adj. 无生命的；非生物的
1.A great virologist declared that the virus is nonliving, do you believe?
非常有名的病毒学家曾断言病毒是死物，你相信吗？
2.There is no such thing, in your terms, as nonliving matter.
用你们的话来说，不存在什么没有生命活力的事物。
3.This makes it highly difficult in a discussion, however, for there is no particular point at which life was inserted into nonliving matter.
这使讨论非常困难，无论如何没有哪个生命切入非生命物质的特别点。
4.Protoplasm distinguishes living from nonliving things.
原生质可区别出生物和非生物。
5.In 1860 Louis Pasteur performed experiments that eventually disproved "spontaneous generation," the idea that life continually arose from nonliving things.
1860年，路易斯·巴斯德做了个实验，最终反驳了“自然发生说”，这一说认为生命源源不断于无生命的物体。
6.Lovelock: There is no clear distinction anywhere on the Earth's surface between living and nonliving matter.
洛夫·洛克说：地球表面上任何地方都没有生命或非生命的明确区分。