Primitive

(noun.) a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; '`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived'.

(noun.) a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived.

(noun.) a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization.

(adj.) used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies; 'primitive societies' .

(adj.) 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' .

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• This was a very primitive device, requiring several minutes for the engine to make one stroke, but it was the beginning of the practical use of steam as a motive power. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The shady retreat furnished relief from the garish day to the primitive man, and the opaque shades and Venetian blinds of modern civilization exclude the excess of light at our windows. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• What was the primitive tissue? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Recourse to the primitive may furnish the fundamental elements of the present situation in immensely simplified form. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• We seem to want the oldest and simplest human clothing where the clothing of the earth is so primitive. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The partial statement of natural development takes the primitive powers in an alleged spontaneous development as the end-all. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• As implied in a previous chapter, number relations are not clearly grasped by primitive races. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Edison constructed a primitive machine capable of recording and reproducing sounds. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• When this date approaches bands of natives set out from their primitive homes and go, in many instances, hundreds of miles into the forest lowlands. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• All savage and primitive peoples of to-day, on the contrary, are soaked in tradition--the tradition of thousands of generations. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There were no big land beasts at all; wallowing amphibia and primitive reptiles were the very highest creatures that life had so far produced. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The grazing of the primitive Aryan was far more important to him than his agriculture. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The burning logs gave warmth to the cabin and served as a primitive cooking agent; and the smoke which usually accompanies burning bodies was carried away by means of the chimney. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• About 5000 B.C., or earlier, the traces of these primitive peoples cease, and the true Egyptians appear on the scene. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There is little evidence of the primitive Aryans engaging in religious dances. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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