英汉词典

primitive 基本解释

adj.

原始的；发展水平低的；落后的；[生物学]原生的

n.

原始人；早期的艺术家（作品）；单纯的人：不世故的人；自学的艺术家

变形

复数：primitives

双语释义

adj.(形容词)原始的,早期的 of or at the earliest stage of the development简单的,粗糙的 simple; roughly made or donen.(名词)[C]文艺复兴以前的艺术家 painter or sculptor of the period before the Renaissance[C]原始人,原始事物 person or sth from an earlier period of history

英英释义

primitive[ 'primitiv ]

n.a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization

同义词：primitive person

a mathematical expression from which another expression is deriveda word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms

"`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"

adj.belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness

"primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"

同义词：cruderude

little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type

"primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"

同义词：archaic

used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies

"primitive societies"

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

primitive 相关例句

词汇搭配

用作形容词 (adj.)～+名词

• primitive accumulation原始积累
• primitive forest原始森林
• primitive society原始社会
• primitive verb动词原形

用作名词 (n.)形容词+～

• simple primitives简单的原始观念

词组短语

primitive religion原始宗教

primitive people原始人；原始民族

primitive culture原始文明

primitive type原始类型；原语类型

primitive accumulation of capital原始资本积累

primitive function原函数；基元功能

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同近义词辨析

raw, original, primitive

raw原始的

original最初的，独特的

primitive原始的

initial, original, primitive

initiala.开始的，最初的，强调处于事物的起始阶段，也可以指位于开头地方的。

My initial good opinion of him changed with time.时间长了我对他最初的好印象改变了。

originala.最初的，最早的；原版的，原物的。指按顺序是首位的，在此前不再有更为原始的同类的东西；也指原件的，原物的，非仿造的东西。

This is the original piano on which the composer created some of his greatest works.就是在这架钢琴上，这位作曲家创作出了他的一些伟大的作品。

primitivea.原始的，上古的，早期的，指处于人类生命或事物发展的早期阶段，也可以指自然的或简朴的。

Primitive tribes live in the Amazon River basin.原始部落居住在亚马逊河盆地。

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

1. Primitive peoples deified the sun.
   原始部落将太阳奉为神。
2. The constitution of a primitive society is not necessarily simple.
   原始社会的结构并不一定就是简单的。
3. They built a primitive shelter out of the tree trunks
   他们用一些树干建造了一个简陋的棚子。

用作名词(n.)

1. Primitive people often lived in caves.
   原始人常常住在山洞里。
2. 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。

权威例句

The problem of meaning in primitive languages
GENERAL CIRCULATION EXPERIMENTS WITH THE PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS
A primitive T cell-independent mechanism of intestinal mucosal IgA responses to commensal bacteria.
A Production of Amino Acids Under Possible Primitive Earth Conditions
Wnt-5A Augments Repopulating Capacity and Primitive Hematopoietic Development of Human Blood Stem Cells in vivo
GABA: a pioneer transmitter that excites immature neurons and generates primitive oscillations.
Smagorinsky, J.: General Circulation Experiments with the Primitive Equations. Monthly Weather Review 91, 99-165
Human acute myeloid leukemia is organized as a hierarchy that originates from a primitive hematopoietic cell.
Leukemic stem cells in childhood high-risk ALL/t(9;22) and t(4;11) are present in primitive lymphoid-restricted CD34+CD19- cells
Molecular and secretory profiles of human mesenchymal stromal cells and their abilities to maintain primitive hematopoietic progenit...