发音：[ɪnˈanɪmət]
例句：
- Something inanimate demonstrates the character of being lifeless or spiritless, or appearing dead or lacking power of motion.
- A bear in hibernation may appear inanimate due to its decreased heart rate.
- Play with inanimate objects is widely observed in animals, although most examples come from mammals and birds.
- The first is that humans are not inanimate objects; we change our behavior and we watch the news.
- In the less than two decades of their use, the synthetic pesticides have been so thoroughly distributed throughout the animate and inanimate world that they occur virtually everywhere.
解释：
- Inanimate这个单词为形容词，其表示“being lifeless or spiritless”这一含义，即“无生命的/无意识的/无生气的”, animate（有生命的/有活力的）为反义词关系，与unconscious/lifeless/unfeeling这些单词构成近义词。使用时，一般用来形容无生命的对象，例如：桌子/椅子/篮球/汽车等。
- 具体使用场景如下：I decided to clear out the playroom where he had spent much of his young life forming bonds with inanimate objects. （我决定清扫房间，那里堆满了他小时候玩耍的各种玩具。）/China has stressed the possibility of the virus being transmitted on inanimate objects, particularly frozen food.（中国强调病毒有可能通过无生命的物体传播，特别是冷冻食品。）/Photographer Mark Fairhurst began his career photographing inanimate objects, from jewellery to plugs which were used in advertising.（摄影师马克·费尔赫斯特的职业生涯始于拍摄无生命的物体，从珠宝到广告中使用的插头。）
- 另外，inanimate这个单词也可用来形容有生命对象，其表示“appearing dead or lacking power of motion”这一含义，即“缺乏生气的：比较严重、无生命特征的感觉。” 例如：That man lying on the floor seems inanimate.（那个躺在地上的男人看起来毫无生气。）/A bear in hibernation may appear inanimate due to its decreased heart rate.（冬眠中的熊可能由于心率降低而显得无生命。）
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