英语词汇chimpanzee的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

chimpanzee. Chimpanzee, from the Bantu chimpanzee, meaning “mock man,” entered the English lexicon in 1738 when British explorers shipped the first of such animals to En- gland from Angola. The highly intelligent ape more closely resembles man than any of the other anthropoids. British zool- ogist Jane Goodall, who spent years in Africa studying chimps, says they don’t “have a language that can be compared with ours, but they do have a tremendous variety of calls, each one induced by a different emotion.” Studies of chimps raised in captivity show that they use a vocabulary of about two dozen “words” or utterances. One chimp, Viki, raised from birth by Keith and Cathy Hayes in Florida, after three years learned to speak three human words (papa, mamma, and cup), none of them very well—at the same age when a human child knows 200 or more words. See dolphin; parrot.

词汇	chimpanzee
词源	chimpanzee. Chimpanzee, from the Bantu chimpanzee, meaning “mock man,” entered the English lexicon in 1738 when British explorers shipped the first of such animals to En- gland from Angola. The highly intelligent ape more closely resembles man than any of the other anthropoids. British zool- ogist Jane Goodall, who spent years in Africa studying chimps, says they don’t “have a language that can be compared with ours, but they do have a tremendous variety of calls, each one induced by a different emotion.” Studies of chimps raised in captivity show that they use a vocabulary of about two dozen “words” or utterances. One chimp, Viki, raised from birth by Keith and Cathy Hayes in Florida, after three years learned to speak three human words (papa, mamma, and cup), none of them very well—at the same age when a human child knows 200 or more words. See dolphin; parrot.
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