nonliving

1. Zhang regarded the world as the object of moral concern, which showed his defense of natural order, his respect for other loving things, and his concern for nonliving existences.
   张载把天地万物作为道德关怀的对象，体现了对自然秩序的维护和对其他生命物种的尊重，以及对非生命存在的关爱。
2. The principle that living organisms develop only from other living organisms and not from nonliving matter.
   生源说关于生物机体仅能从其他生物机体而非无生命物质发展而来的原理。
3. Air, water and soil are nonliving things.
   空气，水和土壤是非事物。
4. There is no such thing, in your terms, as nonliving matter.
   用你们的话来说，不存在什么没有生命活力的事物。
5. Others change into nonliving parts of the hair and nails.
   其它细胞变成毛发，指甲等无生命部分。
6. One of the properties of life is to take up certain elements that are scarce in the nonliving world.
   生命的特征之一是摄取非生命界中某些稀少的元素。
7. This makes it highly difficult in a discussion, however, for there is no particular point at which life was inserted into nonliving matter.
   这使讨论非常困难，无论如何没有哪个生命切入非生命物质的特别点。
8. The debate whether a virus is living or nonliving leads nowhere.
   争论病毒是生物体还是非生物体是徒劳无益的。
9. Humus: Nonliving, finely divided organic matter in soil, derived from microbial decomposition of plant and animal substances.
   腐殖质：土壤中无生命的、细小的有机物质。
10. The nonliving material upon which an organism lives or grows.
    培养基：能够使有机体存活或生长在其上的非生命物质。
11. Many of the common materials of the earth's crust may alternate between the living and the nonliving states.
    地球表面上有许多普通的状之都可能在有生命和无生命中交替。
12. "Life" is a system composed of nonliving elements in developmental flux.
    在历史变迁过程中，生命是一个由许多无生命要素组合形成的系统。
13. Any of the sciences, such as physics, chemistry, astronomy, and geology, that analyze the nature and properties of energy and nonliving matter.
    自然科学：分析能量和无生命物质的属性和特征的任一门科学，如物理、化学、天文学和地质学。
14. Life, he declared frequently, was no way to treat an animal. This makes it highly difficult in a discussion, however, for there is no particular point at which life was inserted into nonliving matter.
    时常挂在他嘴边的一句话是绝无法视生命如走兽。这使讨论非常困难，无论如何没有哪个生命切入非生命物质的特别点。
15. This remarkable ability is the basis of all the other differences that distinguish the living from the nonliving.
    这一非凡的能力是区分生物和非生物的各种差别的基础。
16. The supposed development of living organisms from nonliving matter. Substances conveying plant resistance to insects include inorganics, primary and intermediary metabolites and secondary substances.
    自然发生说，无生源说认为生命起源于无生命有机物的学说给予植物抗虫性的物质包括无机物，初始、中间代谢物和次生物质。
17. A hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter.
    一种认为动植物起源于无生命有机物的假想有机现象。
18. Not associated with or derived from living organisms. This remarkable ability is the basis of all the other differences that distinguish the living from the nonliving.
    非生物的，非生物学的与生物体不相关的或不是从生物体衍生的这一非凡的能力是区分生物和非生物的各种差别的基础。
19. Gaia hypothesis: Model of the Earth in which its living and nonliving parts are viewed as a complex interacting system that can be thought of as a single organism.
    盖亚假说：将生物与非生物的部分视为复杂互动系统的地球模型，想象成单一生物。
20. Anything having existence ( living or nonliving).
    任何存在物（有生命的或无生命的）。
21. The understanding of "exhaustible natural resources" which refers to nonliving resources or living resources determines the extent to which Article XX ( g) of GATT can apply.
    对“可耗尽自然资源”的理解&仅指有限的非生命资源还是包括生命资源在内，关涉到GATT第XX（g）条的适用范围。
22. It is very difficult to introduce mechanical theory into organism, biological tissue and apparatus, because the main characteristic of organism is that it has "life" there is essential difference between the structure of alive tissue and nonliving engineering material.
    把力学原理引进生物体、生物组织与器官是一件非常困难的事，因为生物体的主要特点是有生命，有生命的活组织与无生命的工程材料的结构有根本的区别。
23. Chirality is one of the essential characteristics of the nature, which is the main difference between living matter and nonliving matter.
    手性是自然界非常重要的属性之一，也是生命物质与非生命物质的最主要的区别所在。
24. Natural ecological system is a complex system combined action of living organisms and nonliving objects, in this complex system, plant community play an important role in system community and stability.
    自然生态系统是由生命体与非生命体共同作用的复杂系统，在这一复杂系统中，植物群落是整个系统稳定的核心和纽带。

adj

1. not endowed with life
   1. the inorganic world is inanimate
   2. inanimate objects

   Synonym:    inanimatenon-living