He finished off the painting with a few deft strokes of the brush.

他用画笔熟练地勾上几笔，这幅画就完成了。

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By contrast, the same student used a brush to make a breath-taking landscape painting—so vivid that one could almost smell the refreshing rivers and hear the chirping birds.

与此形成对比的是，同一个学生用画笔画了一幅令人惊叹的风景画——如此逼真，几乎可以闻到沁人心脾的河水，听到鸟儿的啁啾。

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He took his brush and started painting.

他拿起画笔开始画画。

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Henri's disciples were known collectively as the Ashcan School, partly because of the lowlife subjects they painted, but also because of the gritty, expressive handling of paint, which you can see in the swift brush strokes of "Forty-two Kids, " and Bellows's famous painting of an illicit prizefight, "Stag at Sharkey's" (1909).

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It took about a month to make all three paintings, a process that was slowed by Mr. Boyle's request that Mr. Cobb shoot stop-motion photographs every few brush strokes, for a sequence toward the end of the film in which the painting gets "unpainted" so that the audience can appreciate all the layers involved in creating the work.

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