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词汇 inanimate
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Definition of inanimate in English:

inanimate

adjective ɪnˈanɪmətɪnˈænəmət
  • 1Not alive.

    inanimate objects like stones

    像石头那样无生命的物体。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The viruses associated with the cold and flu can survive on inanimate objects and skin for up to three hours.
    • I personally think it's the people who pull the triggers that kill people, guns are just inanimate objects, machines that can only work with a person present.
    • One important distinction within the natural world is found in the fact that some natural substances are alive and others inanimate.
    • The dolls are inanimate objects given life and the creation of more of them lets the artists give flesh to the worries of the audience.
    • When spirits inhabit inanimate objects, they cease being inanimate.
    • First, it's a document, a mighty one, but still an inanimate object.
    • I know it's not normal to shout and swear at the television - it is, after all, an inanimate object - but that is what I do.
    • In fact I have heard that good chess masters now study computer games and learn new strategies from those inanimate models.
    • And third, does not anthropomorphism require the transposition of human qualities onto an inanimate object?
    • Wind chill does not affect inanimate objects, nor does it affect people who are sheltered from the wind.
    • The national poll to choose a flower for each county mirrors the US, where each state lays claims to a series of inanimate objects as their own.
    • Even when we are a little the worse for wear through drink, our natural inclination to apologise to pets and inanimate objects comes to the fore.
    • Those of you who have visited my photoblog may think that my passion in photography lies in capturing scenery, landscapes and inanimate objects.
    • There may also be inappropriate use of toys, obsessive spinning of objects or attachment to inanimate objects.
    • But the single biggest cause of snowmobiling casualties are inanimate objects.
    • All of God's creation, animate and inanimate, reflected God's generosity toward his creatures and evoked an outpouring of praise and thanks.
    • The word ‘article’ means something inanimate which is not and never has been alive.
    • I still have occasional empathy with inanimate objects.
    • One of the other themes that run through your work is anthropomorphic or inanimate objects that come to life in some way.
    • Hallucinatory content can include inanimate objects, people, animals, plants and bunches of flowers, trees, and complete scenes.
    1. 1.1 Showing no sign of life; lifeless.
      无生命迹象的,无生气的,无精打采的
      he was completely inanimate and it was difficult to see if he was breathing

      他毫无生命迹象,难以看出他是否还在呼吸。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • In both photographs the inanimate face is shown in three-quarter profile facing right against a blank background.
      • His limbs were inanimate, leaving motion only to his prickly black hair dancing to the silent hum of the ocean.
      • And still the numbers and names of the dead ‘hammer through his mind, inanimate as nails’.
      Synonyms
      lifeless, insentient, insensate, without life, inert, motionless
      inorganic, non-organic, mineral
      dead, defunct, extinct
      rare exanimate, abiotic

Derivatives

  • inanimately

  • adverb
    • Relentlessly, she stared at the phone sitting inanimately on her desk, willing it to ring because there was no way she'd sacrifice her own pride and call Chris herself.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • My eyes wandered to the phone sitting inanimately, as it should have been, on my nightstand right beside my picture frame, which held a collage of pictures from over the years.
      • Raine yelped in pain as her body hit the wall like a rag-doll, falling to the ground inanimately.
      • The two men had stood there for what must have been an hour, staring inanimately at the carcass that lay before them.
      • He proceeded to remain there, almost inanimately, for the whole of the class.
  • inanimation

  • noun -ˈmeɪʃ(ə)n

Origin

Late Middle English: from late Latin inanimatus 'lifeless', from in- 'not' + animatus (see animate).

Definition of inanimate in US English:

inanimate

adjectiveinˈanəmətɪnˈænəmət
  • 1Not alive, especially not in the manner of animals and humans.

    无生命的(尤指不似动物和人那样具有生命的)

    inanimate objects like stones

    像石头那样无生命的物体。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • And third, does not anthropomorphism require the transposition of human qualities onto an inanimate object?
    • I personally think it's the people who pull the triggers that kill people, guns are just inanimate objects, machines that can only work with a person present.
    • But the single biggest cause of snowmobiling casualties are inanimate objects.
    • All of God's creation, animate and inanimate, reflected God's generosity toward his creatures and evoked an outpouring of praise and thanks.
    • There may also be inappropriate use of toys, obsessive spinning of objects or attachment to inanimate objects.
    • Those of you who have visited my photoblog may think that my passion in photography lies in capturing scenery, landscapes and inanimate objects.
    • Hallucinatory content can include inanimate objects, people, animals, plants and bunches of flowers, trees, and complete scenes.
    • I know it's not normal to shout and swear at the television - it is, after all, an inanimate object - but that is what I do.
    • The dolls are inanimate objects given life and the creation of more of them lets the artists give flesh to the worries of the audience.
    • The viruses associated with the cold and flu can survive on inanimate objects and skin for up to three hours.
    • The national poll to choose a flower for each county mirrors the US, where each state lays claims to a series of inanimate objects as their own.
    • I still have occasional empathy with inanimate objects.
    • Even when we are a little the worse for wear through drink, our natural inclination to apologise to pets and inanimate objects comes to the fore.
    • When spirits inhabit inanimate objects, they cease being inanimate.
    • One important distinction within the natural world is found in the fact that some natural substances are alive and others inanimate.
    • Wind chill does not affect inanimate objects, nor does it affect people who are sheltered from the wind.
    • First, it's a document, a mighty one, but still an inanimate object.
    • One of the other themes that run through your work is anthropomorphic or inanimate objects that come to life in some way.
    • The word ‘article’ means something inanimate which is not and never has been alive.
    • In fact I have heard that good chess masters now study computer games and learn new strategies from those inanimate models.
    1. 1.1 Showing no sign of life; lifeless.
      无生命迹象的,无生气的,无精打采的
      he was completely inanimate and it was difficult to see if he was breathing

      他毫无生命迹象,难以看出他是否还在呼吸。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • His limbs were inanimate, leaving motion only to his prickly black hair dancing to the silent hum of the ocean.
      • And still the numbers and names of the dead ‘hammer through his mind, inanimate as nails’.
      • In both photographs the inanimate face is shown in three-quarter profile facing right against a blank background.
      Synonyms
      lifeless, insentient, insensate, without life, inert, motionless

Origin

Late Middle English: from late Latin inanimatus ‘lifeless’, from in- ‘not’ + animatus (see animate).

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