The question of whether our government should promote science and technology or the liberal arts in higher education isn't an either/or proposition(命題),although the current emphasis on preparing young Americans for STEM（science, technology, engineering, maths）-related fields can make it seem that way.
出自-2014年6月閱讀原文
The liberal arts in higher education help enrich students' spiritual life
出自-2014年6月閱讀原文
Simultaneously, the liberal arts become more important than ever.
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
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藝術（品）；美術
Art consists of paintings, sculpture, and other pictures or objects which are created for people to look at and admire or think deeply about.
例句
...the first exhibition of such art in the West.
此類藝術品在西方的首次展覽
...contemporary and modern American art.
近現(xiàn)代美洲藝術
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（作為活動或教學科目的）美術
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.
例句
...a painter, content to be left alone with her all-absorbing art.
甘愿獨自沉浸于繪畫中的畫家
...Farnham College of Art and Design.
法納姆美術設計學院
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藝術（活動）（如音樂、繪畫、文學、電影、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.
例句
Catherine the Great was a patron of the arts and sciences.
葉卡捷琳娜大帝贊助過各種藝術創(chuàng)作和科學研究。
...the Arts Council of Great Britain.
大不列顛藝術委員會
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人文學科;文科
At a university or college, arts are subjects such as history, literature, or languages in contrast to scientific subjects.
例句
...arts and social science graduates.
人文和社會科學畢業(yè)生
...the Faculty of Arts.
文學院
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（用于劇院或電影院的名稱中）上演藝術作品的，藝術的
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.
例句
...the Cambridge Arts Cinema.
劍橋藝術影院
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技術；技藝；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.
例句
Fishing is an art.
釣魚是一門技術。
...the unscientific arts of seduction and romance.
勾引異性和談情說愛的不科學的技巧
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（be的現(xiàn)在式單數(shù)第二人稱形式，過時用法）
Art is an old-fashioned form of the second person singular of the present tense of the verb be.
例句
Father, I know thou art aware of me at all times.
父親，我知道您無時無刻不在關心著我。