| 单词 | 猿人 |
| 释义 | 〔Lucy〕The skeletal remains of a female hominid,Australopithecus afarensis, found in Tanzania in 1974 and dated at about 3 million years old. Lucy is the most complete australopithecine skeleton yet discovered, being about 40 percent intact. 露西：远古女性人类的残骸南方古猿属猿人 ，1974年在坦桑尼亚被发现，距今约三百万年。露西是现今发现最完整的南方古猿骨骼，约40%完整 〔prosimian〕Latin sīmiī [pl. of] sīmius [ape] variant of sīmia * see simian 拉丁语 sīmiī sīmius的复数 [猿人] sīmia的变体 * 参见 simian〔prehominid〕Any of several extinct primates regarded as an immediate ancestor of the hominids.猿人：被认为是人类直接祖先的一种已灭绝的灵长目动物〔pithecanthropus〕An extinct primate postulated from bones found in Java in 1891 and originally designatedPithecanthropus erectus because it was thought to represent a species evolutionarily between apes and human beings. Pithecanthropus is now classified as Homo erectus. 爪哇猿人：一绝种的猿人，据1891年爪哇发现的骨头推测出，因为认为它可能属于一种介于猿与人之间的物种，所以早先将其认定为爪哇直立猿人 。现在这种猿人被归为 直立人 |
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