• 基础释义
  • 例句
  • 同义词
  • 六级真题
  • 柯林斯词典释义
  • 英汉词典释义
  • 英英词典释义
  • 行业词典释义
例句
同义词
英语六级真题
    McCartney found that EMI's (百代唱片) contractual clauses made it prohibitively expensive to follow suit, and the Beatles had to make do with the primitive technology of Abbey Road.
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
  • ADJ-GRADED
    原始的;远古的;未开化的
    Primitive means belonging to a society in which people live in a very simple way, usually without industries or a writing system.
    例句
    ...studies of primitive societies. 对原始社会的研究 ...primitive tribes. 原始部落
  • ADJ-GRADED
    (动植物)原始的,低等的,进化初期的
    Primitive means belonging to a very early period in the development of an animal or plant.
    例句
    ...primitive whales... 原始鲸 Primitive humans needed to be able to react like this to escape from dangerous animals... 原始人必须要能作出这样的反应以逃避危险的动物。
  • ADJ-GRADED
    古老的;简陋的
    If you describe something as primitive, you mean that it is very simple in style or very old-fashioned.
    例句
    The conditions are primitive by any standards... 无论用什么标准来衡量,其条件都很简陋。 The primitive surgery of those days left him virtually deaf in one ear... 那时候简陋的外科手术让他一只耳朵几乎失聪。
英汉词典释义
  • adj.
    原始的, 早期的
    Primitive man made himself primitive tools from stones and bones. 原始人用石块和骨头做原始的工具。
    发展水平低的;落后的
    He made a primitive boat out of some pieces of wood. 他用几块木头做了艘简易的小船。
  • n.
    文艺复兴前的画家或雕刻家; 早期的艺术家
    He was an Italian primitive. 他是一位意大利早期的艺术家。
    原始人, 原始事物
    The anthropology of the future will not be concerned above all else with primitives. 未来的人类学不会以原始人为主要的研究对象。
英英词典释义
  • Noun
    1. a person who belongs to early stage of civilization
    2. a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
    3. a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms;
    "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"
  • Adjective
    1. 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"
    2. 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"
    3. used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies;
    "primitive societies"
    4. 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"
行业词典
  • 医学: 原始的,初级的:在时间上为第一的;以简单或早期形式存在的;显示很少有进化的;