词汇 | monkey talk |
词源 | monkey talk. According to the National Geographic (Febru- ary 2002), scientists have observed Nigerian male putty-nose monkeys repeat nonhuman (words) to their mates and off- spring to warn them of predators nearby. “Many commonly re- peat pyow or hack for their warning words,” the scientists tell us. A sentence made of the word would be Pyow pyow, hack hack hack hack. (Let’s leave this place and go elsewhere.) |
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