Inanimate
[ɪn'ænɪmət]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) not endowed with life; 'the inorganic world is inanimate'; 'inanimate objects' .
(adj.) belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things; 'the word `car' is inanimate' .
錄入:提托--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To animate.
(a.) Not animate; destitute of life or spirit; lifeless; dead; inactive; dull; as, stones and earth are inanimate substances.
整理:理查德
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Lifeless, dead, inert, soulless, spiritless.
錄入:维维恩
同義詞及反義詞：
[See ANIMATE]
手打:米格尔
解釋/意思:
adj. without animation or life: dead: spiritless: dull.—ns. Inan′imateness Inanimā′tion.
錄入:米尔顿
例句/造句/用法:
- When happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- It is in vain to urge, that inanimate objects act without liberty and choice. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- But it is not in its relation with regard to other external and inanimate objects. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- She was there, lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed, her head hanging down, and her pale and distorted features half covered by her hair. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- No matter what the object required may be, whether animate or inanimate, if it is necessary for the play it is found and pressed into service. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- For that relation may be the same betwixt inanimate objects, or with regard to brute creatures; though in those cases it forms no property. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- We bestow thoughtful care upon inanimate objects, but none upon ourselves. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- But I liked his physiognomy even less than before: it struck me as being at the same time unsettled and inanimate. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I discovered that if I were to stay there a month, I should still find myself looking at the people instead of the inanimate objects on exhibition. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- In such a spot death loses half its terrors, and even the inanimate dust appears to partake of the spirit of beauty which hallows this region. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The inanimate objects were not changed; but the living things had altered past recognition. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- This was the sole idea, to turn upon the inanimate matter of the underground, and reduce it to his will. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Hermione went round the room carefully, taking in every detail, as if absorbing the evidence of his presence, in all the inanimate things. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- You take a sort of harsh, solitary triumph in drawing pleasure out of the elements and the inanimate and lower animate creation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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