human beings
人类,人,人体,人的
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- : any individual of the genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo sapiens.
- : a person, especially as distinguished from other animals or as representing the human species: living conditions not fit for human beings; a very generous human being.
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Fossils suggest that human beings and apes shared a common ancestor as recently as 13 million years ago, and that whales, bats, and humans all shared parentage roughly 65 million years ago.
As decent human beings, we are supposed to be pleased by one another’s successes.
The experiments used one type of cotton mask and one type of medical mask in a laboratory, “not with human beings,” he said.
The crew and inhabitants of several starships led by the Galactica are the sole human beings stranded by the obliteration of their world at the hands of an artificial race that humans created to be slaves.
When you stop laughing and take a good look at what’s going on, you realize that the well-being of lots of non-famous, non-rich, non-publicity-seeking human beings is affected by this Wall Street madness.
In 2011 LGBT media outlet Queerty took the app to task for allegedly deleting accounts that made reference to being trans.
The editors, writers, and cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo were human beings with families, friends, and loved ones.
Why, some might be asking, am I being so harsh on their work so soon after they died?
“Having been a legislator and a mayor, I particularly enjoy being a chief executive,” he said.
However, more than 20 players on the ballot this year were probably worthy of being enshrined in Cooperstown.
He remembered something—the cherished pose of being a man plunged fathoms-deep in business.
Other things being equal, the volume of voice used measures the value that the mind puts upon the thought.