审美疲劳

English translation: aesthetic fatigue

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Chinese term or phrase:	审美疲劳
English translation:	aesthetic fatigue
Entered by:	Jason Ma

06:18 Mar 14, 2007

Chinese to English translations [PRO]
Science - Other / physics

Chinese term or phrase: 审美疲劳

Context:
在电影《手机》中
“老夫老妻的在同一张床上睡了20几年了。感觉有点审美疲劳”

Dear colleagues, how to translate this phrase without losing its exact indication.

Jason Ma KudoZ activity Questions: 216 (none open) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 507 China
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aesthetic fatigue

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Shang
China
Local time: 03:20

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aesthetic fatigue

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aesthetic fatigue

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Shang
China
Local time: 03:20
Native speaker of: Chinese
PRO pts in category: 88

Grading comment

Thanks, Shang and Shaunna.

6 hrs confidence:

Just to support Shang's answer

Explanation:
I had some intereting finding by searching this term. Too much to fit into the comments, so I'll just share it here. NOT FOR POINTS:

Looks like "aesthetic fatigue" is used a lot already. I guess 审美疲劳 in 手机 just brought this Chinese translation of "aesthetic fatigue" into China.

This one is from a review of a book published by Duke University Press in 1996:
Gracyk worries that rock music may become a victim of what he labels the natural cycle of invention, change, and obsolescence. "Rock may well be reaching the point of [b]aesthetic fatigue[/b]," he speculates (206).
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2822/is_3_23/ai_64190...

This one in particular is about 手机：
“The most popular film in China last year, "Shouji (Cellphone)", centered on a man who cleverly used his cellphone to shield his lovers from his wife. The film introduced the phrase "aesthetic fatigue," which describes a culture of too many overripe relationships. The pace is often so intense that the passion burns out quickly; too many relationships are based on sex alone, Chinese complain.”
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1215/p01s04-woap.html?s=spworl...

More:
“Lee points out that in this, Kubler is making a claim for the exhaustion of new discoveries in art, or “aesthetic fatigue”; in other words, the end of the avant-garde.”
http://www.artcritical.com/bookcritical/AFchronophobia.htm

And much more:
http://www.google.com/search?q="aesthetic fatigue"&hl=en&cli...

Shaunna (X)
United States
Local time: 15:20
Native speaker of:

English,

Chinese
PRO pts in category: 4

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