primitive

英['prɪmətɪv] 美['prɪmətɪv]
  • adj. 原始的;简陋的
  • n. 文艺复兴前的艺术家;原始人
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星级词汇:
  • prim adj.规规矩矩的;古板的;拘谨的;庄重的v.(使)一本正经;使整洁
    adj. (形容词)
    1. 原始的
    2. 远古的,上古的
    3. 早期的
    4. 粗糙的
    5. 简单的
    6. 未开化的
    7. 原来的
    8. 基本的
    9. 纯朴的,自然的
    10. 自学的,未经科班训练的
    11. 【生】原生的
    12. 发展水平低的,落后的
    13. 非派生的
    14. 人类或动物发展早期的
    15. 古风的
    n. (名词)
    1. 原始事物
    2. 原始人
    3. 原始派画家,原始派艺术家
    4. 文艺复兴前的艺术家
    5. 美以美教守旧派的信徒
    6. 【语法】原词,根词
    7. 【数】本原
    8. 原始
    9. 早期艺术家(作品)
    10. 模仿早期风格的艺术家
    11. 文艺复兴期前的作品
    12. 自学而成的艺术家
    13. 风格质朴的艺术家
    14. 原始卫理公会派教徒
    15. 纯朴的人
    adj. (形容词)
    1. 原始的,早期的 of or at the earliest stage of the development
    2. 简单的,粗糙的 simple; roughly made or done
    n. (名词)
    1. [C]文艺复兴以前的艺术家 painter or sculptor of the period before the Renaissance
    2. [C]原始人,原始事物 person or sth from an earlier period of history

英英释义

Noun:
  1. a person who belongs to an 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"

1. Duffy's primitive guitar playing is well below par.
达菲粗糙的吉他演奏技巧远不够水平。

来自柯林斯例句

2. The conditions are primitive by any standards.
无论用什么标准来衡量,其条件都很简陋。

来自柯林斯例句

3. It's using some rather primitive technology.
它使用的是非常古老的技术。

来自柯林斯例句

4. The methods of communication used during the war were primitive by today's standards.
按今天的标准,大战时期使用的通讯方法非常简陋。

来自《权威词典》

5. The constitution of a primitive society is not necessarily simple.
原始社会的结构未必简单.

来自《简明英汉词典》

    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。
    用作形容词 (adj.)
    用作定语 ~+ n.
    1. 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。
    2. 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。
    3. A primitive way of making a fire is by rubbing two stones together.
      原始、简单的生火办法是摩擦两块石头。
    用作表语 S+be+~
    1. The Eskimos of the far north are primitive.
      遥远北方的爱斯基摩人是原始人。
    S+be+~+ prep .-phrase
    1. Life in the village is too primitive for me; if you want any water you have to pump it up from a well.
      生活在这个村子里对我来说太不方便了; 如果你想要点水,就得从井里打上来。
    用作名词 (n.)
    1. He was an Italian primitive.
      他是一位意大利文艺复兴以前的艺术家。
    2. 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。
adj. (形容词)
  1. primitive用作形容词的意思是“原始的,早期的”,主要指发展的早期; 用以指人或用于法律时,则多与原始文明有关,而与高级文明相反,强调自然与纯朴,也可作“简单的,粗糙的”解。
用作形容词 (adj.)
~+名词
用作名词 (n.)
形容词+~