Primordial
[praɪ'mɔːdɪəl] or [praɪ'mɔrdɪəl]
解释:
(a.) First in order; primary; original; of earliest origin; as, primordial condition.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest beds of the Silurian age, corresponding to the Acadian and Potsdam periods in American geology. It is called also Cambrian, and by many geologists is separated from the Silurian.
(a.) Originally or earliest formed in the growth of an individual or organ; as, a primordial leaf; a primordial cell.
(n.) A first principle or element.
手打:威特
同义词及近义词：
a. Original, PRIMITIVE.
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同义词及反义词：
[See PRIMEVAL]
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解释:
adj. first in order: original: existing from the beginning: (anat.) in a rudimentary state: (bot.) first formed as leaves or fruit.—n. first principle or element.—ns. Primor′dialism; Primor′dium.
整理:温弗雷德
例句:
- And the Old Man must have been an actor in many a primordial nightmare. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Neolithic man was nomadic in a different spirit from the mere daylight drift after food of the primordial hunter. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Primordial man could have had little or no tradition before the development of speech. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- They made few intelligent observations of the native methods and ideas of these primordial people. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The weight of opinion inclines now towards the idea of some primordial connection of these two groups. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Primordial man probably only drifted before the winter as the days grew cold. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- They seem to have made no very great advance from that primordial state, which was probably the state in which their ancestors had reached America. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Moonlight, too, was perhaps his time for love-making, as indeed it may have been for primordial man and the ground ape ancestor before him. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
整理:温弗雷德