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- a large primate that lacks a tail, including the gorilla, chimpanzees, orang-utan, and gibbons无尾猿。参见GREAT APE, GIBBON.
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- Families Pongidae and Hylobatidae.猩猩科和长臂猿科。
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- used in names of macaque monkeys with short tails e.g. Barbary ape［用于猕猴的命名, 如Barbary ape］。
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- (in general use) any monkey（泛指）猴。
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- an unintelligent or clumsy person愚蠢（或拙笨）的人。
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- archaic an inferior imitator or mimic〈古〉蹩脚的模仿者, 学样者：
cunning is but the ape of wisdom.
狡诈只是对智慧的蹩脚模仿。
with obj.
- imitate the behaviour or manner of (someone or something), especially in an absurd or unthinking way（尤指荒谬地或不加深思地）模仿：
new architecture can respect the old without aping its style.
新建筑可以做到不模仿旧建筑风格而又取其之长。
短语
go ape （或〈粗俚, 主北美〉apeshit）
- informal go wild or out of one's mind〈非正式〉狂暴无礼; 变傻：
your kids will go ape over these frozen pops!
你的孩子听了这些毫无感情的流行音乐会变得狂暴无礼的。
派生词
ape-like
adjective词源
Old English apa, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch aap and German Affe.