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hominids 英hɒmɪ'nɪdz美hɒmɪ'nɪdz COCA⁴⁵⁰⁶⁷BNC⁴⁹⁹⁶²Economist⁵³⁵⁸¹⁺¹ 基本英英例句 人种,人科原型hominid的复数 名词 hominid: a primate of the family Hominidae The hominids, in contrast, are only newly African, our ancestors having arrived on the continent from Eurasia a mere ten million years ago. 相比较,原始人到非洲要晚的多,我们的祖先只是在一千万年前才从欧亚大陆来到这里。 yeeyan We are, of course, related to early primates too, not only the much‘ younger’ hominids found in Africa. 当然,相对于早期灵长类,以及在非洲所发现的原始人类化石,人类则要‘年轻’许多。 yeeyan We’re drawn to the idea that we are the end point, the pinnacle not only of the hominids but of all animal life. 我们都喜欢这样的观点:我们是进化的顶峰,不仅是原始人进化的顶峰,也是所有生命进化的顶峰。 yeeyan “ By the time hominids walked through the ash at Laetoli, they walked more like us than like apes, ” Raichlen says. “到原始人走过拉多里火山灰之时,他们走路的样子已经更类似于我们而非猿类,”瑞奇兰说道。 yeeyan “ Sometimes one sees writers just standing before it, like early hominids in front of a monolith,” said Nick Denton, Gawker Media’s founder. “有时有人会注意到作者们只是站在它面前,犹如原始人类站在巨石前一样,”高科传媒的创始人尼克.丹顿说。 yeeyan “ Somewhat ironically, this then raises the question of whether modern human chewing damage is actually the best analog for these early hominids,” Egeland added. “讽刺的是,这又引起了现代人咬噬留下的伤痕是否确实模拟出早期人类的问题,” Egeland补充道。 yeeyan Australopithecus was a group of early hominids that is reckoned to be the ancestral genus of Homo, to which modern man belongs. 南方古猿是早期原始人类的一部分,被认为是祖先人种,现代人就由此而来。 ecocn Everywhere the scientists looked, they found a similarly bizarre mosaic of traits: some very primitive, others advanced and exclusive to hominids. 科学家们检查了所有该检查的地方,又发现一些相类似的奇特混合特征:某些骨骼非常原始,而另外一些骨骼则更为高级且为人类所特有。 yeeyan First discovered in 1891 in Indonesia, Homo erectus is one of the best known ancient hominids. 自1891年在印度尼西亚被首次发现以来,直立人已经成为最著名的古人类之一。 yeeyan Forty years ago, for example, palaeontologists thought that hominids, the group of primates that includes modern humans, had been distinct from other apes for some25m years. 比如四十年前,古生物学家就认为原始人包括现代人在内的灵长类群体与大约2500万年前的其它类人猿明显不同。 ecocn If so, walking may have evolved in leaps and bounds, rather than gradually, among ancient hominids. 果真如此,古代原始人的行走进化过程很可能是一日千里,而非循序渐进。 yeeyan John Thorbjarnarson knew he could not end men's fear of crocodilians, hard-wired since hominids first ventured down from the trees into swamps that seethed with them. 约翰•瑟布贾纳森知道,自人类首次冒险从树上直接落入鳄鱼渲腾的沼泽中以来,他不可能终结人们对鳄鱼的恐惧。 topsage Millions of years ago, this ancestor split into two separate lineages, eventually becoming apes like chimps and gorillas and hominids, the precursor to human beings. 几百万年前,这种祖先分化成两种不同的种类,一种最终变成猿类像黑猩猩和大猩猩,另一种是原始人类,即人类的先驱。 yeeyan No one knows precisely how hominids before Lucy’s time walked. 没有人清楚地知道露西时代之前的原始人如何行走。 yeeyan The other branch— hominids with increasingly smaller back teeth, more lightly built, long-legged bodies, and increasingly larger brains— led to us. 而另外一支则渐渐发展出较小的臼齿,身材更为轻盈,腿长且脑容积越来越大,这一支古人类最终进化成现代人。 yeeyan The hominids— our ancestors and their close relations— were adapted to living in trees. 原始人类,我们的祖先和他们的近亲,已经适应了在树上生活。 yeeyan Why didn’t they outthink the smaller- brained hominids like ourselves and spread across the planet? 他们为什么没有超越我们小脑袋的祖先并散布在整个地球上? yeeyan |