| 单词 | liberal arts |
| 释义 | liberal arts (once / 7797 pages) n The liberal arts are basic college subjects in the humanities, like English, history, and philosophy. Most universities don't consider professional subjects, like engineering, to be part of the liberal arts. If you enroll at a liberal arts school, you'll get an education in general knowledge, learning how to read, write, and think about a variety of topics. Many universities distinguish between subjects by having separate colleges for liberal arts, sciences, and professional areas of study. In classical times, the liberal arts — or in Latin, the artes liberales, were the areas of knowledge that were seen as essential for a free person. Liberales, in fact, means "free." WORD FAMILYliberal arts USAGE EXAMPLESShe will represent Stetson University, a private liberal arts school in DeLand where she is studying history and anthropology. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) Sessions left home for college, attending a Methodist liberal arts college in Montgomery, Ala., called Huntingdon. Washington Post(Dec 24, 2016) “Josh is actually a good person,” said his friend Elizabeth Reaser, who appeared in “Liberal Arts” and plays a seductive student in “The Babylon Line.” New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) n studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills) Syn|Hypo|Hyper arts, humanistic discipline, humanities neoclassicism revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation classicalism, classicisma movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms Romantic Movement, Romanticisma movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization Englishthe discipline that studies the English language and literature historythe discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings art historythe academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculpture chronologythe determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events beaux arts, fine artsthe study and creation of visual works of art performing artsarts or skills that require public performance Occidentalismthe scholarly knowledge of western cultures and languages and people Oriental Studies, Orientalismthe scholarly knowledge of Asian cultures and languages and people philosophythe rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics literary studythe humanistic study of literature library sciencethe study of the principles and practices of library administration linguistics, philologythe humanistic study of language and literature musicologythe scholarly and scientific study of music Sinologythe study of Chinese history and language and culture stemmatics, stemmatologythe humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis) trivium(Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence quadrivium(Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy musical performancethe act of performing music dance, dancing, saltation, terpsichoretaking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music acting, performing, playacting, playingthe performance of a part or role in a drama paintingcreating a picture with paints carving, sculpturecreating figures or designs in three dimensions architecturethe discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings iconologythe branch of art history that studies visual images and their symbolic meaning (especially in social or political terms) glottochronologythe determination of how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language ethics, moral philosophythe philosophical study of moral values and rules aetiology, etiologythe philosophical study of causation aesthetics, esthetics(art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art) axiologythe study of values and value judgments jurisprudence, law, legal philosophythe branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do metaphysicsthe philosophical study of being and knowing dialecticany formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments logicthe branch of philosophy that analyzes inference epistemologythe philosophical theory of knowledge lit, literaturethe humanistic study of a body of literature comparative literaturestudy of literary works from different cultures (often in translation) lit crit, literary criticismthe informed analysis and evaluation of literature poeticsstudy of poetic works classicsstudy of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome rhetoricstudy of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking) dialectologythe branch of philology that is devoted to the study of dialects lexicologythe branch of linguistics that studies the lexical component of language transcendental philosophy, transcendentalismany system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material bailiwick, discipline, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field a branch of knowledge |
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