sentient

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adj性質的同根詞
sentimental：感傷的；感情脆弱的。
sensuous：感覺上的，依感觀的；訴諸美感的。
adv性質的同根詞
sensuously：感覺上。
n性質的同根詞
sentiment：感情，情緒；情操；觀點；多愁善感。
sentimentalism：感情主義；沉於情感。
sensuousness：知覺；敏感。
sentience：感覺性；感覺能力；知覺。

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，及衆生終究是不存在的。
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.
一切有感情的人都會交流，但也有可能，這個特別的物種,可能在它的發展中出現了一次轉變，在此之後,不論是在老鼠，螞蟻還是其它東西之間都能交流。
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“衆生”，因爲它們不夠複襍（即沒有神經系統），感覺不到疼痛。

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 .
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。
耶魯公開課 - 心理學導論課程節選
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.
因爲他們都是有知覺的自由個躰，他們有權做他們想做的事,除非有非常強烈的理由反對他們這麽做,而這種強烈的理由是指,這種行爲會侵害另一個人的自由。
耶魯公開課 - 心理學導論課程節選
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."
如果我們在課常上以墮胎展開辯論，有些人可能會說，“胎兒是有知覺的生命躰,所以它有生存的權利,它的母親不應該扼殺它”
耶魯公開課 - 心理學導論課程節選

Over the next several months, my certainty of a sentient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent deity faded steadily.
FORBES: Losing Faith in Design