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  3. Aesthetics is broader in scope than the philosophy of art, which comprises one of its branches, It deals not only with the natur

Aesthetics is broader in scope than the philosophy of art, which comprises one of its branches, It deals not only with the natur

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问题      Aesthetics is broader in scope than the philosophy of art, which comprises one of its branches, It deals not only with the nature and value of the arts but also with those responses to natural objects that find expression in the language of the beautiful and the ugly. 61)A problem is encountered at the outset, however, for terms such as beautiful and ugly seem too vague in their application and too subjective in their meaning to divide the world successfully into those things that do, end those that do not, exemplify them. Almost anything might be seen as beautiful by someone or from some point of view; and different people apply the word to quite disparate objects for reasons that often seem to have little or nothing in common. It may be that there is some single underlying belief that motivates all of their judgments. 62)It may also be, however, that the term beautiful has no sense except as the expression of an attitude, which is in turn attached by different people to quite different states of affairs.
     63)Moreover, in spite of the emphasis laid by philosophers on the terms beautiful and ugly, it is far from evident that they are the most important or most useful either in the discussion and criticism of art or in the description of that which appeals to us in nature To convey what is significant in a poem we might use such terms as ironical, moving, expressive, balanced, and harmonious. Likewise, in describing a favorite stretch of countryside, we may find more use for peaceful, soft, atmospheric, harsh, and evocative, than for beautiful. 64)The least that should be said is that beautiful belongs to a class of terms from which it has been chosen as much for convenience’s sake as for any sense that it captures what is distinctive of the class.
     At the same time, there seems to Be no clear way of delimiting the class in question — not at least in advance of theory. 65)Aesthetics must therefore cast its net more widely than the study either of beauty or of other aesthetic concepts if it is to discover the principles whereby it is to be defined. We are at once returned, therefore, to the vexing question or subject matter: What should a philosopher study in order to understand such ideas as beauty and taste?
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答案然而，也许“美丽”这个字眼除了表达一种态度以外，没有什么意义。因此，不同的人把这种态度加在了许许多多不同的事物上。
解析 本题属于二重从句。however仍看作插入语．that后的部分为整个句子的表语从句，其中which引导一个从句作attitude的非限制性定语．因为结构较为复杂，翻译时也应采用拆译法才能将句意疏通。在词汇方面，考生要注意in turn指的是“因而，因此”，表示的是一种结果。此外，注意准确翻译出作者使用的语气。
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