He placed its age at two million years and dubbed it Australopithecus africanus, or southern ape man of Africa.

他推断它的生存时间距今有200万年左右，井将其明明为南方古猿非洲种，或者说“非洲南方猿人”。

Even a Scipio Africanus, the conqueror of Hannibal and darling of the Roman masses, had been content to fade into the woodwork once his job was done.

即使是非洲的征服者西庇阿他征服了汉尼拔，并在罗马民众中声望很高，但是也甘愿在完成工作后退隐从事木匠工作。

Roman troops, under the governance of  Scipio Africanus, gained ground little by little until finally forcing Hannibal's  surrender after the Battle of Zama in 202 BCE.

罗马军队在 Scipio Africanus 的统治下逐渐取得进展，直到在公元前 202 年的扎马战役后最终迫使汉尼拔投降。

The previous dating of the africanus and prometheus fossils at Sterkfontein and other sites in South Africa led to them being regarded as tangential to the main, east African story of human evolution.

之前在斯泰克方丹和南非其他地点发现的非洲人和普罗米修斯化石的年代，导致它们被认为与人类进化的主要东非故事无关。

The oldest known turtle ancestor, a creature called Eunotosaurus africanus, lived 260 million years ago and looked almost nothing like a modern turtle, but it had a set of broad, flat ribs that anchored the muscles of its powerful forearms.

已知的最古老的龟祖先，是一种叫做非洲正南龟的生物，它生活在 2.6 亿年前，看上去几乎不像现代龟，但它有一组固定其强大前臂肌肉的宽而扁平的肋骨。

Farther north, in Pretoria, the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History hosts the skull of Mrs Ples, a representative of Australopithecus africanus, cousin to prometheus, and one of the most famous hominin fossils yet found.

再往北，在比勒陀利亚，Ditsong 国家自然历史博物馆收藏着普莱斯夫人的头骨， 普莱斯夫人是非洲南方古猿的代表， 普罗米修斯的表亲， 也是迄今发现的最著名的古人类化石之一。