英:[praɪˈmiːvl]
美:[praɪˈmiːvl]
英:[praɪˈmiːvl]
美:[praɪˈmiːvl]
adj.
原始的
太古的,太初的
adv.
原始地,太古地,太初地
pri·me·val
praI mi vl
词根:prime
adj.prime 主要的;最好的;基本的
primitive 原始的,远古的;简单的,粗糙的
adv.prime 极好地
n.prime 初期;青年;精华;全盛时期
primitive 原始人
primer 初级读本;识字课本;原始物
primality 原始;首要;根本;素性
primitivism 原始主义;尚古主义;原始的风格
vi.prime 作准备
vt.prime 使准备好;填装
Adjective
1. having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state;
"aboriginal forests"
"primal eras before the appearance of life on earth"
"the forest primeval"
"primordial matter"
"primordial forms of life"
也称 primaeval,意为“属于第一时代的”,始见于1650年代,由 -al(1)和拉丁语 primaevus 组成,后者意为“年轻的,年少的”,源自 primus “第一”(参见 prime(形容词))和 aevum “一个时代”(源自 PIE 词根 *aiw- “生命力,生命; 长寿,永恒”)。相关词汇: Primevally。
primeve, in same sense, or its source, Late Latin prīmaevus "earliest, original, principal" (going back to Latin, "young, youthful," from prīmus "first, foremost, earliest" + -aevus, adjective derivative of aevum "age, lifetime") + -al >entry 1 — more at prime >entry 2, aye >entry 3
The first known use of primeval was in 1653
primitive1 of 2adjective
of or relating to the earliest age or period the primitive church
primitive forests
closely resembling an ancient ancestor
a primitive fish
belonging to or characteristic of an early stage of development
primitive tools
sometimes offensive of or relating to a people or culture that lacks a written language and advanced technologies
primitive societies
being or made by a self-taught artist
primitive2 of 2noun
something primitive : something basic or original
a member of a primitive people
primitive1 of 2adjective
of or relating to the earliest age or period the primitive church
primitive forests
closely resembling an ancient ancestor
a primitive fish
belonging to or characteristic of an early stage of development
primitive tools
sometimes offensive of or relating to a people or culture that lacks a written language and advanced technologies
primitive societies
being or made by a self-taught artist
primitive2 of 2noun
something primitive : something basic or original
a member of a primitive people
primitive1 of 2adjective
of or relating to the earliest age or period the primitive church
primitive forests
closely resembling an ancient ancestor
a primitive fish
belonging to or characteristic of an early stage of development
primitive tools
sometimes offensive of or relating to a people or culture that lacks a written language and advanced technologies
primitive societies
being or made by a self-taught artist
primitive2 of 2noun
something primitive : something basic or original
a member of a primitive people
primitive1 of 2adjective
of or relating to the earliest age or period the primitive church
primitive forests
closely resembling an ancient ancestor
a primitive fish
belonging to or characteristic of an early stage of development
primitive tools
sometimes offensive of or relating to a people or culture that lacks a written language and advanced technologies
primitive societies
being or made by a self-taught artist
primitive2 of 2noun
something primitive : something basic or original
a member of a primitive people
primingnoun
the explosive used in priming a charge
primer entry 2 sense 2
primevaladjective
belonging to the earliest time : primitive
1 Finally, the husband said, “This is the forest primeval.”
2 Its deep-set eyes may convey primeval wisdom or atavistic aggression, or both, depending on your mood and the impulse to anthropomorphize what you see.
3 The forests of the eastern United States are another puzzle: European settlers cut down 95 percent of the primeval woods, yet only four species of bird have gone extinct.
4 Robert Rauschenberg’s all-black costumes make the dancers look like creatures from a primeval swamp; the mixture of animalistic behavior and evident technical training is part of the work’s surreal comedy.
5 The early universe was filled with radiation and a plenum of matter, originally hydrogen and helium, formed from elementary particles in the dense primeval fireball.
6 And the fact that it all takes place in this wet, humid, swampy, primeval madness, of course you’re going to go there.
7 "The passions aroused by the issue were primeval."
8 That intrigued me - primeval landscape, as-yet undeveloped and not a word of it in the "Lonely Planet Guide."
这一切引起了我的兴趣:原始景观,未开发过,而且《LonelyPlanet旅游指南》上只字未提。
9 With the array of processed foods in its primeval pantry — Mountain Dew, Hot Pockets and Cheez-Its among them — you wonder why the filmmakers didn’t simply charge for product placement.
10 Canoe through primeval forests, watch rare synchronized fireflies or explore 25 miles of hiking trails in one of our least visited national parks.
11 More bizarre were the accompanying sounds: primeval bellows so loud and resonant they seemed to echo for miles.
12 She smiled. - 'This is the forest primeval,' he said.
——这里是原始之林,他说。
13 The landscape is uniquely primeval and rather undeveloped.
特有的原始景观,没开发过的。
14 For example, she said, the apparent hopefulness of “I Wish Your Wish” is really a way of getting spectators to articulate the most primeval of their anxieties.
15 Where else could aficionados of rock expect to hear in one place Sly and the Family Stone, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jefferson Airplane and those other lineal descendants of the primeval Beatles?
16 He was more connected perhaps to the primeval concepts and Earth powers.
他或许更多地连接到原始概念和地球力量上.
17 Tragedy controls the primeval force of music by presenting us with beautiful illusory forms of gods, demons, men and women, through whom apprehension is bearable and possible.
18 There’s often a gleaming thread of the uncanny running through French’s detective fiction: a mysterious incident in a primeval forest, an implausibly perfect resemblance between a detective and a murder victim.
19 They come in rippling shapes like the sea-washed bones of some primeval giant or, as with his Large Spindle Piece, horned like a rhino.
20 This is music that seems to animate a mythic power that is both primeval and preternaturally sophisticated.
4 早期的
primary primitive primal archaic incipient early oldtimey oldtimy lower pristine youthful infantile Early
5 原始
original rude primitive pristine primal primordial rudely prot- simple medieval elemental barbarian rudimentary uncivilized atavistic primary prime aboriginal origin savage archaic barbaric homely unadjusted ur- proto- raw initial fundamental embryo germinal antediluvian chthonic protopathic primo- nonliterate primigenial primogenial principial crude Germinal gutty paleo- pale- originality archi-
6 初期
early initial infant primitive pristine nascent incipient germinal inchoate primaeval incunabula fresh beginning youth prime childhood embryo infancy springtime Model T
8 原生的
9 自然的
natural organic virgin primitive spontaneous graceful careless unaffected negligent idiomatic unstudied unselfconscious
10 太古
antediluvian dateless primaeval the youth of the world time immemorial pristine immemorial time-immemorial old-world grey
11 最初
original primary aboriginal primitive inaugural pristine primal primordial incipient first alpha at the beginning
12 原始时代的
15 出于原始天性的
16 远古
time out of mind high ancient primitive immemorial antediluvian Noachian immemorable antiquity ancientry
17 远古的
ancient pristine primitive old antique prehistoric immemorial high antediluvian Noachian immemorable
18 早期
early primary primitive primal archaic incipient morning youth oldtimey oldtimy lower pristine youthful infantile earliness nonage springtime Early incunabula incipience early on
19 未经思考的
20 自然
natural organic virgin primitive spontaneous graceful careless unaffected negligent idiomatic unstudied unselfconscious automatically wild naturally
21 原始的
original rude primitive pristine primal primordial prot- primary wild prime raw medieval aboriginal Savage naive prehistoric barbaric barbarous unadjusted proto- Bush in the rough simple elemental barbarian rudimentary uncivilized atavistic savage archaic homely ur- virgin first-hand in the raw initial fundamental embryo germinal antediluvian chthonic protopathic nonliterate primigenial primogenial principial crude Germinal gutty archi-