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审美
Aesthetic
Aesthetics happen.
美学发生。
So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.
我的审美很大程度上是由我父亲形成的。
I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
我想我只是有一种自然的歌剧美学。我没办法。
I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.
我讨厌红头发,但人们似乎喜欢这种审美。
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
几乎所有的犯罪都源于对审美表达的压抑欲望。
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
文学想象是作家向爱书者提供的审美对象。
I can't really change the games I like to make, and I can't change my own particular aesthetic.
我不能真正改变我喜欢的游戏,也不能改变我自己独特的审美。
Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic.
当然,这取决于项目本身,但我不认为我能把自己从审美中分离出来。
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
我花了六七年的时间写一些非常小的书。有一种简洁的美学。
A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.
很多孩子都没有成熟的审美观。我做到了。我很早就做出了选择,甚至是衣服;我喜欢法兰绒,不喜欢涤纶。
To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.
将生命的意义融入自然和艺术之中,使生命的享受意义成为生活的一部分,是一种审美的态度。
The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.
建筑美学必须根植于对人类活动的更广泛的理解,比如散步、放松和交流。体系结构考虑如何为这些活动提供附加价值。
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I've always been attracted to the darker things in life. I was never one to go for light, airy stuff, even as a child. My whole aesthetic has always been one of the darker side. That rings true also in my tastes in music. It's just always something I've gravitated to naturally.
我总是被生活中黑暗的事物所吸引。我从来都不喜欢轻飘飘的东西,即使是小时候。我的整个审美一直都是黑暗的一面。我对音乐的品味也是如此。这是我天生就喜欢做的事。
While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.
虽然艺术界的很大一部分人痴迷于少数明星及其价格,但审美观念正在发生转变。这不是一场运动——运动对自己更有信心。这是一种情绪或期望的改变,一种对艺术的渴望,不仅仅是炫目的效果、大数字和花招。
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
设计是把形式和内容放在一起的方法。设计和艺术一样,有多种定义;没有单一的定义。设计可以是艺术。设计可以是美学。设计如此简单,这就是为什么它如此复杂。
I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.
我想说的是美学命题,它来自于对一个世界的人类元素的学习,所以这些音符和节奏对你来说,除了它们在学术上的地位之外,还有其他的意义。
I'm a passionate believer in the inherent creativity possessed by all people and our inherent ability--if it's not clouded by convention--to appreciate authentic beauty in all forms, whether we like it or not.
我坚信所有人与生俱来的创造力,以及我们与生俱来的能力——如果不被传统所蒙蔽——欣赏各种形式的真美,不管我们喜不喜欢。