primitive men 原始人。 the primitive mode of life 原始生活方式。 a primitive mode of dressing 朴素的服装。 primitive colours 原色。 the primitive chord 【音乐】基础和音。 primitive rocks 原成岩。 primitive soil 生荒地。 n. 1.原(始)人;原始事物。 2.【语法】原词,根词;【数学】本原,原始。 3.早期艺术家(作品);模仿早期风格的艺术家;原始派艺术家。 4.〔P-〕文艺复兴期前的画家(作品);自学而成的艺术家(作品);风格质朴的艺术家。 5.〔P-〕〔英国〕原始卫理公会派教徒 (= P- Methodist)。 adv. -ly ,-ness n.
The women were alien and primitive creatures with ugly desires she could not bear to think about . 这些妇女都是些奇形怪状的原始人,她们那些龌龊的欲念,她想也不忍去想。
Development economics embraces the whole transition from the poor primitive to modern industrial societies . 发展经济学抓住了贫穷的原始社会到现代工业社会这一整个的过渡时期。
There is no necessity to take into consideration the basis which the people will need to continue a most primitive existence . 没有必要考虑这个民族维持最原始的生存的基础问题。
His experiments were conducted in his home, using very primitive improvised equipment and small experimental animals . 他的研究工作是在家时进行的,试验用的是小动物,试验设备十分简陋。
Her look of indestructible youthfulness made her seem neither hard nor dull, but only primitive and pure . 她那永不消逝的春意秋波,使她看上去不是僵硬的,也不是干巴巴的,反倒显得质朴而纯净。
Wardlaw reproduced to the same scale photographs of the vegetative shoot apex of many primitive and advanced land plants . 沃德劳以同样的放大倍数复制了许多原始的和进化的陆生植物营养茎尖的照片。
We were simply glad to be back in primitive africa again and in an atmosphere where the unexpected might just possibly happen . 我们只是高兴能再次回到原始的非洲,回到一个或许真会出现意外的环境中。
It must be remembered, in extenuation of this primitive young woman, that she held these opinions in an age of general darkness . 我们必须为这些幼稚无知的姑娘开脱一下,她是在一个普遍蒙昧的时代就持有这些看法了。
About, 5, 000 b.c., or earlier, the traces of these primitive peoples ceased, and the true egyptians appeared on the scene . 大约在公元前五千年或更早一些时候,这些原始民族的遗迹消失了,而真正的埃及人登上了舞台。
During the ages when the babylonians, egyptians, greeks and romans flourished, the area now called europe possessed a primitive civilization . 在巴比伦、埃及、希腊和罗马人各自盛极一时年代里,今日的欧洲只有原始文明。
a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick'' is the primitive from which `picket'' is derived"
a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization 同义词:primitive person,
used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies; "primitive societies"
little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type; "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe" 同义词:archaic,
belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains" 同义词:crude, rude,
of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style; "primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking" 同义词:naive,