, with Connie, in the iso-lated private life of the artist and the conscious being.
-- Duncan Forbes, an artist friend of theirs, had arrived at the Villa Esmeralda, coming north from Rome.
-- The old artist always did him-self well: he took berths on the Orient Express, in spite of Connie's dislike of TRAINS DE LUXE, the atmosphere of vulgar depravity there is aboard them nowadays.
-- The knighted artist became more angry.
-- The artist tried to put the utmost contempt of the other person into his speech.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The last house in Bleeding Heart Yard which she had described as his place of habitation, was a large house, let off to various tenants; but Plornish ingeniously hinted that he lived in the parlour, by means of a painted hand under his name, the forefinger of which hand (on which the artist had depicted a ring and a most elaborate nail of the genteelest form) referred all inquirers to that apartment.
-- 'Ye-es,' replied the surgeon, with the thoughtful pleasure of an artist contemplating the work upon his easel.
-- He appeared to be an artist by profession, and to have been at Rome some time; yet he had a slight, careless, amateur way with him a perceptible limp, both in his devotion to art and his attainments which Clennam could scarcely understand.
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