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 primal ['praiml]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 主要的, 最初的, 原始的



    primal
    [ adj ]
    1. serving as an essential component

    2. <adj.all>
      a cardinal rule
      the central cause of the problem
      an example that was fundamental to the argument
      computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure
    3. having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state

    4. <adj.all>
      aboriginal forests
      primal eras before the appearance of life on earth
      the forest primeval
      primordial matter
      primordial forms of life


    Primal \Pri"mal\, a. [LL. primalis, fr. L. primus the first. See
    {Prime}, a.]
    First; primary; original; chief.

    It hath the primal eldest curse upon it. --Shak.

    The primal duties shine aloft like stars. --Wordsworth.

    1. It was typical of the "primal urge of exacting revenge" that dominates the courts today, Mr. Bank contended.
    2. Weiner, an advocate of the controversial "primal scream" therapy, treated Ms. Schreuder, court papers said.
    3. Their efforts were briefly interrupted, however, when a group of Goddess worshipers, holding a ritual for Mother Earth nearby, let go with their primal screams.
    4. Their wails reach a feverish pitch and peak in a primal scream.
    5. Their appeal, likewise, is to the primal instincts, not the imagination.
    6. Ten years later he published the first of two books on American sexual behavior that shook the American public to its primal roots and inventoried everything from infidelity to masturbation.
    7. His blood lust is so well done he somehow seems to revert to a primal, evil animal state.
    8. The viewer is intended to begin at the Eastern end, where man is seen crawling out from the primal slime.
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