| 单词 | abstract |
| 释义 | abstract (æbstrækt ) Word forms: abstracts , abstracting, abstractedpronunciation note: The adjective and noun are pronounced (æbstrækt ). The verb is pronounced (æbstrækt ). 1. adjective B2 An abstract idea or way of thinking is based on general ideas rather than on real things and events. ...abstract principles such as justice. It's not a question of some abstract concept. ...the faculty of abstract reasoning. abstractly adverb It is hard to think abstractly in these conditions. 2. in the abstract phrase When you talk or think about something in the abstract, you talk or think about it in a general way, rather than considering particular things or events. Money was a commodity she never thought about except in the abstract. 3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B2 In grammar, an abstract noun refers to a quality or idea rather than to a physical object. ...abstract words such as glory, honor, and courage. 4. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B2 Abstract art makes use of shapes and patterns rather than showing people or things. ...a modern abstract painting. Synonyms: symbolic, figurative, emblematic, impressionistic 5. countable noun An abstract is an abstract work of art. 6. countable noun An abstract of an article, document, or speech is a short piece of writing that gives the main points of it. 7. verb If you abstract something from a place, you take it from there. [formal] ...a licence to abstract water from the River Axe. [VERB noun from noun] The author has abstracted poems from earlier books. [VERB noun from noun] Synonyms: extract, draw, pull, remove Collocations: abstract argument In opposition, the pro- car lobby requires abstract arguments which refuse to address the same set of ' facts' and foreground ideology instead. The Times Literary Supplement We become absorbed with our abstract arguments, our ideological disputes, our contests for power. Christianity Today Unfortunately he could not follow abstract arguments or subtle issues and often found himself at a great disadvantage at these councils. Christianity Today Thank goodness we can resolve such matters quickly and get on to abstract arguments and unverifiable gossip. Times, Sunday Times In meetings, the managers preferred stories to abstract arguments or statistical measures. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are no rules to abstract art, so you can't go wrong. The Sun The 16 rooms are reached along creaky hallways and stairways decorated with abstract art. Times, Sunday Times Abstract art has always appealed to me, because it feels like a way of stitching the world together. Times, Sunday Times But we usually think of even abstract art as representing something in the outside world. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The tasteful interiors juxtapose abstract art with antiques. Times, Sunday Times Immediately — too immediately — he became an abstract artist. Times, Sunday Times He was a realist portrait painter and abstract artist. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They persecuted abstract artists, regarded their work as subversive or elitist. Times, Sunday Times These weren't just abstract artists. Times, Sunday Times Purist atheists, along with purist abstract artists, might regret this aspect of the chapel, but it shows clearly how the contrasts in the artist's life are not set in stone. Times, Sunday Times Then, it would have been difficult to imagine any abstract composition being selected for the exhibition, let alone winning a prize. Times, Sunday Times But he remained defiant as he handed over his latest abstract composition. Times, Sunday Times An artist who began with abstract composition has moved, in the space of just a few years, to interactive installations. Times, Sunday Times And so, gratifyingly, are abstract compositions, as well as those clever creations that negotiate the wobbly line between abstraction and the description of something recognisable. Times, Sunday Times His oil paintings are done in a classical realist style, and subjects include portraiture, photorealist abstract compositions, and historical illustration. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Moreover, the yearning to see him, after months of meeting social workers and talking about him as an abstract concept, was overwhelming. Times, Sunday Times In maths, the word 'three' refers to an abstract concept of number. Times, Sunday Times We use illustrations because they take an abstract concept and ground it in life. Christianity Today Before you arrive, 'university' feels like an abstract concept which exists but doesn't actually mean anything. Times, Sunday Times He's an abstract concept to me. Times, Sunday Times His early glassand-wire constructions successfully marry the handcrafted object with the most austere, abstract design. The Times Literary Supplement The music also gripped enough if we solely contemplated abstract design. Times, Sunday Times It has a magnetic marker that you adjust over the seemingly abstract design to reveal each date. Times, Sunday Times A small architectural scene, landscape, or abstract design was placed in the center with a monochrome background. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The artists created an abstract design for the windows that, in its modern simplicity, departed from the ornate, early sixteenth-century decoration of the chapel. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Though predominately perceived as geo (earth) related, spatial information can range from the anatomic to astronomic scale, from the real to the abstract entity, over any time period. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Name entities, in narrow sense, refer to concrete or abstract entities in the real world including people, organizations, companies, places etc. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In this context, vectors are abstract entities which may or may not be characterized by a magnitude and a direction. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By general agreement, abstract entities can not interact causally with concrete, physical entities. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In this view, parts may be entities normally regarded as physical, such as atoms or subatomic particles, but they may also be abstract entities, such as quantum states. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Like many abstract expressionist paintings, its ambitions are to take over the viewer's whole experience, not just to be something to admire on the wall. Times, Sunday Times The other had a lot of abstract expressionist marks on it. The Times Literary Supplement You're an abstract expressionist, not a decorator of hotel foyers. Times, Sunday Times In fact, we only find out at the far end of the display, in a section that feels tacked on, that he spent the 1950s as an abstract expressionist. Times, Sunday Times As a result, he eventually accumulated the world's largest private collection of abstract expressionist works. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Stark, arresting oil paintings recall the height of the abstract form, while his totemic sculptures embody his anti-commercial style, with a focus on simple, almost rural themes. Times, Sunday Times People have always been able to accept music as an entirely abstract form, but they have a lot of difficulty with art. Times, Sunday Times Still, it was the spiritual and symbolic properties of abstract form that were important. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The sculpture's ultimate abstract form reflects its meaning. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In very abstract form, neural oscillations can be analyzed analytically. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A leader can win their first election as an abstract idea. Times, Sunday Times But like all else here, it's a thoroughly abstract idea and makes too little sense to draw us in. Times, Sunday Times But this was a physical version of an abstract idea - the idea that the arts need to be accessible to all because of their power to transform lives. The Times Literary Supplement The framework provides six different transformations of an abstract idea (not increasing in detail, but transforming) from six different perspectives. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We conceive the abstract idea of life in terms of our experiences of a journey, a year, or a day. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He says that if we look for an abstract ideal of meaning we will not find it. Christianity Today Foreign intervention tends to succeed when in support of an identifiable leader or existing administration; and tends to fail when in support of an abstract ideal. Times, Sunday Times The abstract ideal may invoke logic, clarity, or the grammar of classic languages. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Furthermore, he argues that we do not need a fully established abstract ideal of justice to evaluate the fairness of different institutions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Religious pluralism and tolerance are not mere abstract ideals. Times, Sunday Times He began to use a combination of digital technology and watercolors to create fantastical abstract images, bursting with color. Smithsonian Mag I think she was reaching outwards to create abstract images. Times, Sunday Times Abstract images - sequence of 150 random blobs. Times, Sunday Times They are entirely abstract images. Times, Sunday Times Music videos that aren't formally organized usually have no segmentation markings that flow with the lyrics, and contain abstract images. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He began to make large, gestural paintings which combined figurative and abstract imagery. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His early work used a lot of found imagery or combined multiple pieces of abstract imagery to create something new. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His work features a mixture of figurative and abstract imagery, and real and imagined spaces. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The high-contrast artwork displays dynamic curving lines uncommon in wood engraving, and combines abstract imagery with realistic details. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The artist's abstract imagery usually appears in her work as various forms of stripes or circles arranged across translucent layers of alternating matte and high gloss textures. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For some, abstract knowledge of what had happened became coupled with empathy - we were people, just like them. Times, Sunday Times The days of universities being ivory towers catering solely to the pursuit of academic, arcane and abstract knowledge are fading into history. Times, Sunday Times A surgeon, for example, would need to show that he or she had the right technical skills rather than simply demonstrate abstract knowledge. Times, Sunday Times To get out of it, in turn, entails a different mode of evasion, in which abstract knowledge substitutes for the painful process of learning from experience. The Times Literary Supplement Maybe we get abstract knowledge from concrete data because we already know a lot, and especially because we already have an array of basic abstract concepts, thanks to evolution. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She sees it as an abstract landscape. Times, Sunday Times So his wall drawings involve huge panoramas wavering between abstract landscape and cartography. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the 1960s, fishermen, boats and sailboats in front of an abstract landscape imagery began funding. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She began making abstract landscape diptychs in the 1980s, for which she gained success nationally and internationally. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 1969-70 he painted the most abstract landscapes of his career. The Times Literary Supplement Doctrinal issues may require abstract language to explain, but they are not primarily academic. Christianity Today It would have done just as well today because abstract language sells best. Times, Sunday Times And she was far more likely to express herself in these concrete terms than in the abstract language of the academic. Times, Sunday Times Known as word problems, they are used in mathematics education to teach students to connect real-world situations to the abstract language of mathematics. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its architecture strikes a balance between the needs of realtime computation and the flexibility and simplicity of an abstract language. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 All are about buying into an abstract notion (the state, the club, the company), not just because it pays you, but because it matters in a more visceral sense. Times, Sunday Times More often, failure can come down to the abstract notion of a two-hour movie simply not marrying with the images a reader has carried around for days, weeks, months. Times, Sunday Times If the government imposes private sector salary scales based on an abstract notion of what's fair, the consumer no longer exercises sovereignty. Times, Sunday Times He devotes an entire chapter to the social sciences, arguing that by the end of the 1940s they had become fixated on an abstract notion of 'choice' and 'individual preference'. The Times Literary Supplement However, a subsequent opinion of the same court emphasized that piercing could not take place merely to prevent an abstract notion of unfairness or injustice. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Here he investigated the concepts of meaning, reference, subject and predicate, existence, abstract objects, facts, truth and verification. Times, Sunday Times Abstract objects are apparently uncongenial; he finds it 'independently plausible' that mathematical truths are not made true by anything at all. The Times Literary Supplement According to an intensional definition, they are abstract objects that are defined by values of aspects that are constraints for being member of the class. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It may be described as treating actions themselves as abstract objects, putting value to them. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It may refer to denial of the existence of abstract objects or entities, while accepting the existence of concrete objects or entities. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By the time we reach his last pictures, he has become a quietly monumental abstract painter. Times, Sunday Times But that was not the way that an abstract painter born in 1903 would have arrived at his mature style. Times, Sunday Times He was not an abstract painter, he would always insist. Times, Sunday Times Being so close to his work meant that he was unable to see it properly, effectively making him an abstract painter. Times, Sunday Times Starting as an abstract painter, she paints on materials she finds in the street: cardboard, wood, etc. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He learns to express himself through abstract painting; he exchanges his leather hoodie and trainers for a respectable suit. Times, Sunday Times A remarkable multicoloured map of the brain that resembles an abstract painting has been created using a new method for staining nerve cells. Times, Sunday Times It's like abstract painting: as words it doesn't mean anything, but as an attitude it means everything. Times,Sunday Times Nothing inherently dramatic about that, only here they are filmed in the reflection of an abstract painting. Times, Sunday Times In the water, reflections of greengold and red-edged beech trees smoulder like a living, abstract painting. Times, Sunday Times Draw a 'string' — a straight or curved line dividing the tile — and create an abstract pattern. Times, Sunday Times It's all about the shoes: the emerald green, the abstract pattern, the pointy heels. Times, Sunday Times Yet sometimes, as in the early series of paintings, using the shape of a pitched tent, the abstract pattern can seem loaded with meaning. The Times Literary Supplement The abstract pattern creates the softened look of aged, faded carpet — perfect for an industrial-style interior. Times, Sunday Times The buildings faade has dark gray, maroon, and pink panels in an abstract pattern. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If compensation were structured to reflect some abstract principle of fairness, it would result in unemployment sometimes in some regions, and labour shortages at other times. Times,Sunday Times No single abstract principle can be so used as to yield to the philosopher anything like a scientifically accurate and genuinely useful casuistic scale. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A study observed that example choice increased interest in learning an abstract principle, and participants in the study invested more time to learn. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Abstract principles are too often divorced from the life-giving stories that visions create. Christianity Today Translate abstract principles into terms of concrete relationships. Christianity Today We tend to drift away from arguments about abstract reasoning. Times, Sunday Times Crucially, they were able to complete the task without any special training, suggesting the birds were capable of a level of abstract reasoning and creativity normally associated only with humans. Times, Sunday Times While memory skills and brain speed both decline, verbal abilities, spatial reasoning, simple maths abilities and abstract reasoning skills all improve in middle age. Times, Sunday Times The tests measure problem-solving ability and a person's capacity for abstract reasoning. Times, Sunday Times He reads the game, not through abstract reasoning, but perceptual intelligence. Times, Sunday Times It allows for the reader to make their own abstract representation of the situation at hand. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The act ends with an abstract representation of the passing of the year. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Transform the superimposed molecules into an abstract representation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In a network, an abstract representation of network resources that are managed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The etymology of the character can possibly be traced back to the abstract representation of a totem symbol. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I was astounded: a world-class piece of abstract sculpture on a council estate. Times, Sunday Times Nobody had ever seen abstract sculpture of such austere lucidity. Smithsonian Mag This 'dropper' can be seen as an abstract sculpture but could also be used to hold one or two flowers. Times, Sunday Times Also, these walls were free to pierce the glass exterior walls and join up at interesting angles like abstract sculpture. Globe and Mail This abstract sculpture was installed on a concrete plinth with two plaques on adjacent sides. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It encases your gift in an abstract shape, so there's absolutely no guessing what's inside. Times, Sunday Times He also pioneered what would become known as crop-circles, abstract shapes cut into wheat fields, with himself, not visitors from space, as the alien. Times, Sunday Times The droll, uninflected presentation becomes a humorously literal exploration of complex theories about how meaning adheres to abstract shapes and sounds to form language. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Behind and in front, seemingly hectoring him, are spiky zig-zagging abstract shapes that vaguely resemble stick insects and praying mantises. The Times Literary Supplement Her images tend to eschew the conventions of fashion photography to focus on the bold, abstract shapes she creates with props and garments. Times, Sunday Times He also produced a large number of landscapes in this synchromistic and relatively abstract style beginning in 1926. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He worked in watercolor, acrylic, and oil and developed a unique abstract style. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He created his own abstract style which he named impulsionnism. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The result was a chaotic, abstract style, not always readable, but distinctive in appearance. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He latter painted also in a more abstract style. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A group of adolescents aged 12-17 years, and a group of young adults aged 18-32 years, completed tasks in which they had to choose between abstract symbols. Times, Sunday Times Using abstract symbols, the artists explored their spirituality and the connection between mysticism and science. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Marks come in two varieties, abbreviations and abstract symbols. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Animal carvings, human figures, and many other abstract symbols are sketched on the mountains. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The others have a variety of mainly abstract symbols. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In more abstract terms, these simple brains are forming representations of the insides (and subsequently the outsides) of the organisms that contain them. The Times Literary Supplement He has long talked in abstract terms about the responsibilty owed to future generations, sounding a little broody at times. Times, Sunday Times By two years, they can begin to string simple words together and start to understand abstract terms like 'yours' and 'mine'. The Sun I can't define it in abstract terms --yet. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Driver 8 describes the scenery surrounding railroad tracks in somewhat abstract terms. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are, of course, limits to this abstract theory. Times, Sunday Times Abstract theory and casuistry result. Times,Sunday Times In addition, the young science was enriched by a new instrument, the abstract theory of relations (p. 120-121). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The rise of the historical school of jurisprudence provided allies in the struggle against the dominance of the abstract theory. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Later, the concrete structure of sets was abstracted away - taken only up to isomorphism, to produce the abstract theory of arithmetic. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They don't love abstract thinking skills; they love the thrill of discovery in their own special field. Times, Sunday Times Luckily, abstract thinking applies a lot to my job. Times, Sunday Times Naturally enough, he introduced chess into the curriculums to help pupils to develop their powers of rational and abstract thinking. Times, Sunday Times Areas linked to abstract thinking and empathy showed virtually no increase in stimulation. Times, Sunday Times And abstract thinking can be seen in the design of such tools. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Those who make it to the end of the novel will have amassed a stack of information and wrestled with some serious abstract thought. Times, Sunday Times The imagination needs abstract thought as much as emotion to run. Christianity Today Here are the pure clean patterns of abstract thought. Times, Sunday Times But it also has to do with our tendency to live life at lofty heights of abstract thought. Christianity Today In the 20th century, greater educational possibilities combined with technological advances introduced abstract thought into daily life. Times, Sunday Times From a young age, his intelligence and ability to comprehend highly abstract philosophical points were legendary. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, these words are highly abstract and ambiguous, and meaningful differences exist regarding what they actually mean or should mean in the real world. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Figurative shadows were projected from structures that were highly abstract, only revealing themselves under certain light conditions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Megalithic art tends to be highly abstract and contains relatively few representations of recognisable real objects. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He defined it as a highly abstract multi-dimensional hyperspace in which the organism's needs and properties were defined as dimensions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I’d never do a coloring book based on architecture or portraiture or purely abstract forms. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He gives some of them slight narratives and treats others as purely abstract. Times, Sunday Times Bold colours and shapes sit atop one another in a purely abstract manner. Times, Sunday Times She supported the idea that arithmetic was not purely abstract as many believed, but more anthropomorphic. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Her style became softer and more impressionistic than her work during and before the war, but it was only occasionally purely abstract. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 抽象的, 抽象作品 Japanese: 抽象的な, 抽象芸術作品 |
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