Virtuoso

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n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    藝術愛好者;古董收藏家

          2.    藝術大師;音樂名手



a. (形容詞 adjective)



          1.    藝術愛好者(或鑑賞家)的;行家裡手的





The Columbia Guide to Standard American English



virtuoso (n.) 

   

has two plurals: virtuosos and virtuosi.





Cate Blanchett: Queen of the screen (1)



Of course, Blanchett gave a virtuoso – if extraordinarily mannered – performance as Hepburn opposite Leonardo DiCaprio's Howard Hughes in Scorsese's The Aviator. She had the Hepburn hauteur and that famous drawling East Coast voice down perfectly. The trick to portraying a real-life character like Hepburn, she has suggested, is to research exhaustively: study the voice and mannerisms, watch the old interviews, read the books.





   　

Suzanne's interest in Chinese marionettes links Hou's Red Balloon (as well as the original) to his 1992 masterpiece, The Puppetmaster. The mode can be off-handedly self-reflexive, 

as when 

Hou's camera ponders the virtuosity of two movers maneuvering a piano up an impossibly narrow stairway, 

or 

in the melancholy juxtaposition of [archaic 8mm home movies] with [Suzanne's voiceover characterizations].









　

Everything comes together in a virtuoso scene 

that Rohmer [stages]



at a wedding party. Magali is present, reluctantly, and so are the men, and of course all three misunderstand almost everything that happens. Since we like Gerald (Alain Libolt), the guy who answered the personal ad, 



and think Etienne is a twerp,【口】無用之人;笨蛋;討厭傢伙



we know who we're cheering for, but Rohmer creates quiet suspense by elegantly choreographing the movements at the party--who is seen, and when, and why, and in what context--



until finally a [smile] and a [nod] of approval 

are 

[ex]changed over a glass of wine, 



and we feel like cheering. (The approval is of the wine, not the characters, but from it all else will follow.) 



twerp

–noun Slang. 

an insignificant 

or 

despicable fellow: Her father thinks her boyfriend is just a twerp.  



Also, twirp.





chiaroscuro anamorphic

collage

tableaux silhouette



virtuoso 

cognoscente dilettante

Threnody



brogue 

rogue schmuck curmudgeon cad callow

sourpuss 

sullen dour

scowl His wife [scowled] when he came home late again.

Dingy