arts

1. N-UNCOUNT 艺术（品）；美术
   Art consists of paintings, sculpture, and other pictures or objects which are created for people to look at and admire or think deeply about.
   1. ...the first exhibition of such art in the West.
      此类艺术品在西方的首次展览
   2. ...contemporary and modern American art.
      近现代美洲艺术
   3. ...Whitechapel Art Gallery.
      白教堂美术馆
2. N-UNCOUNT （作为活动或教学科目的）美术
   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.
   1. ...a painter, content to be left alone with her all-absorbing art.
      甘愿独自沉浸于绘画中的画家
   2. ...Farnham College of Art and Design.
      法纳姆美术设计学院
   3. ...art lessons.
      美术课
3. N-VAR 艺术（活动）（如音乐、绘画、文学、电影、舞蹈等）
   The arts are activities such as music, painting, literature, cinema, and dance, which people can take part in for enjoyment, or to create works which express serious meanings or ideas of beauty.
   1. Catherine the Great was a patron of the arts and sciences.
      叶卡捷琳娜大帝赞助过各种艺术创作和科学研究。
   2. ...the Arts Council of Great Britain.
      大不列颠艺术委员会
   3. ...the Wexner Centre for the Visual Arts.
      威克斯纳视觉艺术中心
   4. ...the art of cinema.
      电影艺术
4. N-PLURAL 人文学科;文科
   At a university or college, arts are subjects such as history, literature, or languages in contrast to scientific subjects.
   1. ...arts and social science graduates.
      人文和社会科学毕业生
   2. ...the Faculty of Arts.
      文学院
5. ADJ （用于剧院或电影院的名称中）上演艺术作品的，艺术的
   Arts or art is used in the names of theatres or cinemas which show plays or films that are intended to make the audience think deeply about the content, and not simply to entertain them.
   1. ...the Cambridge Arts Cinema.
      剑桥艺术影院
6. N-COUNT 技术；技艺；技巧
   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.
   1. Fishing is an art.
      钓鱼是一门技术。
   2. ...the unscientific arts of seduction and romance.
      勾引异性和谈情说爱的不科学的技巧
7. （be的现在式单数第二人称形式，过时用法）
   Art is an old-fashioned form of the second person singular of the present tense of the verb be.
   1. Father, I know thou art aware of me at all times.
      父亲，我知道您无时无刻不在关心着我。
8. See also: Bachelor of Arts fine art martial art Master of Arts state-of-the-art work of art

1. He was a man of catholic tastes, a lover of grand opera, history and the fine arts.
   他这个人兴趣广泛，大歌剧、历史、美术，无所不好。
2. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
   英国电影和电视艺术学院
3. The arts should be available to more people at prices they can afford
   艺术品应该以人们能够承受的价格面向更多的人出售。
4. Catherine the Great was a patron of the arts and sciences.
   叶卡捷琳娜大帝赞助过各种艺术创作和科学研究。
5. In his old age he became a benefactor of the arts.
   他晚年成了一个艺术赞助人。
6. His interests extended beyond the fine arts to international politics and philosophy.
   他兴趣广泛，涵盖了从美术到国际政治乃至哲学的各个领域。
7. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has already contracted to lease part of its collection to a museum in Japan.
   波士顿美术博物馆已经签订合同，将其部分藏品租借给日本一家博物馆。
8. The President, trying to be cute, said his liberal arts education had not really prepared him for such complicated issues as this
   总统故作精明地说道，自己所接受的文科教育并不能使自己有能力应付如此复杂的问题。
9. Their friendship developed through their shared interest in the Arts.
   对艺术的共同爱好加深了他们之间的友谊。
10. He entered Otago University to study arts and divinity.
    他进入奥特哥大学学习艺术和神学。
11. The Government came under fire yesterday for favouring elitist arts groups in the South-east
    昨天，政府因为偏袒东南部的一些精英艺术群体而遭到抨击。
12. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth whatever criteria the Arts Council employ for this exercise.
    无论艺术委员会采取哪种标准来评判这次训练，总会有人哀怨，有人气愤。
13. One per cent of total public spending should eventually go towards the arts
    公共事业总支出的1%最终应当花在艺术事业上。
14. There has been a decline in enrollment in liberal arts courses in favor of highly specialized training for high-paying careers, mostly in business.
    文科课程的报名人数有所下降，而以商业为主、针对高薪职业的高度专业化培训课程则越来越受欢迎。
15. His natural milieu is that of the arts.
    他生于艺术之家。
16. The exhibition at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts is more a production than it is a museum display
    波士顿美术博物馆的展览与其说是一次博物馆展出，倒不如说是一场精心设计的展演活动。
17. The Festival Of Asian Arts& Music will include two days of live performances.
    亚洲艺术音乐节将安排两天的现场表演。
18. He left a career in teaching to take up a position with the Arts Council
    他辞去教学工作到艺术委员会任职。
19. Private sponsorships only accounted for a third of all arts funding last year.
    个人赞助只占去年所有艺术基金的三分之一。
20. When it is done properly, arts sponsorship can be more effective than advertising.
    如果方式得当的话，艺术赞助可能比做广告更有效。
21. New theatres and arts centres sprang up all over the country.
    新的剧院和艺术中心突然在全国各地涌现出来。
22. The professor rather threw me by asking if I went in for martial arts
    教授问我是否爱好武术，这个问题让我吃了一惊。
23. Local authorities are likely to refuse to hire facilities to unrecognised martial arts organisations.
    当地的主管机构可能会拒绝向非官方的武术组织出租设备。
24. Birmingham's International Convention Centre is the venue for a three-day arts festival
    为期3天的艺术节在伯明翰的国际会议中心举办。
25. Vocational courses are often given more respect and funding than arts or philosophy.
    职业技术类课程通常能够获得比艺术或哲学类课程更多的重视和资助。
26. He was clever, well-read and interested in the arts.
    他很聪明，博览群书，并且对艺术很感兴趣。
27. New arts have been born in the course of the history of men.
    在人类历史发展过程中不断产生新的艺术。
28. He always regards himself as an authority on arts.
    他一向以艺术权威自居。
29. She is expert at Chinese boxing.; She is expert at martial arts.
    她的武术练到家了。
30. Painting sculpture architecture etc. are collectively called the “ fine arts ” or “ plastic arts ”.
    绘画、雕塑、建筑等统称为造型艺术。

noun

1. studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
   1. the college of arts and sciences

   Synonym:    humanistic disciplinehumanitiesliberal arts