primates

英 [praɪˈmeɪtiːz]

美 [ˈpraɪˌmeɪts]

n.  灵长类; 灵长目动物; 大主教; 总主教
primate的复数

医学

柯林斯词典

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


• N-COUNT 灵长类（动物）
  Aprimateis 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。
• N-COUNT 大主教；首席主教
  The Primate ofa 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

英英释义

noun

• an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings
  Synonym:order Primates

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• All primates are facially expressive.
  所有灵长类动物都有面部表情。
• 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。
• 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。
• Nonhuman primates such as chimpanzees.
  例如黑猩猩等非人类灵长动物。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。