2.EMOTIONALsomeone who seems unable to feel emotions or to think about what they are doing 没有感情的人;机械行事的人;行尸走肉
Examples from the Corpus
automaton• I was what the materialists declared a human to be, an automaton.• Rising slowly like an automaton, she made her way over to the counter and picked up the receiver.• Servants were not allowed to have eyes that were alive, that spoke of a person and not an automaton.• It was the mechanicalaccuracy of an automaton.• As though I did not exist; as though it were an automaton who cleared brambles and countedmagpies.• He took my hand and led me away from the automaton.• The automaton no longer looked so innocent.
Originautomaton
(1600-1700)LatinGreek, from automatos; → AUTOMATIC1