Was he at heart an aesthete, happiest making music in beautiful buildings among works of art?

从本质上讲他是不是一个唯美主义者，置身于华美的厅堂上，徜徉于艺术珍品之中，摆弄音乐，陶醉无比？

They were artisans and aesthetes: scientists of a sort that gradually ceased to exist as the natural sciences grew more formal and mature.

随着自然科学发展得式成，科学家渐渐不存在了。

He turned into what Kierkegaard would call the aesthete — a man who has become hypersensitive to his potential, settling for nothing and only chasing bass pleasures and the momentarily interesting.

他变成了克尔凯郭尔所说的那种唯美主义者——一个对自己潜力极度敏感的人，他再也无法被满足，疯狂追求低级而短暂的欢愉。

He was notorious also for the extravagance of his costume, but, unlike the aesthetes of that day, who clothed themselves with artistic carelessness, he had a taste for outrageous colours.

他也因其服装的奢华而臭名昭著， 但与当时的审美家不同， 他们穿着艺术漫不经心的衣服， 他喜欢夸张的色彩。