单词	inanimate
释义	inanimatein‧an‧i‧mate /ɪnˈænəmət/ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES How can you get angry with a car? It's an inanimate object! Some languages categorise not only living things as masculine or feminine, but inanimate objects as well. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS And yes, the baby is just your standard inanimate stage bundle. Everything animate and inanimate followed him. For, instance, inanimate objects are typically easier to identify than animate objects. If we are imaginative enough we can project ourselves inside plants and inanimate objects as well as other animals. Only the inanimate objects in view were registered on the plates. The fall back to the beast and beyond even that-to mere inanimate existence-is complete. The Minoans also regarded certain inanimate objects as incarnations of a deity. They seek life's meaning in possessions, and use inanimate objects to tell other Earthlets who they are. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorsomething that is not living and never has been living► inanimate : inanimate object · How can you get angry with a car? It's an inanimate object!· Some languages categorise not only living things as masculine or feminine, but inanimate objects as well. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► inanimate object  an inanimate object COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► inanimate objects  scientists studying plants, animals, or inanimate objects (=things that are not alive) COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► object · This makes the study of human beings different from that of animals and of inanimate objects.· Some people, for example, take on the persona of an animal or a monster or an inanimate object.· It forces them to tease out information from inanimate objects.· Frankly, I never used to feel guilty about disappointing inanimate objects.· The Bible as holy literature, the oracles of the Logos, has become for them an inanimate object of scientific investigation.· If either of these inanimate objects knows you are going to dump it, it will turn on you.· The distinction applies to nouns which refer to animate beings as well as those which refer to inanimate objects.· His world was filled with copulating inanimate objects and people getting their faces ripped off. not living:  an inanimate object
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