art

1. N-UNCOUNT Art consists of paintings, sculpture, and other pictures or objects that are created for people to look at and admire or think deeply about. 艺术品

...the first exhibition of such art in the West. …这种艺术品在西方的初次展出。

...contemporary and modern American art. …美国当代与现代的艺术品。

2. N-UNCOUNT Art is the activity or educational subject that consists of creating paintings, sculptures, and other pictures or objects for people to look at and admire or think deeply about. 艺术

...a painter, content to be left alone with her all-absorbing art. …一个乐于独自沉浸在她的迷人艺术中的画家。

...Savannah College of Art and Design. …萨瓦纳艺术设计学院。

3. N-VAR Thearts are activities such as music, painting, literature, film, and dance, which people can take part in for enjoyment, or to create works that express certain meanings or ideas of beauty. 艺术活动

Catherine the Great was a patron of the arts and sciences. 叶卡捷琳娜大帝是艺术和科学活动的赞助人。

4. N-PLURAL At a university or college, arts are subjects such as history, literature, or languages in contrast to scientific subjects. 人文学科

...arts and social science graduates. …人文与社会科学的毕业生们。

5. ADJ Arts or art is used to describe theatres that show plays or films that are intended to make the audience think deeply about the content, and not simply to entertain them. 艺术性的[ADJ n]

...a lower Manhattan art theatre. …下曼哈顿区的一座艺术剧院。

6. N-COUNT If you describe an activity as an art, you mean that it requires skill and that people learn to do it by instinct or experience, rather than by learning facts or rules. 技艺

...pioneers who transformed clinical medicine from an art to a science. …把临床医学从技艺转化成科学的先驱们。

7. →see also fine art , martial art , state-of-the-art , work of art

8. V [archaic] →a singular form of the present tense (indicative mood) of be