参考词典中primitive的常规释义:
基本释义
- n. 原始人,早期艺术家
a. 原始的,上古的,旧式的
词形变化
- 名 词:prim'i·tive·ness, prim'i·tiv'i·ty副 词:prim'i·tive·ly
参考例句
- The author tries to project how primitive men lived.
作者企图说明原始人是怎样生活的。 - This epic extolled the founder of this primitive tribe.
这部史诗歌颂了这个原始部落的创始人。 - The Teutonic languages derive from Primitive Germanic.
日耳曼语言起源于原始的日耳曼语。 - Living conditions in the camp were pretty primitive.
营地的生活条件甚为原始. - Primitive men lived in China about 1.7 million years ago.
大约170万年以前就有原始人居住在中国。
- The author tries to project how primitive men lived.
英英解释
3个名词解释
- a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
[同] primitive, primitive person - a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived show all ... ( 3 )
- a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
[例]- pick' is the primitive from which picket' is derived
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- belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
[同] crude, primitive, rude
[例]- the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man
- primitive movies of the 1890s
- primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains
- little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
[同] archaic, primitive
[例]- archaic forms of life
- primitive mammals
- the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe
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- used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
[例]- primitive societies
- of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style
[同] naive, primitive
[例]- primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking
less ...点击查看……- a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization