primate
灵长类
常用释义
英音[ ˈpraɪmeɪt ]
美音[ ˈpraɪmeɪt ]
变形
复数:
primates
基本释义
- n. 灵长目动物(包括人、猴子等);大主教;首领
- adj. 灵长目动物的;大主教的
考试频率
六级
考频:近六年出现1次
- n.灵长目动物
例句
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1·The woolly spider monkey is the largest primate in the Americas.绒毛蛛猴是美洲最大的灵长目动物。来源: 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
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2·You won't ever find feathers on a mammal or gills on a primate.你在哺乳动物身上找不到羽毛,在灵长类动物身上找不到腮。
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3·In this case, the animals were lemurs –a type of primate related to monkeys and apes.在此项案例中,被实验的动物是狐猴——这是一种与猴子和猿有关的灵长目动物。
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4·The new study found that 70 percent of rodent and primate groups have species with an appendix.这项新的研究发现,70%的啮齿动物和灵长类动物的物种具有阑尾。
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5·It had a brain that might have been even smaller than that of a modern lemur, a primate with primitive traits.它的大脑甚至可能比具有原始特征的现代狐猴还要小。
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6·With our present data, we don't know what precisely the interactions were between a primate and a big carnivore.根据我们现有的数据,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作用是什么。
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7·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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8·Such advances have led to a drop in primate research.这些进展都使得灵长类研究的数量有所下降。
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9·The slow loris is the world's only poisonous primate.懒猴是世界上唯一有毒的灵长类动物。
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10·This is like the Archaeopteryx of primate evolution.有点像最早开始进化的始祖鸟。
同根词
词根:
primate
primacy
n
首位;卓越;大主教的职位
primates
n
灵长类
primality
n
原始;首要;根本;素性
primateship
n
大主教之职
primatology
n
[脊椎] 灵长类动物学