the grotesque
collocation怪诞艺术风格（或怪诞作品的总称）
The playwright uses the grotesque to expose the absurdity of war.
这位剧作家运用怪诞风格来揭露战争的荒诞。
怪诞装饰风格；奇异造型
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怪诞装饰风格；奇异造型
A style of art or ornamentation that mixes fanciful or incongruous human, animal, and plant forms.
The museum’s new exhibition features a 16th-century grotesque from Italy.
博物馆的新展览展出了一件16世纪意大利的奇异装饰画。
一种装饰风格,以奇异的交织形式组合为特征
A style of ornamentation characterized by fanciful combinations of intertwined forms.
(艺术)以人与动物部位不合逻辑地交织植物为特征的
art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants
任何怪诞的事物
Anything grotesque.
无衬线字体
A sans serif typeface.
Renaissance artists often incorporated grotesques into their frescoes.
文艺复兴时期的艺术家经常将奇异混合图案融入壁画中。
The architect insisted on adding a grotesque above the main entrance.
建筑师坚持在主入口上方添加一个奇异装饰。
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怪诞艺术风格（或怪诞作品的总称）
The playwright uses the grotesque to expose the absurdity of war.
这位剧作家运用怪诞风格来揭露战争的荒诞。
滴水嘴兽与怪诞雕像（常见于哥特式建筑）
The cathedral's gargoyles and grotesques have survived for centuries.
这座大教堂的滴水嘴兽与怪诞雕像已经留存了几个世纪。
装饰性怪诞图案（以奇异人兽植物纹样为特色）
Renaissance interiors were often decorated with ornamental grotesques.
文艺复兴时期的室内常常装饰着怪诞图案。
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把 grotesque 联想成 'grotto(洞穴)+esque'，想象洞穴壁画上人兽与植物交缠的怪诞图案——这就是 grotesque 怪诞装饰风格。
语域：formal 常见场景：art history、literary criticism、typography 作为名词，grotesque 的几个含义（怪诞装饰、怪异形象、无衬线字体）常见于艺术、文学和字体设计等较正式或专业的语境，因此整体语体偏正式。日常口语中很少单用此名词，多使用形容词形式。
These words share the final /ɛsk/ sound: desk, picturesque, burlesque, arabesque. Be careful with lookalikes: opaque and unique end in -que but are pronounced /oʊˈpeɪk/ and /juˈniːk/, not /ɛsk/.
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