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nonhuman

/non-hyoo-muhn or, often, -yoo-/US // nɒnˈhyu mən or, often, -ˈyu- //

非人类,非人,非人类的,非人的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not human.
    • : not displaying the emotions, sympathies, intelligence, etc., of most human beings.
    • : not intended for consumption by humans: nonhuman products such as soaps and detergents.

Examples

  • If successful, they may move towards nonhuman primates before attempting to create life for expecting parents.

  • The book makes a clear case for the moral value of individual sentient creatures, providing a rundown of the latest science that dissolves the distinct line often drawn between humans and nonhumans.

  • Next is a surprisingly readable history of how philosophers have conceived nonhuman beings, beginning with ancient cultures and proceeding to Singer and beyond.

  • By studying muscles in the great apes and other nonhuman primates, the team has created reference databases.

  • You’re never going to find a human baby with nonhuman parents.

  • Cromwell, for one, thinks the Academy should revise its rules to recognize nonhuman performers.

  • Perhaps because in some ways it did resemble his own, that face was more preposterously nonhuman.

  • "Nebran—" The dwarfish nonhuman gabbled something then doubled behind me.

  • He'd brought her some sort of nonhuman toy from one of the lowland towns, Charin I think.

  • There seemed to be dozens of faces, shifting with each spin of the prism, human and nonhuman, all dim and slightly distorted.

  • A golden nonhuman child murmured something as she pattered by me in the street, and I stopped, gripped by a spasm of stagefright.