Sentient means able to feel and notice the world through the senses: pain, warmth, fear, pleasure. A sentient being is not a stone.

SentientSentientmeans意思是able to feel and notice能夠感覺和察覺the world這個世界through the senses透過感官: pain, warmth, fear, pleasure痛、溫暖、恐懼、愉悅。A sentient being一個sentient的生命體is not不是a stone一顆石頭。

People use it most in careful talk about animals, minds, and stories about machines that start to feel. A dog is sentient; a chair is not.

People use it most人們最常用它in careful talk about在講究的談論裡, 談到animals, minds, and stories about machines that start to feel動物、心智，以及開始有感覺的機器的故事。A dog一隻狗is sentient是sentient的; a chair一張椅子is not不是。

Though actually, speakers often stretch it toward “conscious” or even “smart,” especially in science fiction. Feeling is the core; being clever is a different idea (that is closer to sapient, a rarer word).

Though actually不過實際上, speakers使用這個字的人often stretch it常常把它延伸toward指向“conscious”「有意識」or even甚至“smart,”「聰明」, especially尤其in science fiction在科幻作品裡。Feeling感覺is the core才是核心; being clever聰明is a different idea是另一回事(that is closer to（那比較接近sapientsapient, a rarer word)一個更少見的字）。

You will also hear sentient as a noun, “a sentient,” meaning a being that can feel — usually in fiction or philosophy, not in everyday chat.

You will also hear你也會聽到sentient as a nounsentient當名詞用, “a sentient,”「a sentient」, meaning意思是a being that can feel一個能感覺的生命體— usually in fiction or philosophy——通常出現在小說或哲學裡, not而不是in everyday chat在日常聊天裡。

In ethics, calling animals sentient is a way of saying their pain counts. It is a serious, rather formal adjective, not a medical everyday word like “awake.”

In ethics在倫理學裡, calling animals sentient把動物稱作sentientis a way of saying是一種表達方式，意思是their pain counts牠們的痛苦是算數的。It is它是a serious, rather formal adjective一個嚴肅、相當正式的形容詞, not而不是a medical everyday word like一個像...一樣的日常醫療用詞“awake.”「awake」（清醒的）。