| 单词 | useful arts |
| 释义 | > as lemmasuseful arts useful arts n. now chiefly historical = industrial arts n. at industrial adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre v. xxx. 283 As there is gold amongst the Turks there will be drosse amongst the Christians, I mean some who for base gain will betray the mysteries of our usefull arts unto them. 1787 E. A. W. von Zimmermann Polit. Surv. Europe Pref. iii A new branch of scientific knowledge, viz. technology, or the theory and accurate description of useful arts and manufactures, was much cultivated in Germany. 1863 W. H. Brewer Let. 13 Aug. in Up & down Calif. (2003) 430 The Morrill Land Fund, donated by Congress to schools for the advancement of agriculture and the useful arts. 1991 Jrnl. Design Hist. 4 220/2 Unlike some continental academies in the eighteenth century.., the Royal Academy was not interested in the useful arts, and was indeed even hostile towards them. < as lemmas |
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