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sentient

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++sen·tient /ˈsenʃənt/ adjective formal or technical  EXISTable to experience things through your senses 有感知力的,有知觉力的 Man is a sentient being. 人是有感知力的生命。
Examples from the Corpus
sentientThey are states that all sentient beings have a good reason to want.Her aviary at Prides was a carnival of sentient color and living sound.These two possible views of the Ring are kept up throughout the three volumes: sentient creature, or psychic amplifier.Most have spent all their sentient life as paid-up devotees, and the glib phrases soon roll off the tongue.But there was no sign of any sentient life or activity.Vologsky was like a zombie, existing on the outermost fringe of sentient life.Here, the patient, though chronically dependent on the ventilator is a conscious, sentient person.Best of all, Uulaa is a Freeworld, without local sentient population and so outside the Federation.
Origin sentient (1600-1700) Latin present participle of sentire to feel, notice
sen·tient adjectiveChineseSyllable
able senses through Corpus to experience your things


sentient
sentient /ˈsenʃənt/ adjective formal or technical
 Date: 1600-1700
 Language: Latin
 Origin: present participle of sentire __to feel, notice__
able to experience things through your senses:
    Man is a sentient being.


sen·tientBrE /ˈsentiənt/ 🔊NAmE /ˈsentiənt/ 🔊BrE /ˈsenʃnt/ 🔊NAmE /ˈsenʃnt/ 🔊 adjective [usually before noun] (formal) able to see or feel things through the senses 有感觉能力的;有知觉力的Man is a sentient being. 人是有感觉的生物。🔊🔊