| 释义 |
‖ nature morte|natyr mɔrt|
[Fr.]
= still life. Also transf.
1921R. Fry Let. 14 Dec. (1972) II. 518 He's bought..one superb nature morte, and he's two lovely Renoirs. 1923A. Huxley Antic Hay xvi. 225 Her face, painted in two tones of red, white, green, blue and black, is the most tasteful of nature-mortes. 1938L. Durrell Let. in Spirit of Place (1969) 53 He hasn't painted a stroke..not a bloody nature-morte even; and when he admits it he looks rather nature-morte himself. 1947Horizon Jan. 17 The fixed elements of cubist nature-morte came to a new life. 1960Times 19 Jan. 13/2 By the religious-minded these nature morte passages can be interpreted as a humble hymn to the Creator. 1963M. McCarthy Group vi. 123 Pale and lifeless..a veritable nature morte. 1970Oxf. Compan. Art 1096/2 Dutch still-leven, which..denotes simply a motionless (still) aspect of nature (leven){ddd}means exactly the same as the French term nature morte, which dates from the 18th c. |