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animate v.使有生气；赋予生命；鼓励adj.有生命的；有活力的 (1) 一丝笑容使她脸上平添了生气。(2) 吉姆的到来使聚会的整个气氛活跃了起来。(3) 他的激昂情绪振奋了我们大家。(4) 那条狗卧着一动也不动,简直不像活的。 Animated cartoons are what we think of as pictures come to life: animation. Animate derives from the Latin anima "life, soul, spirit." When you seem particularly filled with life, or high-spirited, if you laugh loudly, or use broad gestures, you're animated.

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英 ['ænɪmeɪt] 美 ['ænɪmeɪt] (1) A smile animated her face.(2) Jim's arrival served to animate the whole party.(3) His excitement animated us all.(4) The dog lay so still it scarcely seemed animate. At its most basic, animate means simply alive, while inanimate means not living, not moving around. But animate also means spirited, or brought to life. The adjective is pronounced /'ænɪmət/. The verb is pronounced /'ænɪmeɪt/. 形容词读作 /'ænɪmət/，动词读作 /'ænɪmeɪt/。1[ADJ 形容词]有生命的；活的 Something that is animate has life, in contrast to things like stones and machines which do not. ...all aspects of the material world, animate and inanimate.物质世界的方方面面，包括有生命的和无生命的2[VERB 动词]使有生气；使活泼；激励；鼓舞 To animate something means to make it lively or more cheerful.   [V n]There was precious little about the cricket to animate the crowd...板球比赛能激起观众热情的地方很少。The girls watched, little teasing smiles animating their faces.女孩们注视着，脸上挂着调皮的微笑，显得愈加活泼。

英语单词	animate
英美音标	英 ['ænɪmeɪt] 美 ['ænɪmeɪt]
中文释义	v.使有生气；赋予生命；鼓励 adj.有生命的；有活力的
英语例句	(1) A smile animated her face. (2) Jim's arrival served to animate the whole party. (3) His excitement animated us all. (4) The dog lay so still it scarcely seemed animate.
中文例句	(1) 一丝笑容使她脸上平添了生气。 (2) 吉姆的到来使聚会的整个气氛活跃了起来。 (3) 他的激昂情绪振奋了我们大家。 (4) 那条狗卧着一动也不动,简直不像活的。
vocabulary简明	At its most basic, animate means simply alive, while inanimate means not living, not moving around. But animate also means spirited, or brought to life.
vocabulary扩展	Animated cartoons are what we think of as pictures come to life: animation. Animate derives from the Latin anima "life, soul, spirit." When you seem particularly filled with life, or high-spirited, if you laugh loudly, or use broad gestures, you're animated.
柯林斯解释	The adjective is pronounced /'ænɪmət/. The verb is pronounced /'ænɪmeɪt/. 形容词读作 /'ænɪmət/，动词读作 /'ænɪmeɪt/。 1 [ADJ 形容词]有生命的；活的 Something that is animate has life, in contrast to things like stones and machines which do not. ...all aspects of the material world, animate and inanimate. 物质世界的方方面面，包括有生命的和无生命的 2 [VERB 动词]使有生气；使活泼；激励；鼓舞 To animate something means to make it lively or more cheerful. [V n] There was precious little about the cricket to animate the crowd... 板球比赛能激起观众热情的地方很少。 The girls watched, little teasing smiles animating their faces. 女孩们注视着，脸上挂着调皮的微笑，显得愈加活泼。

Animate Animated Means Life Pronounced 英 ænɪmeɪt] 美 ænɪmeɪt