英语释义

• any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae

• someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex

片语

Homo Deceptus直立人

homo-pref. 表示“相同”之意

Homo Machina人体工厂

Homo Academicvs学术人

vere Homo完全的人

Homo denisova丹尼索瓦人

Homo Vitruvianus维特鲁威人

homo erectus直立人

Homo neanderthalensis尼安德特人

Homo sapiens智人（现代人的学名）；人类

英汉例句

• homo erectus of a million years ago also likely had an air sac. but we don't – and nor did neanderthals.

  一百万年前的直立人很可能有气囊，但现在的我们没有，过去的尼安德特人也没有。

• it is now possible, too, to compare homo sapiens with his closest relative—not the living chimpanzee, with whom he parted company perhaps 5m years ago, but the extinct neanderthal, a true human.

  而现在对比现代人类与他的近亲-不是活着的黑猩猩，它们5百万年前就已经和我们分家了，而是灭绝的穴居人，真正的人类-也是可能的。

• some might think true grief is reserved for our fellow homo sapiens, but as a moving tribute from one british politician shows, the loss of a pet prompts real mourning.

  可能有些人认为，只有人类同伴的离世才值得我们哀悼，但一篇出自英国政治家之手、感人肺腑的悼词表明，宠物的离去也同样让人悲痛万分。

• her team is also interested in asking similar questions about human ancestors from east africa, as well as later species of hominin, such as homo erectus.

  她的团队对于回答有关人类祖先来自东非的类似问题也有兴趣，以及原始人类的人种问题，比如原始人类的直立行走。

• 「any energy inefficiencies in walking relative to later homo would have come from a small body size and wide body breadth, nothing more, 」 she says.

  「任何步行方面相对于后来人类的能效低下都来自于一个小体型和宽体宽，除此之外无他，」她说道。

• just who made the tools is unclear from the archaeological evidence alone, though our relative homo erectus is identified as the likely creator of at least the acheulian tools.

  尽管已经确定我们的近亲直立人至少是阿舍利工具可能的创造者，但仅凭考古学证据还无法确定是谁制造了这些工具。

• these aspects of human behaviour, while not conforming to the caricature of homo economicus, may be optimal strategies for human behaviour that have been honed by millennia of evolutionary pressure.

  人类行为的这些方面尽管不符合队经济人的描述，但对于经过千年进化压力磨砺的人类行为而言，或许是最理想的策略。

• without these certainties, homo sapiens would still be living in caves.

  没有这些确定性，智人会依然生活在洞穴中。

• the common ancestor is, however, too recent for the new species to be a remnant of the first human excursion from africa, the one that led to java man and peking man, now known as homo erectus.

  然而共同的祖先对于新人种又太现代，而不能作为来自非洲的人类首次远足的遗迹，那次远足产生了现在被称为直立人的爪哇猿人和北京猿人的祖先。

• the fossil evidence shows that neanderthals were restricted to europe and asia, whereas homo sapiens originated in africa.

  化石证据表明，尼安德特人只存在于欧洲和亚洲，而人类则起源于非洲。

• competing theories place them either as an archaic variant of our own species, homo sapiens, with whom we interbred, or as a separate species altogether.

  竞争理论将它们作为远古时我们的祖先--智人的一种变种，智人与他们杂交，或者是一个单独的物种。

• can homo sapiens do that?

  现代的人类能那样做么？

• but only homo sapiens has turned lying into an art. call it diplomacy, public relations or simple good manners: lying is one of the things that makes the world go round.

  不过只有人类将说谎发展成一种艺术，称谎言是策略、公共关系或单纯的礼貌：谎言正是维持地球运转的事物之一。

• that is a distinctive aspect of homo sapiens: we have a big brain.

  而这正是人类独具特色的一面：我们有一个硕大的大脑。

• there must have been some dinosaur dust left behind - how else to explain the homo sapiens you have become, greedy for everything, nothing in the whole world safe if you are here.

  一定还有某些恐龙微粒遗留下来——要不怎么解释由你变成的智人那么贪婪地索取一切，只要有你在，整个世界都不得安宁。

• a second question is how to manage the homo side of homo-robo relations.

  第二问题就是如何从人的角度出发处理好人-机关系。

• the office chair is no place for the descendants of homo erectus.

  办公室里的椅子，也不是很适合直立人的后代们。

• what is beyond doubt is that homo sapiens survived and turned to farming soon after the ice retreated, setting the stage for the rise of modern civilisation.

  智人幸存下来，并在冰层退后不久转向以耕种为生却是不容置疑的事实，那为现代文明的崛起奠定了基础。

• one possibility is that the malapa specimens represent a late stage of an enduring species that gave rise to homo at an earlier date.

  一种可能性是，马拉帕标本是某种存续下来的人属的晚期代表，而那个物种在更早的时候进化成了人属。