Chimpanzee
[tʃɪmpæn'ziː] or [,tʃɪmpæn'zi]
解釋/意思:
(n.) An african ape (Anthropithecus troglodytes or Troglodytes niger) which approaches more nearly to man, in most respects, than any other ape. When full grown, it is from three to four feet high.
校對:内尔
解釋/意思:
n. an African ape the highest of the anthropoid or more man-like apes belonging to the same genus as the gorilla.
手打:洛雷塔
例句/造句/用法:
- If so, it is certainly not chimpanzee nor close to the Apes, but decidedly hominid. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The creature was not a man, nor was it an arboreal ape like the chimpanzee. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Others, alive to this objection, say that man is descended from the common ancestor of the chimpanzee, the orang-utang, and the gorilla. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Miller, an American anthropologist, has made a very good comparison of it with a chimpanzee's jaw, and concludes that it is a chimpanzee's. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was only related to the true ancestor of man as the orang is related to the chimpanzee. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The one point in the Piltdown jaw itself against chimpanzee identification is the smooth, flat, worn surface of the molars. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
校對:特伦斯