An inanimate object can be knackered?

一个无生命物体也可以用 knackered 形容？

The team therefore conducted their study using inanimate objects.

因此这组研究人员用非生命体来进行实验。

" But I'm not an inanimate object, " I argued.

“但我不是没有生命物体，”我抗议说。

Speakers of different kinds of English refer to inanimate objects in slightly different ways.

说不同种类英语人对无生命物体称呼略有不同。

Anishinaabemowin does another wonderful thing, which is animate, inanimate marking on all words.

阿尼什语还有一个奇妙之处，那就是，每个词都存在有生命或无生命标志。

I find the personal stories of inanimate things brought to life to be extraordinarily compelling.

我发现，那些无生命物体被数据赋予生命后，能讲述出引人故事。

Anishinaabemowin and other Algonquian languages mark all words as either animate or inanimate.

阿尼什语和其他阿尔贡金语会把所有词标记为有生命或者无生命。

We find the face even in this inanimate picture. And this picture. And this one too.

就算是在这张没有生命照片哩，我们还是在找脸，还有这张照片（苹果），跟这张照片（梨）都是。

So really the life time of giving voices to cars and inanimate objects really paid off.

所以，给汽车和无生命物体发出声音真得到了回报。

Perhaps from ennui, or malaise, humans often stare at random, inanimate objects for hours at a time.

也许是由于厌倦或不适，人类常常会随机盯着无生命物体，一看就是几个小时。

These inanimate objects of our affection are certainly easier to care for than are the real ones.

很显然关爱这些虚拟动物关爱真正动物要容易得多。

But notice how Harrison Ford used the pronoun she to talk about his spacecraft – an inanimate object.

但是请注意哈里森·福特是如何使用代词" she" 来谈论他宇宙飞船——一个无生命物体。

Once, I was perceived to be an inanimate object, a mindless phantom of a boy in a wheelchair.

曾经，我被当作一个没有生命物件，一个坐在轮椅上毫无思想幽灵男孩。

It's so ingrained into our brains that we often bump into things and then apologise to the inanimate object.

这些词汇在我们大脑中根深蒂固，如我们经常撞到了什么东西，然后自然反应地会向无生命东西道歉。

All of this — living and inanimate, microscopic and cosmic — is governed by mathematical laws with apparently arbitrary constants.

无论其有无生命，微观还是庞大，所有这一切都明显受到任意常量数学法则支配。

Not just on people, but actually inanimate objects as well.

不仅在人身上，实际上在无生命物体上也是如此。

So, first we're going to look at animate and inanimate.

所以， 首先我们要看看有生命和无生命。

And the inanimate side would be mountains  and things like that.

无生命一面则是山脉和类似东西。

She likes to name inanimate objects-- it's odd.

她喜欢给无生命体取名字 很怪。

The inanimate objects were not changed; but the living things had altered past recognition.

无生命物体没有改变；但是生物已经改变了面目全非。