這個拼法底下其實是2個不同的字，意思沒有關係， 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 art (creative expression) · archaic 'are' (thou art)
art
n核心畫面
Think of a human hand shaping something with skill so that it carries beauty or an idea — paint on a canvas, a chisel on stone. From that one picture everything spreads out: the things that hand produces, the school subject where you learn the skill, the whole world of creative work, and finally any skill you get good at through practice.
可以想成一雙手用本事把東西做出來，讓它帶著美感或想法——畫筆落在畫布上、刻刀鑿進石頭裡。整個字都從這一幕往外散開：那…更多收起
可以想成一雙手用本事把東西做出來，讓它帶著美感或想法——畫筆落在畫布上、刻刀鑿進石頭裡。整個字都從這一幕往外散開：那雙手做出來的成品、學這門本事的學科、整個創作的領域，最後連任何靠練習磨出來的本領都算進來。A second word, same spelling
art
v核心畫面
A completely different word that only shares the spelling: this 'art' is an old form of the verb 'be'. Picture old poetry or the Bible — 'thou art' simply means 'you are'. It has nothing to do with paintings; it is the verb 'are' said the old-fashioned way to one person.
這是另一個只是剛好同拼法的字：這個 art 是動詞 be（是）的古老形式。可以想成古詩或聖經裡的句子——thou a…更多收起
這是另一個只是剛好同拼法的字：這個 art 是動詞 be（是）的古老形式。可以想成古詩或聖經裡的句子——thou art 就是「你是」。它跟畫畫、藝術毫無關係，只是用古英文對著一個人講的「are」。原始詞典資料21 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Artname
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A diminutive of the male given name Arthur, from the Celtic languages.
artnoun詞源 1/ɑːt/
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The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
- There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism.
- B.W. Wooster: If you ask me, art is responsible for most of the trouble in the world. R. Jeeves: An interesting theory, sir. Would you care to expatiate upon it? B.W. Wooster: As a matter of fact, no, Jeeves. The thought just occurred to me, as thoughts do. R. Jeeves: Very good, sir.
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The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.
- 3
Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.
- She's mastered the art of programming.
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The study and the product of these processes.
- He's at university to study art.
- 5
Aesthetic value.
- Her photographs are nice, but there's no art in them.
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Artwork.
- Sotheby's regularly auctions art for millions.
- art collection
- 7
A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
- I'm a great supporter of the arts.
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(often in dichotomy with science) A subject understood best through intuition rather than methodology.
- Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
- A physician was immediately sent for; but on the first moment of beholding the corpse, he declared that Elvira's recovery was beyond the power of art.
- The relation of science to art may be summed up in a brief expression: From Science comes Prevision: from Prevision comes Action.
- 10
datedContrivance, scheming, manipulation.
- it was not art, Of wisdom and of justice when he spoke— When ’mid soft looks of pity, there would dart A glance as keen as is the lightning’s stroke When it doth rive the knots of some ancestral oak.
- [...] and Mrs. Earnshaw undertook to keep her sister-in-law in due restraint, when she returned home employing art, not force—with force she would have found it impossible.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。