核心畫面

Think of paint being spread across a surface — and what that leaves behind. Sometimes it's a finished picture hung on a wall, sometimes it's the act and skill of making that picture, and sometimes it's a fresh coat of colour laid over a whole room.

可以想成:把顏料一層層刷到一個平面上,然後留下來的東西。有時候留下的是牆上那幅畫好的圖,有時候指的是動手去畫這件事、更多收起可以想成:把顏料一層層刷到一個平面上,然後留下來的東西。有時候留下的是牆上那幅畫好的圖,有時候指的是動手去畫這件事、這門手藝,有時候則是把整個房間刷上新顏色的工程。

From the picture

粉刷房子

同樣是把顏料刷上平面,只是這裡的平面是牆、房間、整棟房子,目的不是作畫而是上色、保護。

house painting · noun · A2

The job of covering a wall, room, or house with paint.

油漆 / 粉刷

Also in this word

a painted picture · noun · A2

A picture that someone has made using paint, usually put on a wall for people to see.

畫作 / 畫

painting (activity) · noun · A2

Using paint to make pictures, as an activity and as a skill you build.

繪畫 / 畫畫

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

paintingnoun/ˈpeɪn.tɪŋ/

  • 1

    An illustration or artwork done with the use of paint.

    • The Mona Lisa is one of the most famous paintings.
    • "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…]."
  • 2

    The action of applying paint to a surface.

    • The outside of the old house would benefit from some painting.
  • 3

    The same activity as an art form.

    • Some artists, like Michelangelo, excel in both painting and sculpture.
    • The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。