primes

英 [praɪmz]

美 [praɪmz]

n.  盛年; 年富力强的时期; 鼎盛时期
v.  事先指点; 使(某人)做好准备; 把(事物)准备好; 在(金属、木材等上)打底漆
prime的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 主要的；首要的；最为重要的
  You useprimeto describe something that is most important in a situation.
  1. Political stability, meanwhile, will be a prime concern...
     同时，政治稳定性将放在首位。
  2. It could be a prime target for guerrilla attack...
     这可能是游击队进攻的主要目标。
  3. The police will see me as the prime suspect!
     警方会把我当作头号嫌疑人！
  4. Prime candidate to take over his job is Margaret Ramsay.
     接替他工作的首要人选是玛格丽特·拉姆齐。
• ADJ 优质的；一流的；上等的；最好的
  You useprimeto describe something that is of the best possible quality.
  1. It was one of the City's prime sites, near the Stock Exchange.
     这是伦敦最好的地段之一，离证券交易所很近。
• ADJ 最典型的；最有代表性的
  You useprimeto describe an example of a particular kind of thing that is absolutely typical.
  1. The prime example is Macy's, once the undisputed king of California retailers.
     最典型的例子是梅西百货，它曾经是加利福尼亚无可争辩的零售巨头。
• N-UNCOUNT 全盛时期；最活跃时期；最成功时期
  If someone or something isintheirprime, they are at the stage in their existence when they are at their strongest, most active, or most successful.
  1. Maybe I'm just coming into my prime now...
     也许我现在正要步入事业辉煌期。
  2. She was in her intellectual prime...
     在智力上，她正处于壮年。
  3. We've had a series of athletes trying to come back well past their prime.
     我们有些早已过了黄金期的运动员仍然想东山再起。
  4. ...young persons in the prime of life.
     风华正茂的年轻人
• VERB 事先指点；使做好准备
  If youprimesomeonetodo something, you prepare them to do it, for example by giving them information about it beforehand.
  1. Claire wished she'd primed Sarah beforehand...
     克莱尔真希望她事先指点过萨拉。
  2. Arnold primed her for her duties...
     阿诺德事先让她熟悉了自己的任务。
  3. The press corps was primed to leap to the defense of the fired officials.
     记者团获知信息后，立即声援被解雇官员。
• VERB 把（炸弹、枪支）装好
  If someoneprimesa bomb or a gun, they prepare it so that it is ready to explode or fire.
  1. He was priming the bomb to go off in an hour's time...
     他正在装炸弹，设定为在一个小时之内爆炸。
  2. Tom keeps a primed 10-foot shotgun in his office.
     汤姆在办公室放了一支装了子弹的10英尺长的猎枪。
• toprime the pump→ see:pump

双语例句

• Since the distribution of primes over non-primes is much smaller, you should see a significant difference between the timing of these two elements.
  因为素数比非素数少得多，应该可以看到这两类元素的计时数据有很大差异。
• The topic of primes is a large part of any book on number theory.
  在任意一本有关数论的书中，素数都是一个大的论题。
• Another example is some weird studies done in a discipline of social psychology known as terror management which involves subliminal death primes.
  另一个例子是在社会心理学中进行的，关于恐惧管理的一些古怪的研究，恐惧管理涉及到了，阈下死亡意念的促发。
• Compile each source file to an object file, for example:$ gcc-c primes. c.
  把每个源代码文件编译为对象文件，例如：$gcc-cprimes.c。
• The results show an expected higher time spent looking for non-primes rather than primes.
  结果表明，寻找非素数花费的时间远远高于寻找素数的时间。
• A few primes call it the Seven Heavens, but as usual they're off the track.
  少数主位面佬把这里叫做七重天堂，但他们通常是误解了这个名字。
• If very expensive, big, and heavy, may be almost as good and almost as fast at any given focal length as cheap fixed primes.
  如果很贵，很大，很重，那么它几乎可以做到和那些等焦距廉价的定焦一样快和好。
• Since no primes were found, the "40th known Mersenne prime" can now be simply called the "40th Mersenne prime".
  由于没有发现比这个数更小的新的梅森素数，所以“第40个已知的梅森素数”现在可以简称为“第40个梅森素数”了。
• The diagnosis itself, Langer says, primes the symptoms the patient expects to feel.
  兰格说，诊断本身就是患者预期自己将会感受到的种种症状的触发刺激。
• If the probes had been placed at the start and end of the while loop, a number of operations unrelated to the actual calculation of the primes would have been included.
  如果把探测放在while循环的开头和末尾，就会包含许多与素数的实际计算无关的操作。