简单释义：

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n. 艺人；大师；美术家(如画家,雕塑家等)

网络 艺术家；依艺人；美工

变形：

复数：artists  

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完整释义：

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n.

1.美术家(如画家,雕塑家等)
2.艺术家(如音乐家,舞蹈家等);艺人
3.艺术家(如剧作家,作曲家等)
4.能手,大师

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例句：

1. It is a love story about a man with a genetic disorder that causes him to time travel unpredictably, and about his wife, an artist.
   这部电影讲述了一个由于遗传病而经常不可预知的在时间中穿梭的男子和他的艺术家妻子的爱情故事。

2. FOR professional war artist Matthew Cook, being asked to do sketches on the set of Atonement was, to say the least, a novel experience.
   对于职业战争画家MatthewCook来讲，被邀请前往赎罪的拍摄场地写生，退一步说，也是也新颖的体验。

3. A clown weights 60 lb more than a trapeze artist. The trapeze artist weighs two thirds as much as the clown. How much does each weigh?
   一个小丑比一个荡秋千演员重60磅。荡秋千演员的体重是小丑的三分之二。两人各自的体重是多少？

4. I hate formalism, because formalism implies a death of the subject and the subject is the only reason to be an artist.
   我恨形式主义，因为形式主义意味着主题的死亡，而主题是做艺术家的唯一理由。

5. The funny fact is that this artist actually tried to dress a cat in one of his costumes but failed, as the animal scratched him.
   最有意思的是，这位艺术家实际上想亲自为一只猫装备上铠甲，不过失败了，因为猫咪不停地挠他。

6. Modernism, with its macho ideal of the artist, seems to have provided a particularly hostile environment.
   而追求阳刚的现代主义似乎为女性作家提供了尤其不利的土壤。

7. Explaining how to design a green complex is much like an artist trying to explain how to paint a portrait.
   解释来如何设计果岭及周边就很像一位艺术家试图讲解怎么来画肖像画。

8. Art is innate in the artist, like an instinct that seizes and makes a tool out of a human being.
   艺术是（那个艺术家）内在的东西，就象是（那种领悟和制造人类原本不知的工具的）本能。