Automaton

(noun.) a mechanism that can move automatically.

(noun.) someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way; 'only an automaton wouldn't have noticed'.

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• He seemed a mere automaton, galvanized into moving and speaking by the wayward Eustacia's will. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Mr. Arnold Bennett puts forth a rather curious hybrid when he advises us to treat ourselves as free agents and everyone else as an automaton. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• And now, the grand chain riveted to the last link, the discreet automaton ceased, and the sixteen, two and two, took a walk among the furniture. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Do you think I am an automaton? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Mr. St. John spoke almost like an automaton: himself only knew the effort it cost him thus to refuse. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• He might have been an Arab, or an automaton; he would have been like a red sandstone statue but for the motion of his arm with the dice-box. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The red automaton opposite lapsed into silence, nodded, and followed his example. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I am an automaton? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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