We can prove that evolution occurs in all living and non-living entities.

我们可以证明进化发生在所有有生命和无生命实体中。

An inanimate object can be knackered?

一个无生命物体也可以用 knackered 形容？

In about a year's time, the Earth would turn into a burnt and lifeless rock.

大约一年内，地球就会变成一，无生命石。

The dead body had been an ugly thing, but alive, he was much more horrible.

那个无生命躯体本来就可怕，而现在变成活就更加恐怖了。

But lifeless processes can make carbonate-rich rocks like limestone, too.

但无生命过程也可以产生富含碳酸盐石，比如石灰。

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，能讲述出引人入胜故事。

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到了回报。

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

阿尼什纳比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。

Spontaneously, inorganic stone becomes living plant! rejoiced one observer, a Dr. Homschuch, in 1819.

“无生命石头自动变成了有生命植物！”一位名叫霍恩舒克博士观察者在1819年高兴地说。

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。

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。

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。

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，比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。

Every living thing has DNA, from plants to animals, to bacteria even to viruses which was once considered 'nonliving'.

从植物到动物到细菌，每一种生物都有 DNA，甚至病毒曾被认为是“无生命”，也有 DNA。

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。

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。

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。

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。

But when we talk about inanimate, we're generally speaking about things that are not alive.

但是当我们谈论无生命时候， 我们通常是在谈论没有生命东西。

'cause we've looked specifically, can live on inanimate objects for variable periods of time.

因为我们仔细观察过，可以在无生命物体上存活不同时间。