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n.
人工
不自然
不自然之物
人造物
复数:artificialities
词根:artifact
adj.artificial 人造的;仿造的;虚伪的;非原产地的;武断的
adv.artificially 人工地;人为地;不自然地
n.artifact 人工制品;手工艺品
adjective
humanly contrived (see contrive sense 1b) often on a natural model : man-made artificial diamonds
an artificial limb
having existence in legal, economic, or political theory
caused or produced by a human and especially social or political agency Within these companies, qualified women run into artificial barriers that prevent them from advancing to top positions in management.—James J. Kilpatrick
an artificial price advantage
lacking in natural or spontaneous quality an artificial excitement
an artificial smile
imitation, sham
artificial flavor
based on differential morphological characters not necessarily indicative of natural relationships
an artificial key for plant identification
obsolete artful, cunning
"艺术的外表; 不真诚",1763年; 见 artificial + -ity。更早的词是 artificialness(1590年代); 中古英语有 artificy(15世纪早期)。
Middle English, "devised by humans (as opposed to originating naturally or divinely)," borrowed from Middle French & Medieval Latin; Middle French artificiel, borrowed from Medieval Latin artificiālis "produced by human skill, skilled, artistic," going back to Latin, "furnished or contrived by art (in rhetoric)," from artificium "artistry, craftsmanship, craft" + -ālis -al >entry 1 — more at artifice
The first known use of artificial was in the 15th century
artisannoun
a skilled workerespecially: one (as a carpenter) whose occupation requires skill with the hands
artillerynoun
large firearms (as cannon or rockets)
a branch of an army armed with artillery
artificialadjective
made, produced, or performed by human beings often following a natural model or process artificial pollination
artificial flowers
not genuine or sincere : forced
an artificial smile
artificialadjective
made, produced, or performed by human beings often following a natural model or process artificial pollination
artificial flowers
not genuine or sincere : forced
an artificial smile
1 The artist himself rejects this reading, insisting that he has no interest in poetry, even dislikes what he sees as its artificiality and penchant for ego-centered sentimentality.
2 Adams infused the eclecticism — and the sometimes anti-dramatic artificiality — of these texts with music of fast-shifting colors and energy, of tenderness and unexpected, haunting effects.
3 The blatant artificiality drains the vileness of its potency.
4 Compared with natural soil and water loss, urban soil and water loss has the features of artificiality, complexity, seriousness and regulation.
与自然水土流失相比,城市水土流失具有人为性、复杂性、严重性和可调控性等特点。
5 You cannot sell artificiality to the Europeans and the Americans. They will see through it immediately.
欧洲人和美洲人不会接受假唱,他们一眼就能看出来。
6 It's as though the label is atoning on our behalf for pop's artificiality and sonic profligacy, taking us back to basics with some real and raw rock'n'roll.
7 That sounds paradoxical, but artificiality is a welcome attraction in many vintage who-and-howdunits.
8 Are we talking about artificiality and the lure of false values?
9 There is admittedly artificiality and oversimplification in this approach.
人们承认这种方法带有人为性并且过分简单化.
10 And there’s such an artificiality to the whole enterprise that the humans themselves almost seem digital, as if they’ve been Polar Express-ed.
11 One minute, his actors are dragging you deep into the story with raw emotion; the next, they’re pushing you out of the movie with brittle, self-conscious artificiality.
12 “Fake” is the name of Mr. Ai’s studio, a translinguistic pun playing with the ideas of authenticity and artificiality that inform much contemporary art.
13 And there’s a clear difference between the one-time wrestler’s performance and those of the actors playing replicants in the first movie, who often seemed deliberately supercharged with artificiality.
14 The playing invites superlatives, even as it defies the complexity and artificiality of the organ to such an extent that it allows a rare focus on the music itself.
15 But one of the young people I took with me felt that the awkward artificiality of the evening actually served its underlying message.
16 Hooper: It came out of feeling that, even in my favorite musicals, you have to forgive a slight artificiality in the lip-syncing.
17 The film afflicts us with scenes of terrible violence against the robot characters, but after all they’re “only destroying artificiality”, pouring acid on or eviscerating machines.
18 There's no film sequence at the midpoint of the second act, but a scene and costume change in full view of the audience, as if emphasising the artificiality of the whole savage fable.
19 “Ah, the smell of artificiality,” one says before tasting a strawberry Pop-Tart.
20 It may now seem faded and artificial, but its inhabitants were aesthetes and dandies, and artificiality was the whole point.
1 赝品
schlenter fake tack bastard imitation phony forgery shoddy doublet simulacrum duffer pinchbeck goldbrick
2 做作
plastic camp fake precious affected unnatural pretentious studied la-di-da artificially unnaturally pretentiously affectedly pretension preciousness pretentiousness tatty-peelin flash scenic strained grandiose Hollywood stilted feigned factitious put-on grandiloquent sententious orotund minikin bigass act art semblance dramatics grandiloquence pose dramatize artificial theatrical contrived practiced cutesie cutely side Art playacting playact
3 人为
technical artificial man-made inorganic artful contrived anthropogenic hyped-up factitious got-up artificially factitiously Art
4 不自然
plastic artificial conscious stiff forced theatrical unnatural unreal monstrous strained self-conscious taut contrived constrained galvanic mannered stilted left-footed labored factitious agonistic farfetched kindless unnaturalize artificialize against nature violent affected tense unhealthy uncanny pathological studied practiced disnatured nonnatural unnaturally theatrically self-consciously stiltedly denaturalize