transhuman
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
名词 n.
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An enhanced human:; An individual having characteristics transitional between a human and a posthuman species.
— In the same way that a transhuman is a transitional human, Christians are also humans in transition, living in a kingdom that has come and yet is coming, “strangers in the world.”
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An enhanced human:; An individual of a posthuman species.
— On the coffee table rested a sculpture of the fundamental, recombinant DNA of the present transhumans.
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A being that transcends humanity; a superhuman being.
— I bet every critter that thinks it thinks—even the transhumans—worry about how to do right for themselves and the ones they love.
形容词 adj.
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More than human; superhuman.
— Turning fallible human foot soldiers into transhuman machines who need neither sleep nor food, and are incapable of resistance and independent thought, is a Napoleonic dream .
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Related to transhumanism.
— I believe that this is important, because taken in isolation the kind of enhancements portrayed by transhuman philosophers might seem relatively innocuous.
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Involving something beyond the merely human; transcending human limitations or boundaries.
— Near-synonym: posthuman (sometimes synonymous)
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词源 1
From trans- + human, also attested as trans-human in the 1950s. Attributed to Teilhard de Chardin, as French trans-humain (noun, sometimes capitalised as (le) Trans-humain), who used it alongside ultra-humain (“the ultra-human”). As a countable English noun (plural transhumans) introduced by F. M. Esfandiary in the 1960s (here trans- is short for transitional).
词源 2
From trans- + human, also attested as trans-human in the 1950s. Attributed to Teilhard de Chardin, as French trans-humain (noun, sometimes capitalised as (le) Trans-humain), who used it alongside ultra-humain (“the ultra-human”). As a countable English noun (plural transhumans) introduced by F. M. Esfandiary in the 1960s (here trans- is short for transitional).
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