英语释义

• any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet

• a senior clergyman and dignitary

片语

boss指挥，调遣；当…的领导

Primate Audition灵长类动物试听

Primate city[地理] 首位城市

primate e灵长目动物

all-important极重要的，至关紧要的

primate space灵长间隙

Primate Cities首要城市

catholic primate天主教大主教

captain指挥；率领

principal首长；校长；资本；当事人

Primate cognitionPrimate cognition is the study of the intellectual and behavioral skills of primates, particularly in the fields of psychology, behavioral biology, primatology, and anthropology.

leader(Leader)人名；(英)利德

primate lentiviruses灵长类慢病毒

chief首席的；主要的；主任的

英汉例句

• the result was thus the first primate embryos to have been cloned, as earlier reports of human cloning turned out to have been fraudulent.

  由于之前从人类身上获取干细胞的报道被证明是造假，所以这是第一次灵长类动物胚胎被克隆成功。

• if one of our chromosomes was formed by the fusion of two primate chromosomes, you know what it would have?

  如果我们的一条染色体是由两条灵长类染色体融合而来的话，猜猜它能有点什么？

• with our present data, we don「t know what precisely the interactions were between a primate and a big carnivore.

  根据现有的数据，我们无法确切了解灵长目动物与大型食肉动物之间的相互影响。

• what hurum did know was that ida came from a time when the primate lineage that led to monkeys, apes and humans split from another group of animals that became lemurs and lorises.

  但是胡鲁姆确实知道的是：伊达来自一个时代，在这个时代进化为猴、猿和人类的灵长类族系与另外一群进化为狐猴和懒猴的动物分离开来。

• her profound scientific discoveries—such as the discovery of toolmaking by chimpanzees—laid the foundation for all future primate studies.

  她那傲人的发现，例如黑猩猩可制作工具，为后来所有的灵长类动物研究奠定了基础。

• if so, it should be possible to find clues about how human language evolved from grunts or gestures by observing the communication of our close primate relatives.

  如果属实，那就应该有可能找到从观察模仿我们的灵长类近亲用叫声或手势交流而逐渐进化到人类语言过程的痕迹。

• it demonstrates that attention to elders’ voice finds its roots deep inside the primate lineage and leads new lines of questioning on human culture and language evolution.

  这证明，关注年长者的声音深深地根植于灵长类血统中，从而使人们对人类文化和语言进化产生了新质疑。

• scientists had believed that this birth position evolved in the primate ancestors of modern humans.

  科学家们一度以为这种生产姿势是从现代人类的灵长类祖先进化而来的。

• among primate and nonprimate species, the degree of polygyny highly correlates with the degree to which males of a species are larger than females.

  在各种灵长类和非灵长类的生物中，某个物种一夫多妻的程度跟它们雄性的体格比雌性大的程度密切相关。

• in fact, whether and how scientists should extrapolate from primate behavior is a fairly 「big debate, 」 says gumert.

  事实上，科学家是否已经如何从灵长类的行为中预测出什么是「很有争议的」，他说道。

• early humans may have evolved as prey animals rather than as predators, suggest the remains of our prehistoric primate ancestors that were devoured by hungry birds and carnivorous mammals.

  早期人类更多的是作为一个猎物，而不是猎人。新发现的史前灵长类祖先化石验证了这一点，他们经常被饑饿的鸟类和肉食哺乳动物吞食。

• durrell wildlife conservation trust, based in jersey in the channel islands, decided that their most photographed primate should turn the tables and become cameraman for the day.

  基于在英吉利海峡群岛的泽西岛上发生的这一幕，德雷尔野生生物保护信托基金决定，这位灵长类摄影高手应该当那天的摄影师。

• the project is being carried out by bournemouth university with the primate evolution and morphology group at the university of liverpool.

  伯恩茅斯大学与利物浦大学灵长类进化和形态学研究组共同进行这个项目。

• right before our eyes is exquisite detail of what the little primate looked like.

  展现在我们眼前的是这只小灵长类动物样貌的完美细节。

• the next step, rekers said, is to study other primate species, such as bonobos.

  下一步，雷卡斯将研究其他灵长类的物种，如巴诺布猿。

• and crucially, she lived at around the time that a separate primate line, the one containing the lemurs and less well-known groups such as the lorises and bush babies, split off from the rest.

  更为关键的是，她生活的时期，正是一个灵长类分支从其他灵长类动物之分离开来的时候，那个分支包括狐猴，以及知名度不高的物种，如懒猴及丛猴。

• human babies weigh more at birth than the newborns of any other primate species, and so it is probably with the earliest human ancestors.

  最新研究显示，人类婴儿出生时比其他任何灵长类物种的新生儿都要重，人类的原始祖先很有可能亦是如此。

• the top-level international research team, who have studied her in secret for the past two years, believe she is the most complete and best preserved primate fossil ever uncovered.

  过去的两年里，一支最高水準的国际研究队伍一直对她进行秘密研究，他们相信她是迄今为止所发现的最完整，保存得最完美的灵长类化石。

• humans aren」t the only primate with nk cells.

  人类不是唯一拥有nk细胞的灵长类。

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cardinal主要的，基本的；深红色的

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monkey胡闹；捣蛋