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，分类学家创造了小猿这个分类来孤立可怜的长臂猿。他就像操场上被排挤的小孩。

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，而非洲没有接班人。

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.

英物学家G.H.弗雷不为《自然》杂志写的一篇文章里指出，哪里的分类学家都经常“缺少地位和资源”。

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

他对我说，整个非洲没有专门的分类学家。

Many of our listeners have probably heard that taxonomists are either lumpers or splitters.

许多听众可能已经听说分类学家要么是“合并派”，要么是“拆分派”。

A lot of marine ones turned up though providing work for an army of 80 taxonomists wielding the latest genetic barcoding equipment.

虽然有很多海洋生物出现，这为80名分类学家提供了工作，他们配备了最新的基因条形码设备。

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。