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单词 inanimate
释义
inanimate
(ɪnænɪmət )
adjective
An inanimate object is one that has no life.
He thought of the baby almost as an inanimate object.
Synonyms: lifeless, inert, dead, cold  
Collocations:
inanimate matter
It therefore tells us to value people less than inanimate matter.
Times, Sunday Times
For each and every perversity of so-called inanimate matter.
The Times Literary Supplement
Many 'cyberphilosophers' share his fascination with accelerating complexity, the integrated evolution of animate and inanimate matter, and the coming epochal 'cognisphere'.
The Times Literary Supplement
The collective consciousness can be alerted to an impending volcanic eruption because of the consciousness of the inanimate matter involved, and take the necessary precautions.
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In this sense they are similar to inanimate matter.
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inanimate object
Or did we remember an ugly afternoon spent threatening an inanimate object with a hammer?
Times, Sunday Times
And it's shocking because it's an inanimate object.
Times, Sunday Times
If applied to an inanimate object, it means to be at rest.
Times, Sunday Times
She revels in the menacing potential of stillness, the sinister heft of the inanimate object.
Times, Sunday Times
They put a living soul into an inanimate object.
Smithsonian
inanimate thing
It's an inanimate thing, a tool, a convenience.
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These inanimate things help to conjure the human reality behind the dry language of official records.
Times, Sunday Times
We collect, it seems, to hold back time and create, through the preservation of inanimate things, a personal museum, usually with only one visitor.
Times, Sunday Times
She also has an imaginative fascination with the life of inanimate things, known to poets as 'images' and crime writers as 'clues'.
Times, Sunday Times
Moreover, love extends to inanimate things.
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