That suggests that performance matters more than the old school tie.

Is it a white-tie affair?

这是个穿夜礼服的聚会吗？

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Einstein had strong ties with the university and was a regular guest-lecturer there.

爱因斯坦身前和这所大学保持着密切的联系,他曾出任该校的客座教授,定期来学校讲学.

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There were strong ties of friendship between the members of the society.

该团体的成员之间有牢固的友情.

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Now the most human-like australopithecine found to date is clarifying things-and staking a claim to be the species from which early humans evolved.

目前，迄今为止发现的与人类最为相似的南方古猿正逐渐解开这团迷雾——它阐明了早期人类是由哪个物种演化而来的。

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Some scientists believe that habilis is not a separate species and should be carried either as a later Australopithecine or an early Homo erectus.

一些科学家认为，能人是不是一个独立的物种，应当进行直立人无论是作为一个后来古猿或早期智人。

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But pinning down when precisely this took place, and which of the various australopithecine species were involved, has been challenging.

不过，要想确定确切的人类演化时间和哪些南方古猿物种参与了演化，仍是极具挑战性的课题。

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Tie back the rig tongs after each use and close the jaws.

每次用完大钳后,要栓回,并合上钳头钳框.

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The transition to humanity is generally agreed to have occurred between Australopithecus, a genus of small-brained, bipedal primates whose most famous member is a fossil nicknamed "Lucy," and the big-brained species Homo erectus.

人们普遍认为人类是由南方古猿和直立人之间的某个物种演化而来。南方古猿头部较小，属双足灵长类动物，其最有名的家族成员是一具被称做“露西”的化石，比较而言，直立人的头部就大多了。

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Chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids. An anthropoid ape of the family Pongidae, which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan.

非洲的小人猿，黑猩猩；较其他猩猩科类人猿有密切关系的一种南方古猿。

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Of or belonging to the hominid genus Australopithecus. Dart christened the fossil Australopithecus Africanus, meaning the "Southern African ape".

属于原始人类南方古猿。达特给化石命名为非洲南猿，意即南非类人猿。

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At both sites, teeth labelled variously as Australopithecus, H.erectus and Meganthropus are most likely to be the mystery ape instead.

这两个地点中被贴上了南方古猿、直立人和巨人标签的牙齿最可能属于神秘猿类。

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The period is an especially muddled one for palaeontology, being full of fragmentary fossils that are difficult to assign either to Homo or to Australopithecus.

古生物学上这段时期是一片模糊地带，这时期的化石凌乱琐碎，很难归类是直立猿人还是南方古猿。

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Scientists have named the new species Australopithecus deyiremeda. Researchers used a partial upper jaw and two lower jaws ( one recovered in two pieces), to describe the species.

科学家把这一新物种命名为Australopithecus deyiremeda（南猿近亲属），研究员利用一个上颌和两个下颌（下颌被发现时已是两半）来描述这一物种。

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To find out if species that were around millions of years before humans, such as Australopithecus, also weighed more, DeSilva analyzed Australopithecus skulls.

为了验证人类百万年前的祖先，比如南方古猿，（其新生儿）是否也（比其他灵长类动物）更重，波塞瓦对南方古猿颅骨进行了分析。

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The early hominid, which antedate the appearence of Australopithecus robustus in the archaeological record, engaged in simple tool behavior.

粗壮南猿以前的人科成员具有简单工具行为的能力。

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This week, bones from Australopithecus Sediba are unveiled at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

本周，南方古猿人的骨骼在约翰尼斯堡金山大学公布于众。

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Australopithecus was a group of early hominids that is reckoned to be the ancestral genus of Homo, to which modern man belongs.

南方古猿是早期原始人类的一部分，被认为是祖先人种，现代人就由此而来。

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Colleagues suggest that the toolmakers of Gona were Australopithecus, but Harris thinks not.

同行们认为戈纳石器的制造者是南猿，但哈里斯却不同意。

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The consensus had been that habilis was a transitional form between Australopithecus and Homo erectus.

人们一致认为“能人”是南方古猿和直立人之间的过渡物种。

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Genus to which Australopithecus boisei was formerly assigned.

博伊西南猿曾划为该属。

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