1 Inert substances do not produce a chemical reaction when another substance is added. -- 惰性的，不活潑的
inert gases 惰性氣體
Both produce a cold, inert substance good for dressing wounds.
The spirit has long since evaporated from this inert lump of flesh.
The material used for the suture should be strong, non absorbable and as inert as possible.
Windborne movement does not imply that migrants are merely inert particles at the mercy of the wind.
The old ceremonial centre, having been detached from its social and cultural milieu, became converted into an inert powerless 'object'.
Two constraints inert at the lexical level emerge as important agents at the postlexical level.
Moreover, there are two-tone languages in which high tone has been said to be phonologically inert.
Additionally, the capsule a patient receives is pharmacologically inert, but hardly inert with respect to its symbolic value and its power as a conditioned stimulus.
