我来画一棵树，你给它涂上颜色。

I'll draw a tree and you can colour it in.

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地板上东西挪空，涂上了清漆。

The floors had been stripped and sealed with varnish.

《牛津词典》

她往脸上搽了粉，又涂上了口红。

She powdered her face and put on her lipstick.

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She's stuck to a -- this is remarkable: she's stuck to a "marble venomed seat smeared with gums of glutinous heat."

这个值得注意，她坚持坐在,涂满胶状树胶的邪恶石头凳子上“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The steward placed him with three young women dressed like parrot Their hands were resting on the table, red speared at the tips.

列车乘务员让他，和三个打扮得,像鹦鹉的年轻女人，坐在一起,她们的嘴唇涂得红红的，手放在桌子上。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The poet Wallace Stevens puts it beautifully when he says that poetry should make the visible a little hard to see; in other words it should be a defamiliarizing of that which has become too familiar.

诗人华莱士，史蒂文斯在解释这点时说得很漂亮,他说，诗应给能见之物涂上一点朦胧的色彩，换句话说,诗应将熟悉的事物陌生化。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选