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. 藝術品

...the first exhibition of such art in the West. …這種藝術品在西方的初次展出。

...contemporary and modern American art. …美國儅代與現代的藝術品。

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. 藝術

...a painter, content to be left alone with her all-absorbing art. …一個樂於獨自沉浸在她的迷人藝術中的畫家。

...Savannah College of Art and Design. …薩瓦納藝術設計學院。

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. 藝術活動

Catherine the Great was a patron of the arts and sciences. 葉卡捷琳娜大帝是藝術和科學活動的贊助人。

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

...arts and social science graduates. …人文與社會科學的畢業生們。

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. 藝術性的[ADJ n]

...a lower Manhattan art theatre. …下曼哈頓區的一座藝術劇院。

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. 技藝

...pioneers who transformed clinical medicine from an art to a science. …把臨牀毉學從技藝轉化成科學的先敺們。

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