【每日一词】sentient -/ ˈsen(t)-sh(ē-)ənt ˈsen-tē-ənt / adj. 有感情的；有感觉力的；意识到的 n. 有知觉的人

　　1: capable of sensing or feeling : conscious of or responsive to the sensations of seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, or smelling

　　sentient beings

　　Some among the group of potters … speak of the kiln as though it were sentient. —Barry Lopez

　　But the really intriguing question is a hypothetical one. What would Google's response be if it realised that it actually had a sentient machine on its hands? —John Naughton

　　But the terrible silence and emptiness seemed to symbolize her future—she felt as though the house, the street, the world were all empty, and she alone left sentient in a lifeless universe. —Edith Wharton

　　2: aware

　　sentient of the danger posed by the approaching hurricane

　　But the strange thing is that a boy so sentient of his surroundings should have been so insensible to the real world about him. —W. A. White

　　3: finely sensitive in perception or feeling

　　a sentient author with beautiful prose

　　As every sentient diplomat knows, diplomacy uses the reputation of power to achieve what power itself often cannot achieve, or can achieve only at greater and sometimes excessive cost. —Colin L. Powell

　　Synonyms

　　alive,apprehensive,aware,cognizant,conscious,mindful,sensible,ware,witting

　　短语

　　sentient being: 有情众生

　　sentient beings: 众生；有情；有情众生；有知觉的生物

　　Sentient Genu: 情感物种

　　Sentient Econometrics: 经济预测学；预测计量经济学

　　Pre-Sentient Algorithms: 预测算法

　　FUSION SENTIENT: 感知者

　　Making Sentient: 使有情；让众生

　　The Sentient Group: 神特集团

　　Sentient Science: 知觉科学

　　Examples of sentient in a Sentence

　　sentient of the danger posed by the approaching hurricane

　　Recent Examples on the Web

　　Thankfully, director Shawn Levy landed the in-demand actor to lead Free Guy, the 2021 film about an NPC (that’s non-player character, for you non-gamers) who becomes sentient.

　　—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 24 July 2024

　　Also, neither addresses the even farther-out prospect that AIs might become sentient or self-aware.

　　—Scott Rosenberg, Axios, 15 July 2024

　　Tornadic storms are seemingly sentient at times, throwing the entire fury of the atmosphere at those daring enough to venture close.

　　—Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 21 July 2024

　　But maybe to be sentient is to be lonely and to have grief?

　　—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 16 July 2024

　　双语例句

　　Man is a sentient being.

　　人是有感觉的生物。

　　They may not be walking, talking, human-like sentient beings, but they are clever.

　　他们可能不会走路，不会说话，不会像人类一样有感情，但他们很聪明。

　　You're asking me to believe in sentient meat.

　　难道你想让我相信肉是有知觉的？