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2006TEXT4 2011/6/14Many things make people think that artists are weird. 许多东西使人们认为 艺术家 是荒诞的许多原因使得人们认为艺术家是荒诞的weird ADJ oft it v-link ADJ to-inf/-ing If you describe something or someone as weird, you mean that they are strange. (INFORMAL) Hes different. Hes weird... Drugs can make you do all kinds of weird things... It must be really weird to be rich... 很多事情使人们认为艺术家是怪人形容词的名词化But the weirdest may be this: artists’only job is to explore emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel bad但是最荒诞的可能是： 艺术家的仅有的工作是 探索情感， 并且他们选择集中于这些东西 他们感到不好的但是最荒诞的事情可能是：艺术家仅有的工作就是探索情感，并且他们选择集中于不好的情感上 yet 1ADV usu with brd-neg, ADV with v, ADV group You use yet in negative statements to indicate that something has not happened up to the present time, although it probably will happen. You can also use yet in questions to ask if something has happened up to the present time. In British English the simple past tense is not normally used with this meaning of `yet. They havent finished yet... No decision has yet been made... She hasnt yet set a date for her marriage... `Has the murderer been caught?—`Not yet.... Have you met my husband yet?... Hammer-throwing for women is not yet a major event. 2 ADV usu with brd-neg, ADV with v, ADV group You use yet with a negative statement when you are talking about the past, to report something that was not the case then, although it became the case later. There was so much that Sam didnt know yet... He had asked around and learned that Billy was not yet here. 3 ADV with brd-neg, ADV with v If you say that something should not or cannot be done yet, you mean that it should not or cannot be done now, although it will have to be done at a later time. Dont get up yet... The hostages cannot go home just yet... We should not yet abandon this option for the disposal of highly radioactive waste. 4 ADV n ADV, ADV adv/-ed, ADV after superl You use yet after a superlative to indicate, for example, that something is the worst or the best of its kind up to t