Sentient
[ˈsentiənt] or ['sɛntɪənt]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; 'the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage'- T.E.Lawrence .
(adj.) consciously perceiving; 'sentient of the intolerable load'; 'a boy so sentient of his surroundings'- W.A.White .
錄入:欧文--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissues.
(n.) One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.
埃莉整理
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Perceiving, perceptive, sensitive.
道格拉斯校對
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Feeling, percipient, conscious, intelligent, cognizant
ANT:Insentient, insensate, mindless, unconscious, unintelligent, nonpercipient,incognizant
布丽奇特編輯
解釋/意思:
adj. discerning by the senses: having the faculty of perception and sensation: (phys.) noting those parts which on stimulation give rise to sensation.—n. the mind as capable of feeling.—ns Sen′tience Sen′tiency.—adv. Sen′tiently in a sentient or perceptive manner.
整理:莫尼卡
例句/造句/用法:
- It was stone, but it seemed sentient. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Like sentient things--even like the lords and ladies of creation sometimes--might have done much, but did nothing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- From the primitive or nutrient soul which ha s to do with the vital functions of growth and reproduction, is developed the sentient soul, concerned with movemen t and sensibility. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
整理:莫尼卡