| 单词 | the natural |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe natural 9. the natural. extracted from naturaln.1ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > originality or non-imitation > [noun] > the real thing the natural1589 life1600 original1624 (the) genuine article1794 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation > the thing copied the natural1589 original1624 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxv. 254 Painting..represents the naturall by light colour and shadow in the superficiall or flat. 1659 J. Leak tr. I. de Caus New Inventions Water-works 31 The Paper was not large enough to draw it so large as the Natural. a1691 Sir D. North in H. Roscoe North's Lives (1826) II. 349 I saw many artificial grots and rocks.., in which the natural of this [petrifaction] was perfectly imitated. b. That which belongs to the natural world or occurs in the ordinary course of things. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] > nature > natural order or course of nature i-cundeeOE course of kindc1325 course of nature1511–12 natural order1531 the natural1765 1765 H. Walpole Let. 16 Mar. (1980) XL. 377 An attempt to blend the marvellous of old story with the natural of modern novels. 1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. §15. 57 To study the Supernatural as the Philosopher studies the Natural. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xiv. 254 In the absence of the highest aims, of the pure..we have the factitious instead of the natural; tasteless expense, arts..man and his objects. 1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist i. §3. 20 If the narrative..moved completely in the region of the natural. 1906 J. London White Fang iii. i. 121 To his mind this was power unusual, power inconceivable and beyond the natural, power that was god-like. 1959 B. Wall tr. T. de Chardin Phenomenon of Man iii. iii. 223 Are not the artificial, the moral and the juridical simply the hominized versions of the natural, the physical and the organic? 1992 Mod. Painters Spring 95/1 One of his concerns is to juxtapose primordial signs and symbols and modern technological shapes, to achieve an interplay between the natural and the man-made. < as lemmas |
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