| 词汇 | animacy | 
| 释义 | animacy  noun [ U ]  language specialized uk/ˈæn.ɪ.mə.si/ us/ˈæn.ə.mə.si/  有生性 the quality in a noun of referring to something animate (= a living being)  Studies suggest that animacy has some influence on the syntactic structure of sentences. 研究表明(名词的)有生性对句子的句法结构有一些影响。   Animacy and agency are linked in English; for example, sentences such as "The man kicked the ball" are more frequent than sentences such as "The ladder hit the man."  在英语里,有生性和能动性是相关联的;以句子为例,比如“人踢了球”就比“梯子砸了人”更常见。  
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