单词ardi
网络: 阿尔迪；阿迪；艾迪
Ardi"s feet were rigid enough to allow her to walk upright some of the time, but she still had a grasping big toe for use in climbing trees.
“阿蒂”的脚有足够力量支撑她不时直立行走一段时间，但她仍有一个善于攀爬的大脚趾。
Research on Ardi suggests that this ancestor didn"t look nearly as much like a modern chimpanzee as had been previously suspected.
研究告诉我们，我们的这个祖先“阿蒂”并不像先前所预测那样与现代黑猩猩长得很像。
This vantage point seemed like a good place to look back up the evolutionary road that led from Ardi to us.
这处有利地形看起来是个回溯人类进化道路的好地方，我们可以从现代人类倒退着回到阿迪时代。
That"s a popular misconception that has plagued evolutionary thought from the beginning, and one Ardi should bury, once and for all.
这种从起点开始的通俗误解已经祸害了进化论思想，从这个意义上讲，阿迪应该永远的被埋藏起来。
But this does not explain why Ardi"s species was bipedal (able to walk on two legs) while still living partly in the trees.
但这个说法不能解释为什么“阿蒂”所属的物种还没完全脱离树上生活时就属于两足动物（能用两条腿走路的动物）。
Lucy, also found in Africa, thrived a million years after Ardi and was of the more human-like genus Australopithecus.
同样在非洲出土的“露西”化石，年代比“阿蒂”晚100万年，属于与人类更相近的南方古猿。
"What finding Ardi allows us to do is to think of human evolution as three stages of assembly, " White said.
“阿迪的发现可以让我们将人类的进化史想象成装配的三个阶段，”怀特说。
With the discovery of Ardi (above), 3. 2-million-year-old fossil Lucy is no longer the oldest hominid skeleton known.
阿尔迪的发现（上图），让距今320万年的露西化石不再是已知最早的人类遗骨。
Alarmingly, Ardi is not alone as a young smoker.
令人忧虑的是，艾迪不是年幼烟民的个案。
Analysis of Ardi"s teeth points to a diet of figs and other fruit, leaves and small mammals.
通过对阿迪牙齿的分析表明阿迪平常所吃的食物是无花果以及其它水果、树叶和小型哺乳动物。