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词汇 inanimate
释义 inanimate
adjective
uk /ɪˈnæn.ɪ.mət/ us /ɪˈnæn.ə.mət/
having none of the characteristics of life that an animal or plant has: 无生气的,无生命的
inanimate objectHe looks at me as if I'm an inanimate object.他看着我的样子好像我是个没有生命的物体。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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inanimate | American Dictionary


inanimate
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ɪˈnæn·ə·mət/
possessing none of the characteristics of life that an animal or plant has:
an inanimate object

Examples of inanimate


inanimate
Collections are 'typically inanimate', they occur 'readily in the plural, but when singular cannot contract plural concord with the verb'.
Similarly, the existence of state class failed to show a significant difference between the two auxiliaries, both in the animate and the inanimate variant.
For the existence of state class, both animate and inanimate subjects were tested.
If the subject refers to an inanimate entity affecting a human direct object, the genitive is obligatory for the direct object.
For inanimate matter, this protoconsciousness is something so simple and primitive that we would hardly recognize it as consciousness at all.
We also noted that o-mano counts as inanimate.
The vehicles represented inanimate objects, possessing wheels and more straight line contours.
Participants judged whether a word referred to a living thing (an ' 'animate' ' entity) or to non-living thing (an ' 'inanimate' ' entity).
Far from being the inanimate stuff typically envisioned by modern thought, materials in this original sense are the active constituents of a world-in-formation.
The great majority of noun modifiers are again, throughout the various time intervals, inanimate.
Nor, finally, is whose avoided with inanimate antecedents.
As animate entities were both more conceptually and lexically accessible retrieval of these entities from memory should be faster than retrieval of the inanimate agent.
As noted before, impersonal passives were less acceptable for inanimate subjects but this difference failed to reach significance (see figure 5).
Broadly considered, selection does occur in the inanimate world, often providing a formative step in the production of order.
Table 3 lists the absolute frequencies of animate versus inanimate subjects in the cor pus.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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