human being

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person; a large sapient, bipedal primate, with notably less hair than others of that order, of the species Homo sapiens.
    — He began to reflect that in a few Minutes he might possibly deprive a human Being of Life, or might lose his own.
  2. Any member of the genus Homo, including extinct species.
    — The first real human beings in China lived about 600,000 years ago. Fossils of Gigantopithecus, a Latin name for Giant Ape, were dug up at Lan-t'ien in the early 1960s. Though they looked a lot like apes, the Lan-t'ien people were among the first of our species to make tools.

词形变化

human beings plural

词源

From human (adjective) + being (noun).
The word human was originally an adjective, thus requiring a base noun.
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