primeval

英 [praɪˈmiːvl]

美 [praɪˈmiːvl]

adj.  远古的; 原始的; 出于原始天性的

BNC.15652 / COCA.18353

牛津词典

adj.

• 远古的；原始的
  from the earliest period of the history of the world, very ancient
  1. primeval forests
     原始森林
• 出于原始天性的
  very strong and not based on reason, as if from the earliest period of human life
  1. primeval urges
     本能的欲望

柯林斯词典

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 primaeval


• ADJ 太古的；原始的；远古的
  You useprimevalto describe things that belong to a very early period in the history of the world.
  1. ...the dense primeval forests that once covered inland Brittany.
     曾经覆盖着布列塔尼大区内陆的茂密的原始森林
  2. ...a vast expanse of primeval swamp.
     辽阔的原始沼泽地
• ADJ （感觉、情感）本能的，原始的，天性的
  You useprimevalto describe feelings and emotions that are basic and not the result of thought.
  1. ...a primeval urge to hit out at that which causes him pain.
     一种迫切想要攻击令他痛苦的事物的本能

英英释义

adj

• having existed from the beginning
  1. aboriginal forests
  2. primal eras before the appearance of life on earth
  3. the forest primeval
  4. primordial matter
  5. primordial forms of life
  Synonym:aboriginalprimalprimaevalprimordial

双语例句

• Of the ten national-level and provincial-level nature reserves, most belong to the primeval forest ecological system.
  还有十多个国家级和省级的自然保护区，其中不少是原始森林生态系统。
• The dark night of the soul engulfed him, and he felt a strange, primeval terror he knew not what.
  灵魂的黑夜笼罩了他，他感到一种奇异、原始、难以名状的恐惧。
• The landscape is uniquely primeval and rather undeveloped.
  特有的原始景观，没开发过的。
• Of all languages, Sanskrit most closely approaches telepathic language because of its affinity to the fifty primeval sounds.
  在所有的语言中，梵语是最靠近精神感应的语言，因为它与五十种原始的声音很相近。
• Nature in the law, primeval nature, is another kind of beauty.
  野性自然，原始自然，它是另一种美。
• It was almost primeval, my friend quips.
  我的一个朋友打趣道：这简直就像回到了原始时代。
• The railway cuts through a primeval forest.
  铁路穿越原始森林。
• Many mjllions of years ago, our ancestors climbed out of the primeval ooze onto dry land.
  数百万年以前，我们的祖先从远古时期的沼泽地里爬出来，来到了干燥的陆地上。
• She refused to fall in, however, with Clovis's tempting suggestion of a primeval dance party.
  她拒绝接受克洛维提出的参加原始舞会的诱惑性的建议。
• Influenced by primeval African sculpture, Picasso began to explore a new painting style in1906.
  1906年毕加索受到非洲原始雕刻和塞尚绘画影响，而转向一种新画风的探索。