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anthropoid
Any of several large, tailless apes.
🌱The chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, gibbons, and bonobos are all classified as anthropoids. 🌳With its suffix -oid, meaning "resembling," the word anthropoid means literally "resembling a human being." Anthropoid apes are so called because they resemble humans more closely than do other primates such as monkeys and lemurs. Some even spend a good deal of time walking on their hind legs. Anthropoids are, of course, highly intelligent （though maybe no more so than many monkeys）, and some of them use sticks and stones as tools. （But if you call someone an anthropoid, you're probably not complimenting his intelligence.） anthropology The science and study of human beings.
🌱By studying the cultures of primitive peoples, anthropology may give us a better understanding of our own culture. 🌳Anthropologists, those who study the whys and wherefores of human existence, today look not only at the tribes of the Amazon but also at the neighborhoods of Brooklyn or Santa Monica. Every group and every culture now seems to be possible material for anthropology. Some anthropologists specialize in the study of human evolution, some study human language, some study archaeology, and some study human culture through the ages. Unlike historians, they tend to focus less on what has been recorded in writings than on what can be discovered in other ways. misanthropic Hating or distrusting humans.
🌱Few characters in literature are more misanthropic than Ebenezer Scrooge, who cares for nothing but money. 🌳Jonathan Swift was famous for the misanthropy of works such as Gulliver's Travels which make fun of all kinds of human foolishness. But in spite of his apparent misanthropic attitude, he spent a third of his income on founding a hospital and another third on other charities—certainly not the acts of a true misanthrope.Today we often use synonyms such as cynic and grinch for misanthropic types—while hoping we don't meet too many of them. lycanthropy 1、 A delusion that one has become a wolf.
2、 Transformation into a wolf through witchcraft or magic.
🌱The local farmers avoided the residents of the village in the next valley, who had long been suspected of grave robbing and lycanthropy. 🌳The Greek word for "wolf," lykos, combines with the anthro- root to produce the meaning "wolfman." In European folklore, dating back to the ancient Greeks and Romans, there are men who change into wolves at night and devour animals, people, or graveyard corpses before returning to human form at dawn. Werewolves, or lycanthropes, may be evil and possessed by the devil, or may instead be the victims of a werewolf bite and thereby cursed to change into wolf form at the full moon. The werewolf's evil intention is shown by its eating only part of the animal or corpse, rather than all of it like a truly hungry wolf.
🌱The chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, gibbons, and bonobos are all classified as anthropoids. 🌳With its suffix -oid, meaning "resembling," the word anthropoid means literally "resembling a human being." Anthropoid apes are so called because they resemble humans more closely than do other primates such as monkeys and lemurs. Some even spend a good deal of time walking on their hind legs. Anthropoids are, of course, highly intelligent （though maybe no more so than many monkeys）, and some of them use sticks and stones as tools. （But if you call someone an anthropoid, you're probably not complimenting his intelligence.） anthropology The science and study of human beings.
🌱By studying the cultures of primitive peoples, anthropology may give us a better understanding of our own culture. 🌳Anthropologists, those who study the whys and wherefores of human existence, today look not only at the tribes of the Amazon but also at the neighborhoods of Brooklyn or Santa Monica. Every group and every culture now seems to be possible material for anthropology. Some anthropologists specialize in the study of human evolution, some study human language, some study archaeology, and some study human culture through the ages. Unlike historians, they tend to focus less on what has been recorded in writings than on what can be discovered in other ways. misanthropic Hating or distrusting humans.
🌱Few characters in literature are more misanthropic than Ebenezer Scrooge, who cares for nothing but money. 🌳Jonathan Swift was famous for the misanthropy of works such as Gulliver's Travels which make fun of all kinds of human foolishness. But in spite of his apparent misanthropic attitude, he spent a third of his income on founding a hospital and another third on other charities—certainly not the acts of a true misanthrope.Today we often use synonyms such as cynic and grinch for misanthropic types—while hoping we don't meet too many of them. lycanthropy 1、 A delusion that one has become a wolf.
2、 Transformation into a wolf through witchcraft or magic.
🌱The local farmers avoided the residents of the village in the next valley, who had long been suspected of grave robbing and lycanthropy. 🌳The Greek word for "wolf," lykos, combines with the anthro- root to produce the meaning "wolfman." In European folklore, dating back to the ancient Greeks and Romans, there are men who change into wolves at night and devour animals, people, or graveyard corpses before returning to human form at dawn. Werewolves, or lycanthropes, may be evil and possessed by the devil, or may instead be the victims of a werewolf bite and thereby cursed to change into wolf form at the full moon. The werewolf's evil intention is shown by its eating only part of the animal or corpse, rather than all of it like a truly hungry wolf.
ANTHROP comes from the Greek word for "human being." So an anthropomorphic god, such as Zeus or Athena, basically looks and acts like a human. And in Aesop's fables and many animated cartoons, animals are usually anthropomorphized and behave exactly like furry, four-legged human beings.🌸