In the crowd a thief abstracted my purse from my pocket. 在人群中小偷从我的囗袋偷走了钱包。
Swiss artist who combined his expert use of line and color and his theories of abstract art to produce works of whimsy and innocence. 克勒,保罗1879-1940瑞士画家。他把对线系和色彩的熟练运用和其关于抽象艺术的理论结合起来创造出了古怪而单纯的作品
Romanian-born sculptor who settled in Paris in1904. He broke sharply with the realist tradition, making abstract sculptures, chiefly in metal and stone, of great geometric simplicity. 布兰诺西,康斯坦丁1876-1957罗马尼亚裔雕刻家,于1904年定居于巴黎。他鲜明地打破现实主义传统,主要用金属和石头为材料创作了极简单明快的几何造型的抽象雕塑
abstracted
[ adj ] lost in thought; showing preoccupation <adj.all> an absent starean absentminded professor the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence
Abstract \Ab*stract"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Abstracted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Abstracting}.] [See {Abstract}, a.] 1. To withdraw; to separate; to take away.
He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices. --Sir W. Scott.
2. To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects.
The young stranger had been abstracted and silent. --Blackw. Mag.
3. To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute. --Whately.
4. To epitomize; to abridge. --Franklin.
5. To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.
Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness. --W. Black.
6. (Chem.) To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used.
Abstracted \Ab*stract"ed\, a. 1. Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.
The evil abstracted stood from his own evil. --Milton.
4. Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind. ``An abstracted scholar.'' --Johnson.
'Mr Benjamin Allen fell fast asleep: while Mr Bob Sawyer abstracted his thoughts from wordly matters by the ingenious process of carving his name on the seat of the pew.'
Particularly impressive are the large folding screens, with their austere and rhythmic landscape imagery set against abstracted gold leaf backgrounds.
So we follow him in his radical simplification of the image, abstracted almost to the point of abstraction.
This article is abstracted from his report on British defense policy, "Less Than Opulence: the Conservatives and Defense," published recently by the London-based Institute for European Defense and Strategic Studies.
Autumn by Laurens, a large reclining figure of 1948, is an actively voluptuous and surreal composition of abstracted fruit-like forms, writhing and thrusting. Venus?