英语释义

• of or belonging to the hominid genus Australopithecus

• any of several extinct humanlike small-brained bipedal primates of the genus Australopithecus; from 1 to 4 million years ago

片语

robust australopithecine粗壮型南方古猿

Lucy the australopithecine古猿露西

Chad australopithecine查德南猿

the gracile Australopithecine南方古猿非洲种

gracile australopithecine或称纤细型南方古猿

英汉例句

• 「wow!」 says nina jablonski, an anthropologist at pennsylvania state university and author of the book, skin: a natural history. 「the possibility of preserved australopithecine skin is massively cool.」

  来自宾夕法尼亚大学的人类学家、《皮肤自然史》（skin:anaturalhistory）的作者尼娜·亚布隆斯基（nina jablonski）感慨说：「存在留存下来的更新纪灵长类动物皮肤的可能性真是太不可思议了。」

• perhaps 20 or more hominids (not all of them ourancestors) fill the gap between lucy the australopithecine and modernhumans.

  现代人和古露西猿人（lucytheaustralopithecine）之间的空白则有大约20多种原始人来填补（并非所有都是我们的最先）。

• and that, says strait, suggests that simplistic ideas about australopithecine diets, based on tooth and jaw size, and why they went extinct, need to be reevaluated.

  斯特雷特还说，根据牙齿和颚的大小提出的关于南方古猿日常饮食以及它们为什么灭绝的过分简单的想法需要重新评估。

• now the most human-like australopithecine found to date is clarifying things—and staking a claim to be the species from which early humans evolved.

  而目前发现的与人类长得最像的南猿，让一切变得清晰起来，同时，它也被确定是后来进化为早期人类的物种。

• some scientists believe that habilis is not a separate species and should be carried either as a later australopithecine or an early homo erectus .

  一些科学家认为，能人是不是一个独立的物种，应当进行直立人无论是作为一个后来古猿或早期智人 。

• now the most human-like australopithecine found to date is clarifying things—and staking a claim to be the species from which early humans evolved.

  目前，迄今为止发现的与人类最为相似的南方古猿正逐渐解开这团迷雾——它阐明了早期人类是由哪个物种演化而来的。