(adj.) not endowed with life; 'the inorganic world is inanimate'; 'inanimate objects' .
(adj.) belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things; 'the word `car' is inanimate' .
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双语例句
When happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations. 玛丽·雪莱.弗兰肯斯坦.
It is in vain to urge, that inanimate objects act without liberty and choice. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
But it is not in its relation with regard to other external and inanimate objects. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
She was there, lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed, her head hanging down, and her pale and distorted features half covered by her hair. 玛丽·雪莱.弗兰肯斯坦.
No matter what the object required may be, whether animate or inanimate, if it is necessary for the play it is found and pressed into service. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
For that relation may be the same betwixt inanimate objects, or with regard to brute creatures; though in those cases it forms no property. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
We bestow thoughtful care upon inanimate objects, but none upon ourselves. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
But I liked his physiognomy even less than before: it struck me as being at the same time unsettled and inanimate. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
I discovered that if I were to stay there a month, I should still find myself looking at the people instead of the inanimate objects on exhibition. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
In such a spot death loses half its terrors, and even the inanimate dust appears to partake of the spirit of beauty which hallows this region. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
The inanimate objects were not changed; but the living things had altered past recognition. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
This was the sole idea, to turn upon the inanimate matter of the underground, and reduce it to his will. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
Hermione went round the room carefully, taking in every detail, as if absorbing the evidence of his presence, in all the inanimate things. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
You take a sort of harsh, solitary triumph in drawing pleasure out of the elements and the inanimate and lower animate creation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.