有一天，这位上尉叫那个新兵去油漆他的住处，油漆完毕以后，又叫新兵把刷子洗干净，可是新兵找不到抹布可以擦洗刷子。
One day, the captain told the soldier to paint his residence. After painting it, he told the soldier to wash the brush. However, the soldier could not find a cleaning rag to wipe the brush.
如果人们碰到一个标有‘油漆未干’的牌子，多半会用手去试一下它是不是湿的。
If people run into a sign near a park bench saying that the paint is wet, every one will touch it to check.
他父亲是个破了产的书商，他十八岁就工作了，当房屋油漆工，然后打仗时，去法国和印度服役三年，之后又在那里待了几年。
The son of a bankrupt bookseller, he had gone to work as a house-painter at eighteen, and then served three years in France and India during the war.
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