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 pristine ['prɪstin]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 太古的, 原来的, 古时的, 原始的



    pristine
    [ adj ]
    1. completely free from dirt or contamination

      2. <adj.all>
      pristine mountain snow
    2. immaculately clean and unused

      3. <adj.all>
      handed her his pristine white handkerchief


    Pristine \Pris"tine\, a. [L. pristinus, akin to prior: cf. F.
    pristin. See {Prior}, a.]
    Belonging to the earliest period or state; original;
    primitive; primeval; as, the pristine state of innocence; the
    pristine manners of a people; pristine vigor.

    1. Critics of the nuclear shutdown also say dirty, fossil-fuel energy that replaces atomic power will threaten Sweden's pristine forests and hundreds of thousands of clear lakes.
    2. Attorneys for Hazelwood and the state had expected jury selection would take two weeks because of publicity about the accident that polluted pristine waters, tarred shorelines, killed wildlife and disrupted fishing.
    3. When a dam holding runoff broke and flooded a pristine bog in German Valley, researcher Joe Lange discovered that water leaving the bog was clear.
    4. Frightened animals had to flee repeatedly from buzzing helicopters, and cleanup crews left behind tons of plastic boom material, absorbent pompons and other litter on previously pristine beaches.
    5. The governor on Saturday asked Alaskans to observe five minutes of silence Sunday in remembrance of the way things were before the Exxon Valdez oil spill fouled hundreds of miles of pristine coastline.
    6. He treats his dancers felicitously - Sarah Warsop soaring in big jumps; John Kilroy ebullient in step; Jacqueline Jones radiant and contemplative - and the dance has a pristine air.
    7. A state water agency dropped its $100 million lawsuit against the city in exchange for municipal promises to spend even more to cut the flow of pollution into once pristine Santa Monica Bay.
    8. National Science Foundation bases in Antarctica are polluting the pristine polar environment in violation of U.S. laws and international agreements, the Environmental Defense Fund said Tuesday.
    9. Support for limits on offshore oil exploration has grown since the March disaster in which the tanker Exxon Valdez spilled 1.6 million gallons of oil into the pristine Prince William Sound water off the Alaska coast.
    10. The Exxon Valdez rammed Bligh Reef on March 24, spilling about 11 million gallons of crude oil into the sound's pristine waters.
    11. Here we have, by constitutional first principle, no established church, and so only a minority among us have heard that phrase in its pristine context.
    12. He was spending the milestone birthday unveiling a sweeping proposal to clean up the nation's polluted air, then hopping aboard Air Force One to visit one of America's most pristine settings, the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
    13. Nearly 11 million gallons of oil were dumped into the pristine sound, killing countless birds, fish and other wildlife and blackening hundreds of miles of rocky shore.
    14. "The big question was why such a pristine area would have high levels of pesticides, PCBs and dioxins," Jarman said.
    15. The commercials dovetail with Exxon's message about the effects of the spill on Prince William Sound. "See its pristine shoreline, nearly restored after last year's spill," an announcer says.
    16. The neighbors worried about noise, dust and trucks; Ms. Smith, an amateur naturalist, worried about the quarry's intrusion on the pristine Swift Creek area.
    17. Sagebrush rebels have bulldozed roads into pristine land to spoil it for wilderness. "Eco-terrorists" have pounded spikes into ancient trees to spoil them for logging.
    18. The Exxon Valdez tanker wreck has left about that much oil on the sound's once pristine shoreline _ Exxon figures it at 366 miles.
    19. Environmentalists also have argued that cutting the demand for gasoline is the best way to curb the need for oil _ and, thereby, preserve pristine wilderness and environmentally delicate coastal areas that otherwise might be opened for drilling.
    20. Last March, an Exxon tanker ran aground on a reef an spilled 11 million gallons into Alaska's pristine Prince William Sound.
    21. Their grandmother is preoccupied with the vista outside the window, pristine soft snow and black rock, snow so deep it reaches the roofs of fishing cabins.
    22. Bush has postponed for months his decision on whether to allow or ban drilling in pristine areas.
    23. She found a small jade Buddha, burned to a pristine white.
    24. And Hubbell has a "pristine balance sheet," with long-term debt less than 2% of total capital. The stock closed yesterday at $48.25 a share.
    25. Environmentalists argue that regardless of the amount of oil extracted, it would be insignificant compared with the nation's total oil consumption and that it isn't worth the potential damage to the pristine wilderness.
    26. His stuff was so moral and pristine that it made the sex and the wild and lewd comedy in the show work.
    27. While cheering the offshore drilling ban as a good first step, they cringe at his enthusiasm for future drilling in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife reserve.
    28. You still go out and cut your wood, get your moose or caribou and your fish." Greg Taylor, 40, an Englishman teaching in the Netherlands, said the whales and the promise of pristine country are what attracted him to Newfoundland and Beamish's program.
    29. "The real estate problem is serious and is dragging what were once considered rather pristine regional banks down into the muck with Texas institutions," said economist Paul Getman of the Wefa Group, a Bala Cynwyd, Pa., forecasting firm.
    30. The trio sing with pristine precision while playing acoustic guitar, fiddle and standup bass.
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