primate
常考释义
1.灵长类;灵长目动物any animal that belongs to the group of mammals that includes humans, apes and monkeys
2.大主教;总主教an archbishop (= a priest of very high rank in the Christian Church)
the Primate of all England(= the Archbishop of Canterbury)全英格兰主教长(坎特伯雷大主教)
He was found two hours later, near a football stadium, which could have been a fantastic hiding place for a large, hairy, grunting primate.
两小时之后,牠在一座足球场附近被找到了;对于一只毛茸茸、并会咕噜作响的大型灵长类动物来说,这座足球场倒是一个绝佳的藏身处。
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?
Ida was a lemur-like animal the size of a cat, and the hind legs shows that this primate was standing upright.
艾达长得有点像狐猴,但大小只和一只猫差不多,它的后肢构造说明它是一种直立行走的灵长类动物。
For now, rejected by her mother, the palm-size primate is making do with a warm quilt instead of her mum's belly and chest.
眼下,这只被妈妈抛弃的手掌大小的灵长目动物正将就着在一个温暖的被窝里而不是在她妈妈的胸怀里。
The account of his voyage was later translated into Greek and much later drawn upon to give a scientific name to the largest primate.
关于他远航的叙述后来被翻译成希腊语,又过了很久,人们从那里面得到了最大的灵长类动物的学名。
Or at least that's what primate researchers used to think.
至少研究灵长类的学者过去是这麽想。
Titi monkeys are one of the only species of primate that are monogamous, gibbons being one of the only other ones.
单配偶的灵长类动物只有两种,其中一种就是伶猴,另一种是长臂猿。
Genetic control is an important component of the general management of nonhuman primate colonies.
遗传学控制在非人灵长类动物人工繁殖种群诸多管理环节具有至关重要的作用。
The evolution of our primate species hardwires us with a fight or flight, fear or greed set of instinctive responses.
我们灵长类动物的进化结果,就是让我们拥有了一套战斗或逃跑、恐惧或贪婪的本能反应。
I never attempted to hide, and gradually the animals became used to the strange pale skinned primate that had invaded their territory.
我从来没有试图去躲藏,慢慢地动物们开始习惯了我这个肤色苍白的灵长类动物侵入它们的领地。
But the San Bruno Primate Sanctuary resembles a prison where the animals are locked up in cages.
但圣布鲁诺灵长类动物保护区就像一个动物关在笼子里的监狱。
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。
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。
Removing the Irish primate, who has said he will only go if the pope requests it, could signal that the era of cover-ups is finally over.
爱尔兰大主教曾说,只要教皇不要求,他不会下台。而现在,他的离职传递着这样一个信息:教会掩盖真相的日子终于一去不复返了。
Described as the "most complete fossil primate ever discovered, " the specimen is a juvenile female the size of a small monkey.
这块有史以来保存最完整的灵长目化石样本是一个幼年雌性的小型猴子。
The squirrel monkey is a small primate often chosen as pets due to the fact that they are more active during the day.
松鼠猴属小型灵长类动物,日间活跃,经常被视为宠物。
These Japanese macaques, otherwise known as snow monkeys, are frolicking in the waters of this primate sanctuary in Texas.
这些日本猕猴,也被称为雪猴,在德克萨斯的这个灵长类保护区的水域中嬉戏。
We are the only primate to give up the foot as a grasping organ.
我们是唯一放弃用脚来抓握东西的灵长类动物。
People, more than any other primate, depend on their fellow humans to figure out where to direct their attention.
与其他灵长类动物不同,人类更依赖于同伴来集中自己的注意。
But humans are more social than any other primate, living and moving in large social groups.
但是,人类在大的社会群体中生活和迁徙,比其他任何灵长类动物更具有社会性。
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