There were no specialized taxonomists in the whole of Africa, he told me.

他对我说，整个非洲没有专的分类学家。

It takes eight to ten years to train a taxonomist, but none are coming along in Africa.

培养一名分类学家要花8一l0年时间，而在非洲没有接班人。

That means taxonomists created the entire category of lesser ape just to single out the poor gibbon as the weird kid on the playground.

这就表示，分类学家创造了小这个分类来孤立可怜的长臂。他就像操场上被排挤的小孩。

Writing in the journal Nature last year, the British biologist G. H. Godfray noted that there is a chronic lack of prestige and resources for taxonomists everywhere.

英国植物学家G.H.戈弗雷不久前在为《自然》杂志写的一篇指出，哪的分类学家都经常“缺少地位和资源”。

The taxonomist sometimes overlooks whole species in favour of those groups currently under study, while the ecologist often cotlects only a limited number of specimens of each species, thus reducing their value for taxonomic investigations.

分类学家们有时会忽略整个物种而选择当时正在研究的那些物种群，而生态学家常常只收集每个物种有限的几个样本，因此就降低了分类研究的价值。