One day, a rich man asked him to paint a portrait for him and promised to pay him 10,000 dollars.

一天，一个富人请他为他画一幅肖像画，并答应付给他一万美元。

Cecilia Beaux was born in 1854, and after learning to paint and studying with several important artists of the time, Beaux became known as one of the best portrait painters in the United States.

塞西莉亚·博克斯出生于1854年，在学习绘画并师从当时几位重要的艺术家后，博克斯成为美国最佳肖像画家之一。

They said the paint used was also characteristic of that period, as was the intricate and costly style of the lace ruff worn by the man in the portrait.

他们说，像肖像画里男人所穿戴的复杂而又昂贵的蕾丝飞边那样，所用的颜料也具有那个时期的特征。

But they paint a portrait of a middle-aged tech giant in the early stages of a successful turnaround amid a skittish global economy.

它们描绘的是，一个已经步入中年的科技巨人面临反复无常的全球经济，终于迈出了成功转型的第一步。

Eight hundred miles south of the North Pole, stalactite-like stratus clouds-churned by 90-mile-an-hour winds-and the light of a bruised dawn paint an apocalyptic portrait over Inglefield Bay.

北极以南800英里，钟乳石—像层云—被每小时90英里的大风搅动着，瘀紫色的黎明阳光描绘了英格尔场海湾上的天启肖像。

Use a pencil instead of paint and draw a portrait.

用铅笔而不是颜料画一幅人物肖像。 （小时候经常在课堂上偷偷画美女 --- 不知道男生都画什么？

In "Grown Up Digital" he USES the results to paint a portrait of this generation that is entertaining, optimistic and convincing.

他在《成长中的数字化》一书中，用有趣、乐观、有说服力这样的词描述这一代人。

If this picture doesn't look very much like the glowing portrait Texas boosters like to paint, there's a reason: the glowing portrait is false.

如果这种情况并不像那些吹捧德克萨斯州的人士描绘的闪闪发光，原因就有一条：那种闪闪发光的图景本身就是假的。

The model then integrated the two pictures to paint a fuller portrait of the dusty disk.

计算完成以后，模型将这两个方面合并到一起，描绘出尘埃盘整体形象。

She asked an artist to paint her portrait.

她请一位艺术家为她画一幅肖像。

Genius: Historians believe that Da Vinci's love of riddles led him to paint himself as a woman - with some believing the Mona Lisa is a self-portrait.

天才：历史学家认为达芬奇对谜的喜爱使得他将自己绘成了女性——也有些人认为蒙娜丽莎就是一副自画像。

He commissioned the artist to paint a portrait for him.

他委托了那位画家为自己画一张肖像。

By your decisions you paint a portrait of Who you Are.

经由你的决定，你画出一幅你是谁的肖像。

An adopted Irish American artist confronts her past when both sets of parents come together over a weekend for her to paint a family portrait.

一个被收养的爱尔兰美国艺术家面对她的过去，当两组父母一起在一个周末，她画一幅家庭画像。

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

我每次画一幅肖像就失去一个朋友。

Mr Deaton USES these data to paint a portrait of how Americans view their lives in the aftermath of the financial crisis.

迪顿先生运用采集的数据，描绘出经历金融危机洗礼后的美国民众是怎样看待他们的生活的。

If anything, the obscure details of his interior life paint a subtler, more nuanced portrait of how one of the finest technology minds of our time grew into the dynamo that we remember him as today.

如果有的话，他的室内生活晦涩的细节描绘一个微妙的，我们这个时代最优秀的技术精英之一，我们记得他今天的发电机增长的更加细致入微的肖像。

Explaining how to design a green complex is much like an artist trying to explain how to paint a portrait.

解释来如何设计果岭及周边就很像一位艺术家试图讲解怎么来画肖像画。

Mrs. Flinders decided to have her portrait painted. She told the artist, Paint me with diamond earrings, a diamond necklace, emerald bracelets and a ruby pendant.

福林德斯夫人决定让人给她画肖像。她告诉那位肖像画家说：“画我带着钻石耳环、钻石项链、祖母绿手镯，还有红宝石垂饰。”

You are painting a portrait of yourself. The canvas on which you will paint is Life Itself.

想象你在给自己画自画像，而你的人生就是那块画布。

Can I paint a 2 portrait of you?

我能帮你画幅肖像画吗？