The question of whether our government should promote science and technology or the liberal arts in higher education isn't an either/or proposition(命题),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月阅读原文
The liberal arts in higher education help enrich students' spiritual life
出自-2014年6月阅读原文
Simultaneously, the liberal arts become more important than ever.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
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艺术（品）；美术
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.
此类艺术品在西方的首次展览
...contemporary and modern American art.
近现代美洲艺术
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（作为活动或教学科目的）美术
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.
甘愿独自沉浸于绘画中的画家
...Farnham College of Art and Design.
法纳姆美术设计学院
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艺术（活动）（如音乐、绘画、文学、电影、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.
叶卡捷琳娜大帝赞助过各种艺术创作和科学研究。
...the Arts Council of Great Britain.
大不列颠艺术委员会
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人文学科;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.
人文和社会科学毕业生
...the Faculty of Arts.
文学院
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（用于剧院或电影院的名称中）上演艺术作品的，艺术的
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.
剑桥艺术影院
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技术；技艺；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.
钓鱼是一门技术。
...the unscientific arts of seduction and romance.
勾引异性和谈情说爱的不科学的技巧
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（be的现在式单数第二人称形式，过时用法）
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.
父亲，我知道您无时无刻不在关心着我。