megafauna

megafauna是一個英語單詞，主要用作名詞。作名詞時意思是“巨型動物”。

基本介紹

• 外文名：megafauna
• 詞性：名詞
• 英式音標：[ˈmeɡəˌfɔːnə]
• 美式音標：[me'ɡæfɔːnə]

單詞釋義

英 [ˈmeɡəˌfɔːnə] 美 [me'ɡæfɔːnə]

[動] 巨型動物

短語搭配

Marine Megafauna Foundation 海洋巨型動物基金會

megafauna a 巨型動物群

Bios Megafauna 海外購正品

雙語例句

• They were the ancient Australian megafauna—huge animals of the Pleistocene epoch. 它們是古代澳大利亞的巨型動物——更新世時期的巨型動物。
• In 1991, she discovered megafauna bones directly adjacent to stone tools—a headline-making find. 1991年，她在石器附近發現了巨型動物的骨頭——這是頭條新聞。
• Actually, the proposal focuses on a particular subset of megafauna, the kind that lived during the Pleistocene epoch. 實際上，這個提案關注的是生活在更新世時期的巨型動物的一個特定子集。
• If that dating is accurate, it would mean humans and megafauna coexisted in Australia for something like 20,000 years. 如果那個日期是準確的，那就意味著人類和巨型動物在澳大利亞共存了大約2萬年。
• The more basic problem with Flannery's thesis is that there is no direct evidence that they killed any Australian megafauna. 弗蘭納里論文中更基本的問題是，沒有直接證據表明它們殺死了任何澳大利亞的巨型動物。
• What happened to Australia's megafauna, the giant animals that once existed across this enormous continent? 曾經生活在澳大利亞這片廣袤大陸上的巨型動物經歷了什麼？
• "What 'Cuddie Springs' demonstrates is that you have an extended overlap of humans and megafauna," Field says. “‘抱抱彈簧’所展現的是，你與人類和巨型動物存在著廣泛的共通之處。”菲爾德說。
• One is to help prevent the extinction of some endangered megafauna by providing new refuges, new habitats for them. 一個方法是通過提供新的避難所、新的棲息地來幫助防止一些瀕危巨型動物的滅絕。
• A big worry is that these transplanted megafauna might devastate plants and animals that are native to the western United States. 最讓人憂心的就是這些轉移過來的巨型動物可能會毀滅美國西部一些土生土長的動植物。
• Another example is the interaction of megafauna with local flora, in particular, plants that rely on animals to disperse their seeds. 另一個例子就是巨型動物和本地植物群的相互聯繫，尤其是那些僅依賴動物傳播種子的植物。
• The debate about megafauna pivots to a great degree on the techniques for dating old bones and the sediments in which they are buried. 關於巨型動物的爭論在很大程度上取決於確定古老骨骼和埋藏它們的沉積物年代的技術。
• Paleontologist Peter Murray has studied a rock painting in far northern Australia that shows what looks very much like a megafauna marsupial known as Palorchestes. 古生物學家彼得·默里在澳大利亞北部研究過一幅岩畫，畫中顯示的非常像是一種被叫做袋貘的巨型有袋動物。
• Take a select group of animals, megafauna from places like Africa and Asia, and introduce them into other ecosystems similar to their current homes, beginning in the United States. 從非洲和亞洲等地挑選一群巨型動物，把它們引入到與它們現在的家園類似的其他生態系統中，首先從美國開始。
• The disappearance of megafauna in America—mammoths, saber-toothed cats, giant sloths, among others—happened relatively soon after the arrival of human beings, about 13,000 years ago. 美洲巨型動物的消失——猛獁象、劍齒貓、巨型樹懶等等——發生在人類出現後不久，大約在一萬三千年前。
• As a way of repairing some of that damage, a group of conservation biologists has proposed an ambitious, or some might say, a radical plan, involving large vertebrates, or, megafauna. 一群自然保護生物學家提出了一個雄心勃勃的計畫——或者有人會說，這是一個激進的計畫——即，把大型脊椎動物或巨型動物包含在計畫中，作為修復部分損害的一種方法。
• In the years since the Pleistocene epoch, native species have adapted to the changing environmental there, plants, smaller animals, they have been evolving without megafauna for millennia. 在更新世以來的這些年裡，當地的物種已經適應了那裡不斷變化的環境，植物，小動物，它們已經在沒有巨型動物的情況下進化了幾千年。
• Nor were all the strange creatures charismatic, mammalian megafauna. 但是，並不是所有奇怪的物種都是像哺乳動物一樣是有靈性的。
• We'd know a whole lot about charismatic megafauna , and not very much about much else. 我們就只能了解那些有魅力的大群落，對其它的物種就不太了解了。
• Yellowstone is widely considered to be the finest megafauna wildlife habitat in the lower 48 states. 人們廣泛地認為黃石地區是美國本土48個州最好的巨型動物群的野生生物棲息地。
• The slow-moving behemoth had been crossing a volcanic plain 100,000 years ago, when megafauna still walked tall. 這種移動緩慢的龐然大物十萬年前曾穿越維多利亞平原，那時巨型動物仍然盛行在大陸上。
• "I was extremely surprised that local 'community memory' of the Yangtze megafauna is being lost so rapidly," Turvey says. “當地人對長江巨型動物的‘社區記憶’消失地如此之快，我對此感到非常震驚，”特維說。
• The climate may have changed due to a dramatic fall in atmospheric methane when these animals, or "megafauna", disappeared. 在這些動物，即“巨型土壤動物”消失以後，沼氣量的急劇下降可能造成了氣候的改變。
• The charismatic megafauna may get all the attention, but it's amoebas, nematodes and microbes that make up the bulk of life on Earth. 魅力十足的巨型動物可能抓住了所有人的眼球，但是變形蟲，線形蟲還有微生物才是地球上占大多數的生命。
• The charismatic megafauna suffering most from climate change may well be the wolverine—a vicious predator known for its uncanny strength and tenacity. 受氣候變化影響最大的動物種群可能是狼獾——一種以其神奇的力量和韌性聞名的殘暴的捕食者，現實中的金剛狼。
• Their thirst for hunting is blamed by some experts for the sudden disappearance of mammoths, mastodons and other large 'megafauna' mammals from the continent. 一些專家指責，這些克勞·維斯人對狩獵的渴望是猛獁象、乳齒象以及巨型哺乳動物群從大陸突然消失的原因。
• After the literary megafauna of the 1990s — like David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and Don DeLillo's Underworld — the novels of the aughts embraced quirkiness and uniqueness. 經歷了上世紀90年代的“大文學現象”後——例如大衛•福斯特•華萊士的《可笑至極》和唐里奧的《地下世界》——小說的一切又轉向了追求離奇和獨特。
• Forget polar bears or penguins. The charismatic megafauna suffering most from climate change may well be the wolverine-a vicious predator known for its uncanny strength and tenacity. 別老惦記著北極熊和企鵝了，狼獾才是氣候變暖中苦大仇深的標誌性大型動物。