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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She married an artist named Lyons, who came sketching on the moor.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'm sure the artist painted it from nature, and that I have seen the very place ' 'Quite likely, though I bought it here.
-- I have always been an artist in the depths of my soul, I as-sure you, Evgenie Pavlovitch.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The artist has this advantage over the rest of the world, that his friends offer not only their appearance and their character to his satire, but also their work.
-- Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
-- I suppose no artist achieves completely the realisation of the dream that obsesses him, and Strickland, harassed incessantly by his struggle with technique, managed, perhaps, less than others to express the vision that he saw with his mind's eye; but in Tahiti the circumstances were favourable to him; he found in his surroundings the accidents necessary for his inspiration to become effective, and his later pictures give at least a suggestion of what he sought.
-- The rogue, like the artist and perhaps the gentleman, belongs to no class.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One might have said that the water escaped by a monstrous gargoyle, shaped with all the imagination of an artist of the Renaissance.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it happened on Ascension Day that there was visiting his aunts a lady from the neighborhood with her two young daughters, her son and a local artist who was staying with them.
-- As he turned around he saw the artist catching up with Katiousha, but with her supple limbs she gained on him and ran to the left.
-- Desiring to call forth pleasant recollections about her, he looked at her portrait, painted by a famous artist for five thousand rubles.
-- The artist had evidently drawn with particular care the breast and the beautiful shoulders and neck.
-- The general was at the time sitting with a young artist in the darkened reception-room, at a table, the top of which was of inlaid work, both of them turning a saucer on a sheet of paper.
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：
-- Moving with her artist friends in different kinds of society, Gudrun had already come to know a good many people of repute and standing.
-- At Birkin's table was a girl with dark, soft, fluffy hair cut short in the artist fashion, hanging level and full almost like the Egyptian princess's.
-- "She might be a well-known artist one day?"
-- And every true artist is the salvation of every other."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The artist had given it a head that would have been, in an intellectual point of view, top-heavy for Shakespeare.
-- The artist traveller calmly came and took his place at table when the rest sat down, with no apparent sense upon him of his late skirmish with the completely dressed traveller.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These boots, an old foil, and a slashed doublet once used by an artist for some picture, were Jo's chief treasures and appeared on all occasions.
-- 'Tis whispered that she loves the young English artist who haunts her steps, and is spurned by the old Count,' said the lady, as they joined the dance.
-- But neither bent the knee, for the young bridegroom replied in a tone that startled all listeners as the mask fell, disclosing the noble face of Ferdinand Devereux, the artist lover, and leaning on the breast where now flashed the star of an English earl was the lovely Viola, radiant with joy and beauty.
-- Beth began by rummaging everything out of the big closet where her family resided, but getting tired before half done, she left her establishment topsy-tur-vy and went to her music, rejoicing that she had no dishes to wash. Amy arranged her bower, put on her best white frock, smoothed her curls, and sat down to draw under the honeysuckle, hoping someone would see and inquire who the young artist was.
-- 'I have ever so many wishes, but the pet one is to be an artist, and go to Rome, and do fine pictures, and be the best artist in the whole world,' was Amy's modest desire.
扩展阅读：