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唯主义，置身于华堂上，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更加正式成熟，这类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那种唯主义——对自己潜力极度敏感人，他再也无法被满足，疯狂追求低级而短暂欢愉。

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.

他也因其服装奢华而臭名昭著， 但与当时审家不同， 他们穿着艺术漫不经心衣服， 他喜欢夸张色彩。