SADLY for engineers, inanimate objects cannot yet repair themselves.

对工程师来说悲哀的一面是，没有生命的物体还无法实现自我修复。

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I don't think it's degrading to women or men or animals or inanimate objects.

我并不认为它是对女人或者是男人或动物们或非动物的侮辱。

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The challenge is to make inanimate objects shimmer and glow with vibrancy and life.

最大的挑战在于要让没有生命的物体洋溢着跃动的光芒和生命的光采。

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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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Infants can distinguish a human face from inanimate objects or even animal faces.

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