英语释义

1. any of several large primates including the orangutan, gorilla, chimpanzee, and bonobo that are either placed in the same family (Hominidae) as humans or are grouped in a separate family (Pongidae)

片语

pongo（非洲）类人猿；黑猩猩；士兵

troglodyte类人猿；隐居者；穴居人；老顽固

英汉例句

• The great apes are our closest relatives.

  类人猿是和我们最最亲密的亲戚。

• That is when orangutans and other great apes last had a common ancestor .

  那是猩猩和其他大猿猴共有一个祖先的最后时间段。

• Orangutans are native only to Indonesia and Malaysia. The endangered great apes have lost much of their habitat to deforestation.

  猩猩是印度尼西亚和马来西亚独有的本地物种。这种濒临灭绝的类人猿已经因森林砍伐而失去了大部分栖息地。

• All the great apes show some use of food processing.

  所有的类人猿都不同程度地加工食物。

• In Africa and southeast Asia, the great apes - along with many other mammals and birds - play a critical role in dispersing seeds.

  在非洲和东南亚，类人猿及其他多种哺乳动物和鸟类扮演了种子传播「使者」的角色。

• All of the other great apes have 24 pairs of chromosomes.

  而其他所有的类人猿都有24对染色体。

• A new recording of the death of an old female chimp shows those around her acted with quiet care, calling into question how much these great apes understand about death.

  最近在记录一头年老的母猩猩的死亡过程中，发现周围的猩猩的行为都变得很安静很小心，这令人很想弄明白这些了不起的猿猴对死亡知道多少。

• A courageous young British scientist lives among these great apes in Tanganyika and learns hitherto unknown details of their behavior.

  一位有胆识的年轻英国科学家在坦噶尼喀与黑猩猩生活在一起，发现了猩猩的一些行为的详细资料，而这些迄今为止都鲜为人知。

• Here's a look at how they responded, from the great apes to the cuttlefish.

  来看看从类人猿到乌贼是如何面对地震的。

• In fact, all the other great apes - even the gorillas - consume insects incidentally along with their normal diet of fruits, shoots, leaves and nuts.

  事实上，所有其他类人猿，甚至大猩猩，通常吃水果，枝，叶和坚果时会附带地吃昆虫。

• We must make sure that Redd + projects are located in biodiversity-rich areas where keystone species such as great apes are struggling to survive.

  我们必须确保Redd +项目落实到具有丰富的生物多样性的地区，因为这里类人猿等关键物种正生活在「水深火热」之中。

• PETA advocates the use of these alternatives and encourages entertainment-industry executives to pledge not to use great apes in their work.

  PETA主张使用这些代替手段，并鼓励娱乐业的高层许诺在工作中不使用大型猿类。