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Definition of classical in English: classicaladjective ˈklasɪk(ə)lˈklæsək(ə)l 1Relating to ancient Greek or Latin literature, art, or culture. （与）古希腊（或古拉丁）文学（或艺术、文化）（有关）的 古希腊神话。 古典拉丁文。 Example sentencesExamples - Diphtheria has probably existed since classical antiquity, but it was not identified as a specific disease until 1819.
- However, there were other Church Fathers who defended the value of studying classical literature and philosophy.
- His classicism is evident not only in his frequent quotations from classical literature, but often in his style.
- Throughout classical literature, the virtues of peace were extolled, and the evils of war denounced.
- The monks also kept alive classical culture and introduced the techniques of efficient and profitable land management.
- However, the corrosive effect of such exposure to classical culture must not be exaggerated.
- These too were part of the literary air he naturally breathed, and into his prose he would frequently work some turn of phrase taken from classical Latin literature.
- But the balance in the secondary schools of Europe was overwhelmingly in favour of classical culture.
- Feasting can be either an inclusive or an exclusive activity, as we know from many sources from classical antiquity and modern ethnography.
- Many cultures in the ancient and classical world built canals to extend the irrigation provided by rivers.
- Painters of all styles and schools, from the most playful and sensual rococo to the most severely neoclassical, routinely took their subjects from classical mythology and history.
- It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old.
- These common readings reveal that a large population of Florence would have been able to understand the Christian, classical, and literary themes in art.
- We take this foundation for granted, for the simple reason that the Greeks of the classical age seemed to have discovered so many things which today matter a great deal.
- It acted as a conduit for the recovery of much of the learning of classical culture.
- As a young man, Erasmus believed that northern Europeans knew nothing of classical antiquity - his career sought to remedy this barbarism.
- Moreover, carrying on with the classical literary order was a means of mitigating the downturn in Roman affairs since the days of the ancients.
- He used ancient, classical, and contemporary collections of travel narratives, which were closest in scholarly method to English antiquarianism.
- He teaches Greek and Latin at all levels, along with courses in classical mythology and Greek literature and culture.
- Some chiefs probably visited Rome itself and thus had contact with classical culture.
Synonyms ancient Greek, Grecian, Hellenic, Attic Latin, ancient Roman - 1.1 (of art or architecture) influenced by ancient Greek or Roman forms or principles.
（艺术，建筑）受古希腊（或罗马）风格（或原则）影响的 the classical house at Buscot Park Example sentencesExamples - Here, his great palace imitated and even incorporated examples of late classical art and architecture.
- The museum now plans to find a way to display the Heroon of Trysa; one of the major monuments of classical art, it remains in storage.
- At the assembly, as also in other events, those in senior classes can perform only classical art forms and dramas.
- I'd been traveling across Greece and Turkey with a small group of college students, studying Byzantine and classical art and architecture.
- 18th century artists and theorists were in a position to take a new look at classical art.
- No better model will be found to illustrate the principles of classical interior architecture.
- He teaches and writes regularly on classical architecture and design.
- It went to prove that if the classical art forms were losing out to modern times, the fault was with the audience and not with the art.
- During this time he arrived at his synthesis of forms inspired by such divergent sources as classical sculpture, folk art and popular theater.
- He has been inspired by the French tapestries of the medieval period, as well as classical architecture and exotic animals.
- It is avowedly anti-modernist, employing the language of classical art and architecture to lure his audience in before hitting them with something unexpectedly punchy.
- An inclination toward classical art and, most likely, the residual Protestantism of her Canadian-Scottish heritage were also evident.
- When the military returned to power in 1976, it promoted classical art forms.
- The irony is that the official programme is not particularly elitist, either in terms of classical art forms or cutting-edge postmodernism.
- In An Allegory, for example, the composition invokes the sublime order of classical art.
- His asymmetries make the kind of gratifying sense that symmetry makes in classical art.
- Her profile recalls Greek classical sculpture as well as fashion mannequins of the period.
- An educational program was set up, and promising youth were sent on government-sponsored tours of Europe to learn about classical art and architecture.
- These grandly conceived spaces, together with the smaller ancillary rooms, constituted an extraordinary museum of classical art.
- The building has a significant presence at the entrance to the campus and evokes the sense of order and balance characteristic of classical architecture.
Synonyms simple, pure, restrained, plain, austere well proportioned, harmonious, balanced, symmetrical, elegant, aesthetic Literature Augustan
2Representing an exemplary standard within a traditional and long-established form or style. （尤指艺术形式）标准的；传统的，经典的 古典拉丁文。 Example sentencesExamples - The album merges sounds and influences from East and West, and stretches the boundaries of musical experimentation by fusing traditional folk songs and classical styles with the popular.
- This approach captures the essence of the classical liberal tradition concerning the rule of law and individualism, while avoiding some of its own ambiguities.
- In English, it has become synonymous with ballet danced in the grand classical style (think rows of identical ballerinas in white tutus).
- The traditional classical concert establishes a whole set of formal relationships before even a note has sounded.
- But they were working within a classical philosophical tradition, reshaping it and making it modern.
- But one thing is clear: The mood is frivolous, with most designers steering clear of traditional and classical styles and opting instead for adventure.
- This piece is also the furthest from the traditional style of classical ballet and offers a good reflection of the state of contemporary ballet.
- The beauty center also provides foot massage and traditional Thai massage in a classical style of atmosphere.
- I improvise and sing within the classical tradition.
- The show is a massive concert featuring a variety of different dance styles including tap, classical ballet, modern jazz and national character.
- The traditional repertoire of most classical dance styles is strongly based on the stories and characteristics surrounding divinity in Hinduism.
- The play is a unique piece bringing together elements of Australian mythology and culture - a far cry from the traditional, classical European-based ballets.
- In 1998 she started English Youth Ballet to give young dancers outside London an opportunity to perform classical ballet within a professional setting.
- His work - in the traditional, classical style of the sonata form - is so in structure, but not overtly so in its music.
- They fall squarely within the tradition of classical word problems and are designed for use in a traditional calculus course.
- It is within such a classical critical tradition of a crisis of ideology that the declining confrontations of labor and capital has brought more radical consequences.
- The concert started in full-on classical style, before being broken up by a small foray into traditional Irish songs.
- In 2005 an average of three concerts per month were held in the cathedral providing mainly classical and traditional Irish music.
- A design vocabulary for high buildings was well established within the classical tradition.
- These are imaginary landscapes, but within the rich classical Western landscape tradition.
Synonyms traditional, long-established serious, highbrow, heavyweight symphonic, concert informal heavy - 2.1 Relating to the first significant period of an area of study.
某一研究领域最初重要时期的；经典的 古典文学艺术教育。 Example sentencesExamples - Did you feel like you were coming in at the last moment of the classical Hollywood period?
- The classical period had matured and was ripe for the transition to the molecular era.
- As was common throughout the classical period of Indian mathematics, members of the family acted as teachers to other family members.
- This is related to the fact that the period of classical cinema has ended.
- Within the field of religion or area studies, there is a difference between emphases in the classical or modern period.
- 2.2Physics Relating to or based upon concepts and theories which preceded the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics; Newtonian.
〔物理〕相对论和量子力学理论前的概念、理论的；牛顿学说的；古典力学的 古典物理学，经典物理学。 Example sentencesExamples - Experimental data was accumulating throughout Europe that could not be reconciled with the established formulae of Newtonian classical physics.
- Like all his contemporaries, Hawking was brought up, as a scientist, on the classical ideas of Newton and on relativity theory and quantum physics in their original forms.
- In classical relativity theory, space-time is a four-dimensional construction wherein the three dimensions of space and one dimension of time are welded together.
- Newton's Law of Gravitation was the beginning of classical field theory.
- The second term you may recognize to be the kinetic energy of classical Newtonian physics.
OriginLate 16th century (in the sense 'outstanding of its kind'): from Latin classicus 'belonging to a class' (see classic) + -al. Definition of classical in US English: classicaladjectiveˈklasək(ə)lˈklæsək(ə)l 1Relating to ancient Greek or Latin literature, art, or culture. （与）古希腊（或古拉丁）文学（或艺术、文化）（有关）的 古希腊神话。 Example sentencesExamples - However, there were other Church Fathers who defended the value of studying classical literature and philosophy.
- Painters of all styles and schools, from the most playful and sensual rococo to the most severely neoclassical, routinely took their subjects from classical mythology and history.
- Throughout classical literature, the virtues of peace were extolled, and the evils of war denounced.
- His classicism is evident not only in his frequent quotations from classical literature, but often in his style.
- As a young man, Erasmus believed that northern Europeans knew nothing of classical antiquity - his career sought to remedy this barbarism.
- It acted as a conduit for the recovery of much of the learning of classical culture.
- These common readings reveal that a large population of Florence would have been able to understand the Christian, classical, and literary themes in art.
- Feasting can be either an inclusive or an exclusive activity, as we know from many sources from classical antiquity and modern ethnography.
- But the balance in the secondary schools of Europe was overwhelmingly in favour of classical culture.
- Diphtheria has probably existed since classical antiquity, but it was not identified as a specific disease until 1819.
- It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old.
- He used ancient, classical, and contemporary collections of travel narratives, which were closest in scholarly method to English antiquarianism.
- These too were part of the literary air he naturally breathed, and into his prose he would frequently work some turn of phrase taken from classical Latin literature.
- Many cultures in the ancient and classical world built canals to extend the irrigation provided by rivers.
- We take this foundation for granted, for the simple reason that the Greeks of the classical age seemed to have discovered so many things which today matter a great deal.
- He teaches Greek and Latin at all levels, along with courses in classical mythology and Greek literature and culture.
- However, the corrosive effect of such exposure to classical culture must not be exaggerated.
- Some chiefs probably visited Rome itself and thus had contact with classical culture.
- The monks also kept alive classical culture and introduced the techniques of efficient and profitable land management.
- Moreover, carrying on with the classical literary order was a means of mitigating the downturn in Roman affairs since the days of the ancients.
Synonyms ancient greek, grecian, hellenic, attic - 1.1 (of art or architecture) influenced by ancient Greek or Roman forms or principles.
（艺术，建筑）受古希腊（或罗马）风格（或原则）影响的 Example sentencesExamples - Here, his great palace imitated and even incorporated examples of late classical art and architecture.
- The irony is that the official programme is not particularly elitist, either in terms of classical art forms or cutting-edge postmodernism.
- It is avowedly anti-modernist, employing the language of classical art and architecture to lure his audience in before hitting them with something unexpectedly punchy.
- During this time he arrived at his synthesis of forms inspired by such divergent sources as classical sculpture, folk art and popular theater.
- These grandly conceived spaces, together with the smaller ancillary rooms, constituted an extraordinary museum of classical art.
- In An Allegory, for example, the composition invokes the sublime order of classical art.
- He has been inspired by the French tapestries of the medieval period, as well as classical architecture and exotic animals.
- No better model will be found to illustrate the principles of classical interior architecture.
- An inclination toward classical art and, most likely, the residual Protestantism of her Canadian-Scottish heritage were also evident.
- At the assembly, as also in other events, those in senior classes can perform only classical art forms and dramas.
- An educational program was set up, and promising youth were sent on government-sponsored tours of Europe to learn about classical art and architecture.
- He teaches and writes regularly on classical architecture and design.
- 18th century artists and theorists were in a position to take a new look at classical art.
- When the military returned to power in 1976, it promoted classical art forms.
- It went to prove that if the classical art forms were losing out to modern times, the fault was with the audience and not with the art.
- The museum now plans to find a way to display the Heroon of Trysa; one of the major monuments of classical art, it remains in storage.
- The building has a significant presence at the entrance to the campus and evokes the sense of order and balance characteristic of classical architecture.
- I'd been traveling across Greece and Turkey with a small group of college students, studying Byzantine and classical art and architecture.
- His asymmetries make the kind of gratifying sense that symmetry makes in classical art.
- Her profile recalls Greek classical sculpture as well as fashion mannequins of the period.
Synonyms simple, pure, restrained, plain, austere
2(typically of a form of art) regarded as representing an exemplary standard; traditional and long-established in form or style. （尤指艺术形式）标准的；传统的，经典的 传统芭蕾。 Example sentencesExamples - The show is a massive concert featuring a variety of different dance styles including tap, classical ballet, modern jazz and national character.
- His work - in the traditional, classical style of the sonata form - is so in structure, but not overtly so in its music.
- This piece is also the furthest from the traditional style of classical ballet and offers a good reflection of the state of contemporary ballet.
- In English, it has become synonymous with ballet danced in the grand classical style (think rows of identical ballerinas in white tutus).
- A design vocabulary for high buildings was well established within the classical tradition.
- In 1998 she started English Youth Ballet to give young dancers outside London an opportunity to perform classical ballet within a professional setting.
- The concert started in full-on classical style, before being broken up by a small foray into traditional Irish songs.
- The traditional classical concert establishes a whole set of formal relationships before even a note has sounded.
- The album merges sounds and influences from East and West, and stretches the boundaries of musical experimentation by fusing traditional folk songs and classical styles with the popular.
- These are imaginary landscapes, but within the rich classical Western landscape tradition.
- The traditional repertoire of most classical dance styles is strongly based on the stories and characteristics surrounding divinity in Hinduism.
- I improvise and sing within the classical tradition.
- But they were working within a classical philosophical tradition, reshaping it and making it modern.
- They fall squarely within the tradition of classical word problems and are designed for use in a traditional calculus course.
- It is within such a classical critical tradition of a crisis of ideology that the declining confrontations of labor and capital has brought more radical consequences.
- The beauty center also provides foot massage and traditional Thai massage in a classical style of atmosphere.
- But one thing is clear: The mood is frivolous, with most designers steering clear of traditional and classical styles and opting instead for adventure.
- This approach captures the essence of the classical liberal tradition concerning the rule of law and individualism, while avoiding some of its own ambiguities.
- The play is a unique piece bringing together elements of Australian mythology and culture - a far cry from the traditional, classical European-based ballets.
- In 2005 an average of three concerts per month were held in the cathedral providing mainly classical and traditional Irish music.
Synonyms traditional, long-established - 2.1 Relating to the first significant period of an area of study.
某一研究领域最初重要时期的；经典的 古典文学艺术教育。 Example sentencesExamples - Within the field of religion or area studies, there is a difference between emphases in the classical or modern period.
- Did you feel like you were coming in at the last moment of the classical Hollywood period?
- The classical period had matured and was ripe for the transition to the molecular era.
- As was common throughout the classical period of Indian mathematics, members of the family acted as teachers to other family members.
- This is related to the fact that the period of classical cinema has ended.
- 2.2Physics Relating to or based upon concepts and theories which preceded the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics; Newtonian.
〔物理〕相对论和量子力学理论前的概念、理论的；牛顿学说的；古典力学的 古典物理学，经典物理学。 Example sentencesExamples - Newton's Law of Gravitation was the beginning of classical field theory.
- Experimental data was accumulating throughout Europe that could not be reconciled with the established formulae of Newtonian classical physics.
- The second term you may recognize to be the kinetic energy of classical Newtonian physics.
- In classical relativity theory, space-time is a four-dimensional construction wherein the three dimensions of space and one dimension of time are welded together.
- Like all his contemporaries, Hawking was brought up, as a scientist, on the classical ideas of Newton and on relativity theory and quantum physics in their original forms.
OriginLate 16th century (in the sense ‘outstanding of its kind’): from Latin classicus ‘belonging to a class’ (see classic) + -al. |