| 单词 | human |
| 释义 | human (hjuːmən ) Word forms: humans 1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B1+ Human means relating to or concerning people. ...the human body. ...human history. Synonyms: mortal, anthropoid, manlike 2. countable noun B1+ You can refer to people as humans, especially when you are comparing them with animals or machines. Its rate of growth was fast–much more like that of an ape than that of a human. Synonyms: human being, person, individual, body [informal] 3. adjective B1+ Human feelings, weaknesses, or errors are ones that are typical of humans rather than machines. ...an ever-growing risk of human error. We're not perfect. We're only human. Quotations: Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animalsThe Marriage of Figaro Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilizationTristes Tropiques Collocations: human imagination The curious connections between nature, human imagination and human artifice make delightful reading. Times, Sunday Times (2008) The language of official documents rarely catches the human imagination. Times, Sunday Times (2011) The reality is that badgers have always had a strong grip on human imagination. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Cave art is the earliest tangible evidence we have of the human imagination expressing itself. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Who indeed will set bounds to human ingenuity? Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715 (1995) It's both a tribute to human ingenuity and another place for quiet contemplation. Times, Sunday Times (2015) The technique is a tribute to human ingenuity. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Only human ingenuity can slow it down. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Set to work in the brain, these nano-robots would produce virtual realities so compelling that they would match the real thing, and enhance human intelligence. Times, Sunday Times Wasps are the first insects to exhibit a type of deductive reasoning, which for centuries was believed to be a hallmark of human intelligence. Times, Sunday Times All those bodies, and more, are allowed to authorise 'covert human intelligence sources'. Times, Sunday Times Lastly, human intelligence and creativity shaped the way we think about the world. Times, Sunday Times Human intelligence will be vital for accurate targeting and to minimise civilian casualties. Times, Sunday Times I'd wondered if this new technology would replace human interaction, but it's actually the opposite. Times,Sunday Times However, they cannot begin to replace genuine human interaction, or authentic experiences. Times, Sunday Times From a hankering for human interaction to contact of a more ethereal nature. Times, Sunday Times But why endure wearying human interaction when in the social media echo chamber you can stay ideologically pure. Times, Sunday Times Who fuzz over calm, helpful human interaction with their aggravating static. Times, Sunday Times Their ecosystems have often been disrupted and degraded by human intervention. Times,Sunday Times And we have not ruled with reserve: rates of extinction are 1000 times what they would be in the absence of human intervention. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In other words: human intervention was required for the continued propagation of these breeds. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It wouldn't have been there without human intervention. Times, Sunday Times Given the unknowable, uncontrollable consequences of human intervention, we might wish to take refuge in quietism. The Times Literary Supplement Fifty years of dishing out honours, kick-starting careers and contributing to the sum total of human knowledge - we'll drink to that. Times, Sunday Times Traditional connections between the tree and human knowledge are affirmed. Times,Sunday Times By 2002, a year's supply of the world's hard drives was able to store all human knowledge. Times, Sunday Times It will expand the sum of human knowledge and demonstrate the power of scientific inquiry. Times,Sunday Times Their meticulous written records — of roosting, feeding, courtship and nesting — kept them sane and added to human knowledge. Times, Sunday Times On top of that there is the ever-increasing medicalisation of the human mind. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Precisely because of its ultimacy, the divine cause of things is only barely intelligible to the human mind. The Times Literary Supplement (2018) Five years is a digestible chunk of future: the largest amount of time that the human mind can conveniently deal with. Times, Sunday Times (2007) The human mind is a wonderfully complex organ. Christianity Today (2000) One of the most mysterious phenomena in nature is the human mind itself. A Short Guide to Writing About Science (1995) Machines take no account of human needs, and you need not be working on a factory assembly line to feel as though you are. Coping with Stress at Work (1988) This intelligent human being has been killed to satisfy a destructive human need. Times, Sunday Times (2009) But one night Borries had had a human need to talk to his wife and a telephone operator hadn't known of the need for secrecy. SKORPION'S DEATH They are a protected species and outnumber the permanent human population. Times, Sunday Times (2018) The human population seemed an afterthought. Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic (1990) His position is that civilisation as we know it is doomed, with a likely crash in human population to about a billion, if no action is taken. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Habitat loss because of the increasing human population and growth in agriculture has also contributed to the decline, the report said. Times, Sunday Times (2016) The human population would have been between three and five hundred people at any single period. BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans (2003) The face of human progress wears bright ribbons in its hair and swings a bag of books. Times, Sunday Times (2014) I see you for what you are, an uncooperative Domer, one who cares little for our accomplishments and even less for human progress. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS She went on to herald the 'well-regulated free market [as] the greatest agent of collective human progress ever devised'. Times, Sunday Times (2018) So it's either that or a journey into the dark recesses of the human psyche. Times, Sunday Times However epic in scale, the pieces recognised what it was like to be trapped inside a peculiar human psyche. Times, Sunday Times Any faultline in the human psyche easier to fracture? Times, Sunday Times Why do these organised sounds have such radical, such fundamental effects on the human psyche? Times, Sunday Times Monsters lurk deep in the human psyche as well as the ocean. Times, Sunday Times The lack of human remains disproved this theory. Times,Sunday Times They see them as 'taxing' the organisation and have funny names for them - the 'sales prevention department', or 'human remains'. Times, Sunday Times Far from finding human remains in any of the sharks he caught, he said the strangest half-digested thing he found was 'a bunny rabbit'. Times, Sunday Times Workers armed with microphones and torches probed for cavities where there might be human remains. Times, Sunday Times If human remains were found in the same condition today, the police would immediately be notified and the tabloids would have a field day. Times, Sunday Times This issue is all about human rights, and there is no right on earth so deeply entrenched as the right to grumble. Times, Sunday Times (2012) We respect this human right to self-determination. Times, Sunday Times (2008) I should have thought that in England turtle doves were a basic human right, but if so we have been deprived of it. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Among other rights, it also guaranties the right to property as a human right. 2015, 'Right To Property: From Magna Carta To The European Convention On Human Rights', SEEU Review The fund blames the decline on intense ivory poaching and a rapid loss of habitat due to human settlement. Times, Sunday Times But he said human settlement was about more than housing. ST But shorelines around the world—especially in developed, temperate zones—are now severely wood impoverished compared to their condition before human settlement. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The result was the well-known and much-loved forms of city, town and village, with the landscape as it were crowned by the human settlement. Times, Sunday Times You find the first human settlement and get off the road. Times, Sunday Times The bling bonce was cast in platinum from a real 18th century human skull and covered in 8,601 gems. The Sun The man, whom police did not name, realized after the earth had been brushed aside that he had turned up a human skull. Globe and Mail Requests from indigenous groups for items ranging from feathered headdresses to human skulls are being agreed amid pressure from students to redress perceived historical injustices. Times,Sunday Times It contained a collection of 88 carved human figures, four carved whale figures, and sixteen human skulls. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Unseen, quietly, machine intelligence has gradually taken over the levers of human society. Times, Sunday Times (2015) In human society, the schemata can be laws, customs, myths, or institutions. The Scientist (2001) Surely it is equally important to understand the dynamics of human society. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Another technology with far-reaching effects on human society is knitting. Infinite in All Directions (1989) All human society is a hierarchy. The Broken God (1993) It's fun, it's stylish and it saves the human species. Times, Sunday Times It's a glimmer of what the world might look like after the now rather less improbable extinction of the human species. Times,Sunday Times My own observations of the human species strongly suggest otherwise. Times,Sunday Times And for those of the human species who are having a difficult love life, they might envy the harvestman spider — which reproduces solely through cloning. Times, Sunday Times They seek a science- and technology-driven path to resurrection, reincarnation, or immortality in order to achieve salvation for the human species. The Times Literary Supplement Most of these records testify more to the power of corporate marketing than the power of the human spirit. Times, Sunday Times We've been conned into thinking that slick production values and tidy musical wallpaper are more important than raw communication of the human spirit. The Sun Without pushing boundaries and taking risks there's no new knowledge, no discovery, no adventure, all the things that allow the human spirit to soar. Times, Sunday Times It's the human spirit - long may it be so. The Sun It reaches corners of the human spirit that plain, literal speech misses. Christianity Today Transmitting images of human suffering repetitiously can result in compassion fatigue. Times, Sunday Times (2016) This was organised criminality, a high street business making money at the cost of human suffering. Times, Sunday Times (2017) By replacing the faulty mitochondria in a mother's egg with those of a donor, we stand to save much human suffering. Times, Sunday Times (2014) It is a place of human suffering. Times, Sunday Times (2012) A fresh tidal wave of human suffering is on its way. The Sun (2016) Neither would it necessarily open the doors to an untrammelled open market in human tissue. Times, Sunday Times They were created in a medical first from collagen, the main building block for human tissue. The Sun These cells are in theory able to become almost any kind of human tissue. Times, Sunday Times Most work by interfering with metabolic pathways that are unique to bacteria - eg, penicillin weakens bacteria cell walls but has no effect on human tissue. Times, Sunday Times They found that the biggest barrier to progress was lack of access to standardised, high-quality human tissue. Times, Sunday Times It may be a sophisticated machine, but sometimes only the human touch will do. Times, Sunday Times Even in a digital world, there's still nothing quite like the human touch. Times, Sunday Times The human touch on that occasion was precious to me. Christianity Today Or indeed anybody who could give it a human touch. Times, Sunday Times Most of the engineers he came into contact with could not help but respond positively to his human touch. Times, Sunday Times The desire to be happy is a universal human trait. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Another human trait is to crave the new. Times, Sunday Times (2013) The history of many civilisations tells us that seeing patterns in the sky is an inherently human trait. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Though an almost universal human trait, crying is something of a mystery to science. Times, Sunday Times (2015) In 1997 a virulent strain appeared, able to infect the human nervous system. Times, Sunday Times The cercariae are very particular over where they develop, needing small, forested areas with streams to infect their human host. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Further the metacestodes recovered from infected liver were used to infect a human volunteer, whom they had given two years earlier. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Any mammal infected with rabies may behave unexpectedly, even aggressively, and could infect a human with rabies by biting. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The weaponized agent must be resistant to degradation by rain and ultraviolet radiation from sunlight, while retaining the ability to efficiently infect the human lung. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He may be the greatest living human being on the planet. The Sun After lots of further training they only bark if they smell a living human being. The Sun These chip organs contain living human cells and tiny air and fluid channels. Times, Sunday Times The researchers seeded the ghost hearts with living human stem cells, which successfully stuck to them and then, crucially, started turning into heart cells. Times, Sunday Times We hear of fallen forests, contaminated water, collapsing bridges and of infrastructure and even living human faces mouldering away. Times,Sunday Times Carbon-dating determined the mandible was between 34,000 and 36,000 years old, making it the oldest, directly dated modern human fossil. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This, he said, could potentially be linked to the evolution of the modern human brain. Times, Sunday Times When and where did modern human behaviour begin? Times, Sunday Times The team compared the taxonomic composition of the well-preserved microbes to those found in modern human mouths and found them very similar. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But it didn't seem to be a modern human. Times, Sunday Times It's not only human beings who appreciate perfumed plants; they are also excellent for encouraging wildlife. Times, Sunday Times You do your very best on the scene at the time, but you're only human; things come back to haunt you. Times,Sunday Times Moreover, only human beings, being capable of wonder, can be sensitive to the withdrawal of being in nihilism. The Times Literary Supplement The falls thundered just metres away, tiny fish nibbled at our feet, and we felt like the only human beings on the planet. Times, Sunday Times We are only human, but being human has infinite possibilities. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 人类的 Japanese: 人間の |
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