sentient

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adj性質(zhì)的同根詞
sentimental：感傷的；感情脆弱的。
sensuous：感覺上的，依感觀的；訴諸美感的。
adv性質(zhì)的同根詞
sensuously：感覺上。
n性質(zhì)的同根詞
sentiment：感情，情緒；情操；觀點(diǎn)；多愁善感。
sentimentalism：感情主義；沉于情感。
sensuousness：知覺；敏感。
sentience：感覺性；感覺能力；知覺。

Desiring to show his attainment, he said: "The mind, Buddha, and sentient beings, after all, do not exist.
山岡渴望顯示自己的才能，他說：“精神，佛陀，及眾生終究是不存在的。
All sentient beings communicate, but it's possible that this particular species could have taken a turn in its development after which communication was much as it is among mice or ants or whatever.
一切有感情的人都會交流，但也有可能，這個(gè)特別的物種,可能在它的發(fā)展中出現(xiàn)了一次轉(zhuǎn)變，在此之后,不論是在老鼠，螞蟻還是其它東西之間都能交流。
Plants are indeed life forms, but not sentient beings, as they are not complex enough (e.g. have no nervous system) to feel pain.
植物也有生命，但不是“眾生”，因?yàn)樗鼈儾粔驈?fù)雜（即沒有神經(jīng)系統(tǒng)），感覺不到疼痛。

when Steven Spielberg tried to get us to entertain the notion that computers and robots are sentient moral beings he did not show us one that looked like this .
當(dāng)史蒂芬斯皮爾伯格,想讓我們認(rèn)為,電腦和機(jī)器人是有感情有道德的,他沒有讓我們看到這個(gè)。
耶魯公開課 - 心理學(xué)導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
Since they are sentient, free creatures, they should have a right to do whatever they want unless there is a compelling argument against it and a compelling argument would have to involve some infringement of the freedom of other people.
因?yàn)樗麄兌际怯兄X的自由個(gè)體，他們有權(quán)做他們想做的事,除非有非常強(qiáng)烈的理由反對他們這么做,而這種強(qiáng)烈的理由是指,這種行為會侵害另一個(gè)人的自由。
耶魯公開課 - 心理學(xué)導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
If we have a debate about abortion in this class, people--some people might say, "Look. The fetus is a sentient being and as such it has a right to survive and shouldn't be killed by its mother."
如果我們在課常上以墮胎展開辯論，有些人可能會說，“胎兒是有知覺的生命體,所以它有生存的權(quán)利,它的母親不應(yīng)該扼殺它”
耶魯公開課 - 心理學(xué)導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選

Over the next several months, my certainty of a sentient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent deity faded steadily.
FORBES: Losing Faith in Design