Previous studies have found that the prefrontal cortex is not activated when people interact with inanimate objects, such as a computer game.

过去的调查研究表明，当人们同无生命的物体互动的时候前额皮质不会被激活，例如打电脑游戏。

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In those languages, men are (usually, but not always) masculine, females are feminine, and inanimate objects may be masculine, feminine, or neuter.

在这些语言中，男人(通常是，但不总是)为阳性，女人是阴性，而无生物，则可能是阳性、阴性，或者中性。

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It was a typical summer evening in June, the atmosphere being in such delicate equilibrium and so transmissive that inanimate objects seemed endowed with two or three senses, if not five.

这是六月里一个典型的傍晚，大气的平衡达到了精细的程度，传导性也十分敏锐，所以没有生命的东西也似乎有了两三种感觉，如果说没有五种的话。

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Plus, can you imagine how difficult it's going to be walking across a busy street, dealing with people not just engrossed in their cell phones, but literally looking ahead and focused on inanimate objects?

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