For years, he had always been planning to paint a work of art, but had never yet begun it.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

The butterfly is the perfect work of art because it is both a representation and alive. It has eyes on its wings.

这只蝴蝶是一个完美的艺术作品,因为它不但是画像，也是,鲜活的，它的翅膀上有眼睛。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I like having different art pieces that can interact with the room in a way that are not too intrusive.

我喜欢拥有不同的艺术作品，它们可以以某种方式和房间交流融合，而不会显得很格格不入。

喜欢的艺术家 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

For example, in nineteen twenty-one, a Swiss doctor, Walter Morgenthaler published a book about the art of his patient, Adolf Wolfli.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

It's the Christian art of ministering to a religious flock, it's that of the pastor, and it's the more classical art of poetry.

这是指基督教牧师向信徒们布道的艺术，也是指诗歌更为古典的艺术。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But it is also a museum filled with art and sculpture that tell about America's social and political history.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

Right. You really have to have a wise passiveness that moment to really think that every piece of art have that kind of duty behind it.

的确，一个人必须要有这种聪悟的被动,才能在那一瞬间理解到每一个艺术作品,背后都有这个的意义。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Today,we travel through city streets all over the world to explore street art, a popular and lively art movement.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

And there are theories who say that by its definition film is not literary but it's a visual art.

也有理论家认它的定义说明,电影并非文学,而是一种视觉的艺术。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

It is housed at the Carnegie Museum, which has both an art museum and a museum of natural history.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

So going to an art museum or being a couch potato and swilling beer, watching television at home.

是去美术馆还是做个沙发土豆,宅在家边吃薯条喝啤酒，边看电视。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

But the city also has the American Visionary Art Museum, a museum that celebrates the work of self-taught individuals.

VOA: special.2011.03.07

Significantly, this picture of Yeats as King Goll was used as an illustration for his first appearance in an English periodical a magazine of art and ideas called The Leisure Hour.

叶芝扮作郭尔王的这幅画,首先出现在一份英国艺术和思想,期刊休闲时刻上，作为他首次,公开亮相，这很重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Beadwork has a long history as an art form practiced by American Indians and other cultures around the world.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

The art of dream interpretation places a very important role in this story, And dream interpretation was a developed science, Particularly in Egypt, and the other parts of Mesopotamia, but the Egyptians were known in the ancient world as dream interpreters.

解梦术在这个故事中有非常重要的作用，解梦术当时是发达的科学，尤其在埃及和美索不达米亚其它地区，但是在埃及人在古代就是以解梦人而被人所知。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The paintings hanging in these large rooms give a lesson in the history of art over hundreds of years.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

I'm not aware that there is such a thing as Southern art," Said Shelby, "At least not if you're defining it by technique.

我并没有意识到,还有以南方为流派的艺术",谢尔比说,"至少没有从艺术技巧方面区分的流派

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

She spent her later years turning her home and art collection into a beautiful museum for the public to enjoy.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

This is papier-mache, a fairly crude folk art. Anyone can do it.

而是纸型的，相当粗糙的民间艺术，任何人都能做。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

She spent most of her life working to change traditional beliefs about art,artists and a woman's professional role in society.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

The experience of art, the experience of poetry, and the reconciliation of conflicting needs results in a kind of catharsis, a "calm of mind, all passion spent".

艺术的体验，诗歌的体验，还有对相互冲突需求的协调,让人得到精神的发泄，得到“平静的精神，耗尽的热情“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The Cultural District is a fourteen block area of downtown that includes public spaces, art galleries and six major theaters.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

You could use language to describe music, talk about the--a musical language or art, or any communicative system, and there's actually nothing wrong with that.

也可用来描述音乐,即音乐语言,或是去描述艺术,或任何的交流系统,都是没问题的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

At the National Gallery of Art in Washington,D.C., you can see a colorful and expressive print called "Revolt on the Amistad."

VOA: special.2009.09.02

Reason, science, art is the capacity to transform nature by making it, imposing on it, a method that will produce like effects after similar consequences.

理性，科学，艺术是一种能力,是通过创造，施加影响力改变自然的能力，是一种在类似的结果发生后,产生类似结果的能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Their goal was to create a leading museum that would bring art and art education to the American people.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

And there's also I think a museum there, MAD or Museum of Art and Design and it's fairly new as well

我想那里也有博物馆，叫ＭＡＤ或者艺术设计博物馆，也是相当新的。

关于哥伦布环岛 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

One expert at the Art Institute of Chicago described ArtBabble as a giant leap forward for museums and for Web users.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

So, Juliet: "'tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.

朱丽叶说，只有你的名字才是我的仇敌,你即使不姓蒙太古，仍然是这样的一个你。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Now for the hacker edition, if you are feeling up to a bit more of a challenge you'll find that when you run the game, one it's not all that hard to use some ASCII art just make it a little fancier as the teaching fellow who implemented this solution did.

对于升级版，如果你能应付更大的,挑战，你会发现当你在玩这个游戏时，用一些字符画把它做得,比那些教学人员做的更有新意,并不是那么困难。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选