inanimate object

基本解释

It inhabits both humans and animals and can survive in water and on inanimate objects.
它栖息在人和动物身上，在水里和没有生命的物体上也能存活。
However, it might be possible with other large but inanimate objects linked to a quantum device.
不过，有可能采用其他大型但无生命物体与量子装置相连接。
Even though many of your photographs focus on inanimate objects or settings, each of your shots manage to capture so much life and emotion.
尽管你的许多摄影作品关注的都是无生命的物体或者场景，但是你的每一个镜头都能够设法捕捉到其中的生命力和情感。

Even what we think in our vulgar ways to be inanimate objects - even they seem to have within them something like a potency, a potency of life or an infusion of divine spirit.
即使是那些我们以通俗的眼光看来没有生命的物体,-即使是它们也有一种潜质，一种生命的潜质，似乎被注入了神灵。
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So, we are basically dealing with inanimate objects.
我们基本上都是研究非生命体的
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Rather, it asserted that cellphones are analogous to other mundane inanimate objects, like cigarette boxes and clothes.
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As human beings, we have a primal instinct to instantaneously profile people, the weather, inanimate objects, and situations.
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