bipedalism

常見(jiàn)例句

Bipedalism - walking on two feet - is one of the defining characteristics of being human, and scientists have debated for years how it came about.
用兩條腿走路是人類(lèi)的基本特征之一，多年來(lái)，科學(xué)家們?cè)谶@一特征的形成問(wèn)題上一直爭(zhēng)論不休。
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That proved bipedalism did not evolve on the savannah, but since hair does not fossilise, it is hard to establish when the hominids began to lose it.
這證明，兩足動(dòng)物的演化史并不是在大草原上進(jìn)行的。但是，由于毛發(fā)不會(huì)變成化石，因此很難確定原始人類(lèi)在什么時(shí)候開(kāi)始失去毛發(fā)。
It therefore sheds light on a longstanding debate: whether it was bipedalism or giving birth to babies with large heads that drove changes in the shape of the human pelvis.
這也使長(zhǎng)期的爭(zhēng)論變得清晰起來(lái)：是否這種物種是用兩只腳行走，或是它所生的后代頭比較大，使其骨盆發(fā)生了改變，和人類(lèi)的骨盆形狀一樣。