| 词汇 | example_english_creature |
| 释义 | Examples of creatureThese 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. The front cover is graced by a group of indisputably bird-like creatures. Moral accomplishments, in a world of creatures immune to harm, would not matter. Suppose the best world a given omnipotent and omniscient creator could actualize contains creatures who endure incredible amounts of pain. The apparent alternative is not to create any free creatures or else not leave them significantly free. He believes that: "the field needs some application successes, tools to understand biological systems, and the consideration of features of biological creatures such as metabolism". Another, less ambitious, possibility is that creatures' actions merely satisfy the principles. Many virtual creatures are intended by their human creators as computer simulations of real life. The alleged incoherence thus consists in being committed to holding that creatures are both continuants and non-continuants. Such creatures would be ' perfectly reasonable ' in the sense that they could never be weak-willed in their pursuit of the good. I see no reason to suppose that an omnipotent creator would be unable to produce creatures like these. What understanding of the creature's causal contribution will allow us to maintain that such theories really are co-operative ? Of two creatures in nature it is the one with a more truthful and reliable picture of the world that survives and propagates its genes. After all, such beings would want their creatures to know all sorts of things about them. Sightings of man-like creatures that continued to be reported, by both sailors and fishermen, fuelled the many folk legends that developed. His creatures are interactive with other machines, commencing with simple patterns of behaviour and evolving to more complex ones. How was it that human creatures, who were so evidently disposed to pride, could be prompted to capitulate to subjection? The hollow spaces left when the creatures dissolved were filled with silicate in solution. All creatures manifest approach and avoidance behaviors, but they also manifest changes in activity-quiescence, agonistic competition, and prosocial cooperation. Both countries sent carefully monitored dogs and primates into orbit to study the effects of weightlessness on living creatures. The continuum here is supposed to be both phylogenetic and characteristic of the various elements involved in the communicative acts of higher social creatures. In fact, it is surely likely that prelinguistic creatures of the same species have significantly similar predicates, because of shared adaptive heredity. We are not only creatures of perception and action; we are goal-directed creatures. Violations of normative rules by cognitively humble creatures in their natural environments are more of a problem for normative rules than for the creatures. Their minds and wills atrophied, and they became solely creatures of sensual instinct. I even can say love toward all creatures. Isolated and categorized representations of objects are creatures of detached contemplation. Since we tend to be creatures of the moment, we discount the future relative to the present. The appeal is thus one that anticipates the use of tracks and individual prints in the context of a genuine taxonomy of extinct creatures. How are simple creatures able to effectively survive in the real world? Perhaps these are limited by previous kenotic acts such as granting free will to some creatures. Second, if there are physically necessary events, many of them are subject to intervention by free creatures and, therefore, are not subject to divine knowledge. He did this out of compassion for the suffering of all other creatures. Furthermore, when looking for a controlled and manipulated creature's essence, being controlled and manipulated is perceived as a part of its very essence. Other creatures, most notably the fly, met a similar fate. The pariahs looked like disgusting creatures crawling upon their bellies. The developers believe that all kinds of robotic creatures will explore the oceans and send back information. On the one hand, they acknowledge that humans possess innate predispositions just like all other creatures. They are equally poetical creatures, nomina not numina. At least, "pain" should apply generally and univocally to (most) people, and probably to creatures with which people share recent common (or, perhaps, any) ancestors. Despite the common ground of the titles and aspirations of these two books, they are very different creatures. He thinks that nonlinguistic creatures plainly do engage in conceptual thought, which shows that language is not necessary for it. The creatures of rational choice theory fail to deliberate about what to want, believe and do in the way that thinking agents would. We are, in short, anxious creatures, destined to prolonged bouts of discontentment. Chimpanzees are good candidates for investigating the origins of our cognitive evolution, being the closest relatives of humans among living creatures. A tentative suggestion is that the birds and animals may represent totemic creatures associated with patri-clans. The second is whether he gives a plausible account of stimulus-reinforcement responses in language-using creatures. Like all other creatures, human beings do not exist on the 'other side' of materiality but swim in an ocean of materials. The element of fire is highest and placed above all the creatures of the world. My count omits the border fantasy creatures with wings. Surely two creatures - two perceivers - could have detectors that detected exactly the same features of the external environment but which appeared to them quite differently. Popular belief held that rivers were inhabited by demons and spirits who took physical form as dragons, snakes, or other strange water creatures. There appears to be a clear link between representations of these creatures and both ritual and ear thly power. Rational creatures were free to choose between good and will, and the choice of evil is uncaused and quite inexplicable. If so, arguably creating a world with more goods which are not goods for their creatures needn't be a morally better action. One, which he attaches great importance to, involves the claim that, in the great majority of cases, living creatures are happy. Too much evidence too soon could well be to the detriment of finite creatures. One's fellow creatures must be neither self-sufficient nor beyond harm. In any case, why should he not have been able to give this command to one of his creatures ? He argues that free choice is compatible with determinism, and that an omnipotent being could determine that free creatures never choose wrongly. While means are a matter of deliberation and choice, ends are not, since they represent the created destiny of goal-seeking creatures endowed with freedom. In any case, the provisions made would allow creatures to exercise their free will. Human beings are biological creatures, and so human beings, with all their psychological states, are complex physical creatures. The limitations on the nature of other creatures are contained within my prescribed laws. The virtual creatures would be defined in purely informational terms, as strings of bits or computer instructions. If so, would these creatures necessarily be robots, or could they also include virtual life ? In that case, it is arbitrary that the norms are binding on all and only those creatures of which the determining brute facts obtain. The descriptions surrounding such displays - ' extraordinary ', ' living mountain ' and ' sensation ' - suggest how these creatures became sites for the navigation of the unfamiliar. Virtual creatures interact with each other based on a series of needs and drives, as well as a loosely predetermined hierarchy and food chain. To deep ecologists, this animal research is morally questionable: it causes physical and psychological injury to innocent creatures. Many of them were unattractive creatures who had never before had a chance. Neither being can refer to just itself, so the firstperson pronoun doesn't have any content for such creatures. The present tack thus takes both of the main strategies for preserving in theory the persistence of creatures. Give me a garden full of strong, healthy creatures, able to stand roughness and cold without dismally giving in and dying. Evidence for this comes from retinal neurons in cold-blooded creatures not responding dramatically more slowly to visual stimulation than in mammals. Two creatures of this type meeting face to face are affected in a similar but again distinctive manner. Deploying the common rhetoric of melodrama, the bill's opponents insisted that women were fragile creatures, the easy prey of libertines and seducers. They spent the next three hours on the beach, taking advantage of the low tide to collect molluscs and small marine creatures. Maybe the narrator is merely projecting human emotion onto creatures so fundamentally inhuman ? The creatures and objects in the computer game all emit sounds. The tube was kept next to bis body, thus simulating the natural conditions of warmth and moisture under which these creatures thrive. The nurse used to put the child in a cradle under the creature's feet. They found that participants of all ages accepted, to some extent, the postural-change creatures, but were less likely to accept the identitychange creatures. Thus, it is unlikely that infants did not perceive the novel animals as animate-like creatures, although that explanation cannot be completely eliminated. Men were creatures of heat and possessed the associated attributes of order, reason, and virtue. The quintessential feature of these creatures is their blatant anomaly. Even if the whole cosmos is more good than ill, what of the cost to individual creatures in it? The creatures' language is indistinguishable from ours except that our temperature vocabulary of "cold," "hot," "warmer than," and so on is used in visual observations. Because there could be such creatures (infrared cousins), it follows that mental terms are not fixed by immediate experience. However, the suggestion that creatures can be envisioned who possess cognitive equipment which vastly outstrips our own is less easy to settle. Specific instances of each figure are like different living creatures, often morphologically similar, but genetically distinct. Later in the century, however, they were taken more seriously, and were regarded, as they had been in the seventeenth century, as 'sublime' creatures. Dredged up from the subconscious were fearful creatures, disorientated worlds, violent impulses expressed in crude discordant colours and marks. Although the experiences of strange creatures in a strange setting may be highly imaginative, they become dramatic only when we can identify with them emotionally. The ocean zones are not, however, quite as rigidly separated as this description suggests- fortunately for living creatures. To some extent they are, and some marine creatures treat the whole maritime world as their oyster. Such engineering may enrich wildlife, by creating more crannies for coastal creatures to live. Coral reefs- and the creatures within them- may grow remarkably quickly. There appeared a new strain of trichinae, microscopic creatures parasitic upon the bodies of human beings. 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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