able to see or feel things through the senses 有感觉能力的;有知觉力的 Man is a sentient being. 人是有感觉的生物。 There was no sign of any sentient life or activity. 没有任何有知觉的生命或活动的迹象。
Oxford Collocations DictionarySentient is used with these nouns:- being
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin sentient- ‘feeling’, from the verb sentire.