Primates

The pronunciation /'praɪmeɪt/ is also used for meaning 2. 义项2亦读作 /'praɪmeɪt/。


1. N-COUNT 灵长类（动物）
   A primate is a member of the group of mammals which includes humans, monkeys, and apes.
   1. The woolly spider monkey is the largest primate in the Americas.
      绒毛蛛猴是美洲最大的灵长类动物。
2. N-COUNT 大主教；首席主教
   The Primate of a particular country or region is the most important priest in that country or region.
   1. ...the Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland.
      全爱尔兰天主教大主教

1. When it comes to researching intelligence in primates, chimpanzees and orang-utans get all the attention.
   当人们研究灵长类动物的智力水平的时候，所有的注意力都集中在黑猩猩和猩猩上。
2. The yellow fever virus is constantly present in mosquitos and non-human primates in some tropical areas of Africa and the Americas.
   黄热病病毒持续存在于非洲和美洲某些热带地区的蚊子和非人灵长类动物中。
3. This capacity is found in a very small number of species, including humans and some other primates.
   专家们还发现只有一小部分物种有这种能力，包括人类及一些其他灵长类动物。
4. PRIMATES apart, few mammals employ tools.
   除了灵长类动物，会使用工具的哺乳类动物屈指可数。
5. Scientists were able to successfully treat infected primates following the onset of disease symptoms.
   在试验中，科学家们已经成功地治疗了开始出现病毒症状的灵长类动物。
6. Primates, however, instinctively huddle in much smaller groups than humans because their brains are smaller.
   然而，灵长类动物本能地选择在一个小得多的群体中生活，因为它们的大脑比人类小。
7. Until now, babbling had been observed only in humans and a few primates, such as pygmy marmosets.
   到目前为止牙牙学语只在人类和一些灵长类动物中发现过。
8. For example, primates rely more on vision than olfaction; for rats, the opposite is true.
   例如灵长类比较依赖视觉，而不是嗅觉，而鼠类正相反。
9. ( zoology) at or near the hind end in quadrupeds or toward the spine in primates.
   （动物学）四足动物身上处于或者靠近后部的，或者灵长动物身上朝向脊骨的。
10. The branch of zoology that studies primates.
    动物学中研究灵长类动物的分支。
11. Laughter may even have evolved long before primates.
    笑甚至可能在灵长类出现很久以前就已经演化形成。
12. Nonhuman primates such as chimpanzees.
    例如黑猩猩等非人类灵长动物。
13. These primates used their hands for plucking fruit and leaves.
    这些灵长类动物用前肢采摘水果和树叶。
14. Any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet.
    灵长目中有胎盘的哺乳动物；视力好，手、脚灵活。
15. Genus of extinct primitive African Miocene primates; sometimes considered a subgenus of Dryopithecus.
    已灭绝的原始非洲中新世灵长类的一个属；有时被认为是森林古猿属的亚属。
16. Previous research in primates had suggested that expectation had little effect on how taste registers in the brain.
    以前对灵长类的研究显示，期望对大脑中的味觉记录几乎没有效果。
17. All primates are facially expressive.
    所有灵长类动物都有面部表情。
18. The study says increasing contact between humans and primates due to logging and deforestation raises the risk of transmission of new pathogens.
    研究报告称，由于伐木和滥伐森林，人类和灵长类动物之间的接触机会增多，增加了新的病原体传播的风险。
19. Human vision like that of other primates has evolved in an arboreal environment.
    人类的视觉，和其它灵长目动物的一样，是在丛林环境中进化出来的。
20. Another important trait that apes share with man and other primates is the opposable thumb.
    与人类和其他灵长目动物共有的另一个重要特征是，无尾猿有与其他手指相对的大拇指。
21. Also known as snow monkeys, Japanese macaques are the world's northernmost non-human primates.
    日本猕猴又称为雪猴，是人类以外生活在地球最北方的灵长类动物。
22. Extinct primates; lower Pliocene.
    上新世后期已灭绝的灵长类。
23. Among living and fossil primates, only anthropoids higher primates feed in such a manner.
    在生活和化石灵长类动物中，只有类人猿-高级灵长类动物-饲料以这种方式。
24. They have unusually large heads; they have unusually large bodies compared to other primates.
    他们通常有个大大的脑袋，同其他灵长类动物比起来，他们的身体也大得不一般。
25. The death was the result of chimpanzees, perhaps it is the closest human primates with a Branch.
    而黑猩猩之所以出现死亡病例，或许与它是灵长目内与人类最接近的一科有关。
26. The fossil, he says, bridges the evolutionary split between higher primates such as monkeys, apes, and humans and their more distant relatives such as lemurs.
    他说：这个化石是架起高等灵长类如猴、猿、人类和他们更远的亲戚如狐猴之间进化空缺的桥梁。
27. Fossil primates found in India.
    在印度发现的灵长类化石。
28. Vaccination programmes are now carried out in areas where outbreaks are observed in primates.
    在灵长类动物中已观察到疾病暴发流行的地区，疫苗接种计划正在实施。
29. The Ebola virus is deadly to both people and primates, such as gorillas and chimpanzees.
    埃博拉病毒对于人类和灵长类（例如大猩猩和黑猩猩）都是致命的，它会导致发热和严重的内出血。

noun

1. an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings

   Synonym:    order Primates