Though habilis stood no more than a metre tall,盡管能人站立身高不到1米

no more than不過； 僅僅

It will take no more than five days to read the book.

不到五天，我就會把這本書讀完。

Though they think it takes no more than three days to fulfill the mission, I believe it takes not

less than six days.

雖然他們認為完成這任務只需三天，但我卻認為至少需要六天。

and that set everything off in the director of modern humans.從而確定了進化成當代人類的主要演變趨勢

set off點燃；引起

Do be careful with those fireworks; the slightest spark could set them off.

這些煙火要格外小心，稍有火星就能引起爆炸。

Could eating meat really have caused us to evolve?難道真是食肉讓我們得以進化

cause to導致,造成,帶來

The bad weather conspire with some other unpleasant cause to ruin our picnic.

壞天氣加上其他一些不愉快原因使我們的野餐令人大為掃興。