sentient

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adj性质的同根词
sentimental：感伤的；感情脆弱的。
sensuous：感觉上的，依感观的；诉诸美感的。
adv性质的同根词
sensuously：感觉上。
n性质的同根词
sentiment：感情，情绪；情操；观点；多愁善感。
sentimentalism：感情主义；沉于情感。
sensuousness：知觉；敏感。
sentience：感觉性；感觉能力；知觉。

Desiring to show his attainment, he said: "The mind, Buddha, and sentient beings, after all, do not exist.
山冈渴望显示自己的才能，他说：“精神，佛陀，及众生终究是不存在的。
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.
一切有感情的人都会交流，但也有可能，这个特别的物种,可能在它的发展中出现了一次转变，在此之后,不论是在老鼠，蚂蚁还是其它东西之间都能交流。
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“众生”，因为它们不够复杂（即没有神经系统），感觉不到疼痛。

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 .
当史蒂芬斯皮尔伯格,想让我们认为,电脑和机器人是有感情有道德的,他没有让我们看到这个。
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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.
因为他们都是有知觉的自由个体，他们有权做他们想做的事,除非有非常强烈的理由反对他们这么做,而这种强烈的理由是指,这种行为会侵害另一个人的自由。
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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."
如果我们在课常上以堕胎展开辩论，有些人可能会说，“胎儿是有知觉的生命体,所以它有生存的权利,它的母亲不应该扼杀它”
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Over the next several months, my certainty of a sentient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent deity faded steadily.
FORBES: Losing Faith in Design