| 单词 | sentient |
| 释义 | sentient (once / 5160 pages) adj 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. 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. WORD FAMILYsentient: insentient, sentience, sentiency, sentiently+/insentient: insentience USAGE EXAMPLESShe is a sentient being who grips the gilt-edged rim and stares into the ewer’s depths like a priestess awaiting divination from the gods. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) One sentient branch of the tree of life is descended from the animals that crawled onto dry land hundreds of millions of years ago. Economist(Dec 15, 2016) Bernard has taken his own “life” after becoming sentient. Time(Nov 28, 2016) 1adj endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence Syn|Ant animate sensate having physical sensation insensate, insentient devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation unfeelingdevoid of feeling or sensation 2adj consciously perceiving sentient of the intolerable load "a boy so sentient of his surroundings"- W.A.White Syn conscious knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。