If I thought the earth was being friendly toward me, I would be engaging in animism, the term used for giving human qualities to inanimate objects.

如果我认为地球对我的态度很友好，那我就是坚信“万物有灵论”——这一术语常用来指无生命物体有人的特点。

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It was a typical summer evening in June, the atmosphere being in such delicate equilibrium and so transmissive that inanimate objects seemed endowed with two or three senses, if not five.

这是六月里一个典型的傍晚，大气的平衡达到了精细的程度，传导性也十分敏锐，所以没有生命的东西也似乎有了两三种感觉，如果说没有五种的话。

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Submerged under the water means being attached to any sentient being or inanimate thing.

沉入水中是指执着任何有生命的众生或者任何没有生命的事物。

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That also has some humor attached to it, but it also revealed that some judgments were being made about me by inanimate objects who were changing my online experience.

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This becomes very, very important as sensors start being placed into more and more inanimate objects, such as lamps, sprinklers, running shoes, thermostats, toll booths, vending machines, shark-detecting buoys and just about everything else.

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And after much talk of "wormholes" and "parallel universes, " came a conclusion: "We are still very far away from being able to entangle and teleport human beings and bulk inanimate objects, " reads page 46 of the report (PDF file).

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