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ape

/eyp/US // eɪp //UK // (eɪp) //

猿猴,猿人,猿类,猿

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : Anthropology, Zoology. any member of the superfamily Hominoidea, the two extant branches of which are the lesser apes and the great apes.See also catarrhine.
    • : any primate except humans.
    • : an imitator; mimic.
    • : Informal. a big, ugly, clumsy person.
    • : Disparaging and Offensive.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    aped, ap·ing.

    • : to imitate; mimic: to ape another's style of writing.
adj.形容词 adjective
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    • : Slang. violently emotional: When she threatened to leave him, he went ape.extremely enthusiastic: They go ape over old rock music.We were all ape for the new movie trailer.

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Examples

  • Except in this novel, it’s almost all of the animals—monkeys, apes, big cats, bears, and wolves—that are disappearing.

  • We aren’t God’s final and most perfect creation, after all, but merely one more product of the same evolutionary process that gave rise to apes, lampreys, and limpets.

  • It turned out to be a roughly 13-million-year-old molar from a small-bodied ape related to modern gibbons.

  • After finding the Ramnagar molar in 2015, Gilbert’s team compared it with corresponding teeth of living and extinct apes and monkeys.

  • People would gather to watch the apes in Rwanda’s national parks.

  • His play The Hairy Ape, the agent noted, “could easily lend itself to radical propaganda.”

  • It was just another crazy Twitter account, with one exception: this ugly ape represented me, without my permission.

  • They found that 60 percent of plantations overlapped with great ape habitat across the entire area.

  • But a series of misunderstandings triggers an all-out war between man and ape, threatening the future of mankind.

  • Yup, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld compared President Obama to an ape.

  • Widder Morse wants to ape these well-to-do folks that live tother end o Whiffle Street.

  • In the cave of Naulette, near Dinant, Belgium, has been found the lower jaw of a man of decidedly ape-like aspect.

  • The lower jaws in both were heavy, while the woman was almost destitute of a chin—a marked ape-like characteristic.

  • This disposition the man-ape lost as its foot fitted itself to the surface of the ground.

  • It is quite within the limits of probability, for instance, that the man-ape at an early date became omnivorous in its diet.