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Sentient Things Feel Don’t 英 Sentiənt] 美 Sentiənt Adj.有知觉的;有感情的

英语单词 sentient
英美音标 英 ['sentiənt] 美 ['sentiənt]
中文释义 adj.有知觉的;有感情的
英语例句 (1) This means that your capabilities as a sentient being have been greatly curtailed.
(2) We are taking our power back to determine our fate as a conscious and sentient species upon earth.
中文例句 (1) 这意味着你的知觉存在能力被大大缩减。
(2) 我们正收回我们的力量来确定我们作为地球上一个有意识和有感情的物种的命运。
vocabulary简明 Someone sentient is able to feel things, or sense them. Sentient usually occurs in phrases like "sentient beings" and "sentient creatures," making it clear that things that don’t have life don’t have feelings. Explain that to a pet rock.
vocabulary扩展 Sentient comes from the Latin sentient-, "feeling," and it describes things that are alive, able to feel and perceive, and show awareness or responsiveness. Having senses makes something sentient, or able to smell, communicate, touch, see, or hear. Whether or not plants and living things other than animals and people are sentient depends on whom you ask.
柯林斯解释
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[ADJ 形容词]有感知能力的;有知觉力的 A sentient being is capable of experiencing things through its senses.
  [usu ADJ n]
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • ...sentient creatures human and nonhuman alike.

    有知觉能力的人类和非人类生物

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