| 英语单词 | primordial |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [praɪ'mɔːdiəl] 美 [praɪ'mɔːrdiəl] |
| 中文释义 | adj.原始的;自原始时代的;最初的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) It is the primordial force that propels us forward. (2) It personifies the primordial force of the heavens. (3) How common is this primordial sense of alienation? (4) Both were primordial beings and they had been there always. (5) Life's primordial reality is spirit. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 它是推动我们前进的原始动力。 (2) 它赋予天堂原始力量以人性化。 (3) 这种原始的疏离感有多普遍? (4) 两者都是原始的生命,而且他们一直都存在。 (5) 生命的根本真实性是精神。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Primordial, an adjective, describes something that has been around forever, like cockroaches. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Primordial comes the Latin words primus, meaning "first" and ordiri, "to begin." So it is easy to see that this adjective means "first of all, original." When something is primordial, it has existed since the earliest time, like the primordial mud some scientists believe was the source of all life on Earth. Remember that is it a scientific term — don't call your teacher primordial just because she's been teaching at your school since it opened. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ 形容词]原始的;远古的;人类最初的 You use primordial to describe things that belong to a very early time in the history of the world. [FORMAL 正式]
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