《小王子英文版》精读笔记 Chapter 4-8

It is for that purpose, again, that I have bought a box of paints and some pencils. It is hard to take up drawing again at my age, when I have never made any pictures except those of the boa constrictor from the outside and the boa constrictor from the inside, since I was six. I shall certainly try to make my portraits as true to life as possible. But I am not at all sure of success. One drawing goes along all right, and another has no resemblance to its subject. I make some errors, too, in the little prince's height: in one place he is too tall and in another too short. And I feel some doubts about the color of his costume. So I fumble along as best I can, now good, now bad, and I hope generally fair to middling.

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◆It is +被强调部分+ that... 强调句结构

◆purpose /'pɜːpəs/ n. 目的; 意图

◆paints n. 绘画颜料

◆take up 开始从事

◆portrait /'pɔːtrɪt/ n. 肖像, 画像

◆as ... as possible 尽可能

◆true to life栩栩如生; 逼真

◆along /ə'lɒŋ/ adv. 进展;进行

◆resemblance /rɪ'zembl(ə)ns/ n. 相似之处

◆subject /'sʌbdʒekt/ n. 研究对象； (艺术的)表现对象；主题

◆error /'erə/ n. 错误

◆height /haɪt/ n. 高度, 身高

◆doubt /daʊt/ n. 怀疑;疑虑

◆fumble /'fʌmb(ə)l/ vt. 摸索；笨拙地做

◆generally /'dʒen(ə)rəlɪ/ adv. 通常地，大体上

◆fair to middling （习语）过得去，马马虎虎

fair /feə/ adj. (水平、质量)一般的，尚可的，不错的

middling /'mɪd(ə)lɪŋ/ n. 中级品adj. 中等的