primitive
US /ˈprɪmɪtɪv/
・UK /ˈprɪmətɪv/
B1 中級英檢中級
adj.形容詞未開化的
That primitive people had never seen a plane before we arrived in one
n. (c./u.)名詞 (可數/不可數)早期藝術家
He is a primitive who learned to paint by painting
adj.形容詞原始的 ；舊式的
We listened as the guide told us about the primitive tools of early man
n. (c./u.)名詞 (可數/不可數)基元
Deep in the jungle live primitive people, untouched by civilization
adj.形容詞原始的
Primitive art is often characterized by simple forms and bold colors.
n. (c./u.)名詞 (可數/不可數)原始藝術品
The museum has a collection of primitives from various cultures.
n. (c./u.)名詞 (可數/不可數)原始人
Some anthropologists study primitives to understand early human societies.
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滅絕物種復活的科學原理！ (The Science Behind De-extinction)
- So if your problem is to recreate one of those primitive cows, what do you do?
今日牛的外觀與一萬年前牛科動物的外觀不同。所以，
- So if your problem is to recreate one of those primitive cows, what do you do?
今日牛的外觀與一萬年前牛科動物的外觀不同。所以，
晚上總是輾轉難眠，睡不好嗎？教你養成五種健康習慣讓你可以一覺到天亮！ (5 Healthy Habits that help you to have the Best Sleep!)
- This phenomenon is known as the 'Proust effect,' where the sense of smell, being one of the most primitive senses among the five, has a direct and powerful impact on the brain.
這種現像被稱為「普魯斯特效應」，嗅覺作為五種感覺中最原始的感覺之一，對大腦有著直接而強大的影響。
- where the sense of smell, being one of the most primitive senses among the five, has a direct and powerful impact on the brain.
嗅覺是五種感官中最原始的一種，對大腦有著直接而強大的影響。
彼得·約瑟夫 - 我們現在在哪裡？ - 倫敦 2009-07-25 (Peter Joseph - Where are we now? - London 2009-07-25)
- Someone might say, "He has bad blood," or, "She's just an evil person." As an aside, I find it fascinating that this simplistic social fallback to explain a person's behavior is in full accord with the primitive, superstitious duality postulated by nearly all established religions: good and evil.
我們只能二選一 魚與熊掌不可兼得
- is in full accord with the primitive superstitious duality postulated
落後的社會觀點去解釋一個人的行為
研究者ですが「中世ヨーロッパ」について質問ありますか？| Tech Support | WIRED Japan (研究者だけど「中世ヨーロッパ」について質問ある？| Tech Support | WIRED Japan)
- And by the way, if you have seen images that supposedly represent what plague doctors looked like in sort of a primitive hazmat suit, no one wore those plague masks in the Middle Ages.
順便說一句，如果你看過一些圖片，據說是瘟疫醫生穿著原始的防護服的樣子，那麼在中世紀，沒有人戴這種瘟疫面具。
- And by the way, if you have seen images that supposedly represent what plague doctors looked like in sort of a primitive hazmat suit, no one wore those plague masks in the Middle Ages.
事實並非如此。
Tom Dixon 暢談設計的過去、現在與未來！| Braun | British GQ (Tom Dixon on his design past, present and future | Braun | British GQ)
- So somewhere between a visit to the Science Museum and seeing models of bridges and the primitive early computer programs that were triangulating objects, the idea for this chair came.
於是，在一次參觀科學博物館時，我看到了橋樑的模型和原始的早期計算機程序對物體進行三角測量，於是就萌生了製作這把椅子的想法。
- So somewhere between a visit to the Science Museum and seeing models of bridges and the primitive early computer programs that were triangulating objects, the idea for this chair came.
創作的樂趣可能來自於你的雙手，也可能來自於你剛買的一件工具，或者一次參觀工廠的經歷。
思想史：餐桌禮儀的演變！ (HISTORY OF IDEAS - Manners)
- From the way we do now, our bodies are generally heavier and more solid, with strong musculature and straight foreheads, with only slight brow ridges and prominent chins. Our manners would surprise us too. We sleep around a lot and openly. There is a lot of what we now call rape, we do everything in front of one another in our caves and most strikingly we have an occasional habit of eating our human enemies. Following a squabble, the leader of a group will take an enemy's severed head, carefully remove the brains and tissues and prepare the skull for use as a ceremonial drinking vessel. Primitive humans don't do manners.
從我們現在的樣子來看，我們的身體普遍更重、更結實，肌肉發達，額頭平直，只有輕微的眉脊和突出的下巴。我們的舉止也會讓我們吃驚。我們經常露宿街頭。我們在洞穴裡做任何事都當著對方的面，最引人注目的是，我們偶爾有吃掉人類敵人的習慣。在一場爭吵之後，一個群體的首領會取下敵人的頭顱，小心翼翼地取出腦漿和組織，然後把頭骨準備好，作為飲酒的禮器。原始人不懂禮貌。
- Rousseau now contrasts favourably with modern mannered people. Rousseau tells us that people living in what he calls the state of nature were, in his eyes, far superior to educated and mannered Parisians. Their manners may have been simple, but they were honest and forthright, without the sins of what he now terms the over-civilised. Rousseau retells the story of civilisation as one of loss and decline, from a primordial state of fresh-faced curiosity, honesty and enthusiasm, to barbarous over-politeness, fakery and deceit. He describes the elaborate French court at Versailles as less civilised than an early human cave. Readers across Europe are astonished, and not a little impressed, by this impudence. For hundreds of years, moralists have been arguing that our natural selves are wild, harmful, over-sexual and dangerous, and that we must learn to tame them for the sake of others. Now Rousseau suggests the diametrical opposite. Civilisation has gone too far, it's our mannered selves that have become the problem, and the task of a properly evolved civilisation is to throw off the chains of manners, to relax us, strip off the etiquette and return to primitive frankness. Rousseau's point continues to echo down to our own times. It is his voice we can hear whenever someone sticks up for the simpler life, and suggests we dress less formally, eat dinner more casually and more readily say whatever is passing through our minds. New York, United States, 1827. A French aristocrat, Alexis de Tocqueville, is on a tour of the young United States in an effort to understand the spirit of a new kind of society, a democracy. He is immediately struck by American manners, or lack thereof. In Europe, reflects de Tocqueville, manners have been codified to emphasise hierarchical differences between people. Ordinary people defer to aristocrats, aristocrats to royalty, and so on. But in the United States, everything is done so as to suggest that there are no differences between people. No one takes off their hat to anyone, a postman can casually greet a judge, a mule driver can strike up cheerful banter with a wealthy merchant, and one cannot tell by someone's clothes whether they might be living in a mansion or a hut. Expressions like how you doing and hi are heard everywhere across the new republic. It could be charming, but the aristocratic de Tocqueville wryly notes a problem. These casual manners do not do away with class and wealth differences. They merely sentimentally disguise them. The manners of old Europe have been accused of being cruel in their stress on hierarchy.
現在，盧梭與現代舉止得體的人形成了鮮明的對比。盧梭告訴我們，在他眼中，生活在他所稱的自然狀態下的人們遠比受過教育、舉止得體的巴黎人優越。他們的舉止或許簡單，但他們誠實、直率，沒有他現在所說的過度文明人的罪惡。盧梭重述了文明的失落和衰落，從最初的好奇、誠實和熱情，到野蠻的過度禮貌、虛假和欺騙。他描繪了凡爾賽宮的精緻法國宮廷，其文明程度還不如人類早期的洞穴。整個歐洲的讀者都為這種厚顏無恥的行為感到震驚，同時也留下了深刻的印象。數百年來，道德家們一直在論證，我們的天性是狂野的、有害的、過度的性慾和危險的，為了他
那個讓你放不下的前任！ (The Ex You Can’t Get Over)
- But the emotional mind is primitive.
他們是我的小寶貝，儘管自從幾個月前他們帶著自己的物品消失在夜色中後，這個非常成熟的成年人對他們沒有表現出絲毫興趣。
- But the emotional mind is primitive.
但情感思維是原始的。