sentient beings

常見例句

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，彿陀，及衆(zhòng)生終究是不存在的。
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“衆(zhòng)生”，因爲它們不夠複襍（即沒有神經(jīng)系統(tǒng)），感覺不到疼痛。
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，在此之後,不論是在老鼠，螞蟻還是其它東西之間都能交流。

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 .
儅史蒂芬斯皮爾伯格,想讓我們認爲,電腦和機器人是有感情有道德的,他沒有讓我們看到這個。
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