| 单词 | art |
| 释义 | art I. archaic present second singular of be II. 1. a. < there's an art to tightrope walking > b. (1) < are these chipped stones the product of art > (2) obsolete 2. a. < the College of Arts and Sciences > b. arts plural < bachelor of arts > c. archaic 3. a. b. < the art of Wool, that is, … the corporation of the dealers in wool — C.E.Norton > c. < the art of building > < the art of engraving > < the art of navigation > d. 4. a. b. < an art gallery > 5. a. archaic < employed every art to soothe the discontented — T.B.Macaulay > b. < I swear I use no art at all — Shakespeare > < she owes her wavy hair to art rather than to nature > c. < arts that allure, the magic nod and wink — Robert Browning > 6. a. b. < art needlework > 7. a. b. c. d. e. 8. Synonyms: < a first-rate specimen of the composer's art, the interpreter's skill and the engineer's craft — Herbert Weinstock > < dentistry as a skill alone is limited at present largely to repair and restoration — J.B.Conant > < varying skill and thoroughness in the detection of crime — Havelock Ellis > < a skilled toolmaker > cunning may emphasize special, often tricky, inventive or creative power < the cunning and consummate artistry by which he has achieved certain effects — J.D.Adams > < his unerring eye and his incomparable cunning of hand … a most able painter — Laurence Binyon > < a scout whose cunning exceeded that of the Indian — American Guide Series: Arizona > artifice can stress skill or intelligence in contriving or devising, but usually stresses at the same time a certain lack of true creative power, a certain artificiality < what amazing artifice is found under that apparently straightforward tale — A.T.Quiller-Couch > < no matter what skill is displayed toward objectifying fiction, the omniscience of the author is naturally assumed … but such is artifice that it attempts to conceal this basic convention — Robert Humphrey > < he heightened the artifice of this style — its inversions, its verbal encrustation, its complexity of syntax, yet combined it with the natural speech rhythms and homely idioms — C.D.Lewis > craft can suggest ingenuity and subtlety in workmanship or trickery or guile; applied to a skilled pursuit or vocation, it may suggest a lower type of skill or inventive power joined with mastery of materials and technique but lacking true creative force or quality < professional writers who take their craft seriously — M.D.Geismar > < small teams of dressmakers, each of them a mistress of her craft — Choice of Careers: Dressmaking > < no great artist but a master of his craft > art is the most variable of these words in meaning, often interchangeable with, often contrasting with, the others: its significant weight can fall upon recondite, inventive, or creative power < the rare art of the alchemist or witch doctor > It can, like skill, suggest proficiency or expertness < the shoemaker's art > < arts such as medicine, husbandry — Benjamin Farrington > or, like craft, or, rarely, like artifice, can point to skill, ingenuity, and inventiveness in contriving even though the act or result lacks any true creative force or quality < handmade tools, utensils, and furniture of the premachine age, … are interesting as art because of skillful handling of materials — American Guide Series: Michigan > < practicing their arts as masons, brickmakers, carpenters, leather dressers — American Guide Series: Maryland > < to gain an end by one art or another > But more frequently and in its most distinct sense art contrasts with skill, artifice, and craft in putting stress upon something more, in implying a personal, unanalyzable creative force that transmits and raises the art or product beyond a skill, artifice, or craft though it may involve the essential elements of all of these < to turn from the mere skill of figurine making to the art of sculpture > < most of the symbolic details are examples of artifice rather than of art — R.M.Kain > < so much English acting which is very fine … is so satisfactory as craft and so limited as art — H.E.Clurman > III. 1. < an art ballad > < an art song > 2. < art pottery > IV. 1. 2. 3. 4. |
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