英语释义

1. any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans

2. a type of animal that feeds milk to its young and that usually has hair or fur covering most of its skin

3. a warm-blooded animal (as a dog, mouse, bear, whale, or human being) with a backbone that feeds its young with milk produced by the mother and has skin usually more or less covered with hair

4. any of the higher vertebrate animals comprising the class Mammalia

片语

smalt mammals小型兽类

female mammals雌性哺乳动物

unguiculate mammals有爪哺乳类

herbivorous mammals及草食性动物

Mini Mammals小型哺乳动物

marine mammal海产哺乳动物

sea mammals海洋哺乳动物

pouch mammals有袋类哺乳动物

Marine Mammals海洋哺乳动物

fossil mammals哺乳动物化石

英汉例句

• Among the few survivors would have been animals living in water or burrowed in the ground like turtles, small mammals and crocodiles.

  只有水生生物和在地下掘穴而居的动物成为极少的幸存者，比如海龟、小型哺乳动物和鳄鱼等。

• When mammals captured the gene, they used it in the placenta to create a layer of fused cells through which mothers can send nutrients to their embryos.

  当哺乳动物捕获这个基因，利用它在胎盘产生一层融合细胞，通过这层细胞母亲能够将营养物质输送给她们的胚胎。

• It is one of only two mammals (the echidna is the other) that lay eggs.

  它是仅有的两种产蛋哺乳动物之一。

• Those interviewed spoke of a change in the range of species of mammals (moose and beaver) as well as a decrease in the number of some bird species (ptarmigan).

  这次采访中也提到，哺乳动物(麋鹿和海貍)的种群范围正在减小，同样某些鸟类的种群(如松鸡)的数量也在减少。

• Most speculatively, it might even imply a degree of intelligence—for the most intelligent mammals and birds are generally those that live in groups.

  最大胆的推断是，它甚至可能有一定程度的智力—因为最聪明的哺乳动物和鸟类一般都是群居性的。

• Some 95 percent of male mammals have little to no interaction with their children.

  约有95%的雄性哺乳动物很少或根本不和幼子交流。

• Numerous mammals in the wild are in decline, so this study only highlighted the most severe cases.

  大量野生哺乳动物的数量正在下降，所以这项研究只关注了最严重的案例。

• For thousands of years the native people living above the Arctic circle in Alaska have depended on hunting bowhead whales and other mammals for their subsistence.

  千百年来生活在住在阿拉斯加北极圈内的当地人依靠狩猎北极露脊鲸和其他哺乳动物生存。

• Humans and dolphins have the largest brains of all mammals and both have red blood cells that are exceptionally permeable to glucose and able to ferry large amounts of the sugar into the brain.

  在所有哺乳动物中，人类和海豚的脑最大。而且，人和海豚的血液中都有红细胞，特别利于葡萄糖通过，并能将大量的糖运送到脑部。

• It can infect mammals and birds, but scientists know little about its effects on its victims.

  它可以感染哺乳动物和禽类，但是科学家们对其影响受害者知之甚少。

• When we think of species we tend to think of mammals or birds, which are pretty well known.

  当提到物种时，我们总是会首先想到哺乳动物或鸟类这些我们都很了解的东西。

• Their thirst for hunting is blamed by some experts for the sudden disappearance of mammoths, mastodons and other large 「megafauna」 mammals from the continent.

  一些专家指责，这些克劳·维斯人对狩猎的渴望是猛犸象、乳齿象以及巨型哺乳动物群从大陆突然消失的原因。

• Birds and mammals invest in quality and not quantity, as opposed to fish and reptiles.

  鸟类和哺乳类靠质生存,而非以量取胜，这与鱼类和两栖类不同。

• I wanted to show that humans are like colonies of mammals living on the coast, but got fed up with beach umbrellas and unruly crowds.

  我想要表现的是人类就像海岸边生活的一群哺乳动物，不过这群动物已受够了遮阳伞和乱糟糟不守规矩的人群。

• More mammals have become extinct in that country over the last 200 years than in any other place in the world.

  在过去的200年前，这个国家中灭绝的哺乳动物物种比世界上的其他任何地方都要多。

• Whether it does so in mammals has yet to be established.

  至于哺乳动物是否这样做则暂无结论。

• The study shows that groups of mammals with relatively bigger brains tend to live in stable social groups.

  研究还显示，拥有相对大的脑的哺乳动物倾向于生活在稳定的社会群体中。

• The finding implies that their hosts, both mammals and birds, had also begun to flourish and speciate before the reign of the dinosaurs was over.

  这项发现也隐隐地证明虱子的哺乳类和鸟类宿主在恐龙统治结束之前已经开始繁盛并进化出新物种。

• However, what science told us back in 1984 was that human females certainly could never have a natural virgin birth, because of a genetic barrier in mammals called imprinting.

  然而1984年时候的科学去告诉我们，由于哺乳动物中存在被称作印记的基因障碍，所以说女性是绝不可能进行处子生育的。

• Humans, on the other hand, are among the rare mammals with the capacity to 「fall in love.」

  另一方面，人类属于稀有的、有能力恋爱的哺乳动物，我们是需要联姻关系的。