animate

使有生气、赋予活力、使热络

A few good questions animated the whole discussion.

几个好问题让整场讨论热络起来。

制作动画、使动起来

They animated the characters frame by frame for the short film.

他们为这部短片逐格制作角色动画。

激励、驱动常用被动

The team was animated by a shared sense of purpose.

团队受到共同目标的驱动。

赋予生命、使活起来

In the story, a spell animates the stone statue.

故事里有个咒语让石像活了起来。

有生命的、活的

Children often talk to toys as if they were animate.

小孩常把玩具当成有生命的东西跟它说话。

有生命的语言学

In this language, animate nouns take a different plural ending.

在这个语言中，有生命名词的复数字尾不同。