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anim=life,spirit,breath,mind表示生命,精神,气息,心等

animal
A multicellular organism of the kingdom Animalia, differing from plants in certain typical characteristics such as capacity for locomotion, nonphotosynthetic metabolism, pronounced response to stimuli, restricted growth, and fixed bodily structure
n. 动物

短语:
go the whole (或 entire,extreme)animal [美国俚语]干到底，彻底干
stir up the animals 引起争吵，采取会招惹是非的立场
There is no such animal. [口语]才没那么个人(或那么回事)呢

animism
the belief that all natural things, such as plants, animals, rocks, thunder and earthquakes, have spirits (= beings that cannot be seen) and can influence human events
n. 万物有灵论

animate
to make sth more lively or full of energy
to make models, toys, etc. seem to move in a film/movie by rapidly showing slightly different pictures of them in a series, one after another
(formal) living; having life
vt. 使有生气；使活泼；鼓舞；推动
adj. 有生命的

例句:
Jim's arrival served to animate the whole party.
吉姆的到来使聚会的整个气氛活跃了起来。
Her words animated us to greater efforts.
她的话激励我们作出更大努力。

animation
animated quality; liveliness; vivacity; spirit: to talk with animation.
an act or instance of animating or enlivening.
the state or condition of being animated.
the process of preparing animated cartoons.
n. 活泼，热烈；激励；卡通片绘制

inanimate
not animate: a : not endowed with life or spirit <an inanimate object> b : acking consciousness or power of motion <an inanimate body>
not animated or lively : DULL
adj. 无生命的；无生气的

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Even what we think in our vulgar ways to be inanimate objects - even they seem to have within them something like a potency, a potency of life or an infusion of divine spirit.
即使是那些我们以通俗的眼光看来没有生命的物体,即使是它们也有一种潜质，一种生命的潜质，似乎被注入了神灵。

趣味单词

gobble 够饱
to swallow or eat hastily or hungrily in large pieces; gulp.
to seize upon eagerly (often fol. by up): After being gone for so long, they gobbled up all the local news.
to eat hastily
to make the characteristic throaty cry of a male turkey.
the cry itself.
vi. 贪食；咯咯叫
vt. 狼吞虎咽
n. 火鸡叫声

例句:
The children gobbled up their food and rushed out to play.
孩子们狼吞虎咽地吃完饭就冲出去玩了。