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

• The landscape is uniquely primeval and rather undeveloped.
  特有的原始景观，没开发过的。
• According to this, when the gods created the world order, they sacrificed a primeval being to Brahma Lord of creatures.
  据此解释，众神创造了世界秩序，他们把一个原始生命献祭给了梵天造物主。
• The other half, often overlooked, is the primeval landscape in front of which she is sitting.
  常常被忽视的另外一半则是画中蒙娜丽莎背后的背景。
• 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。
• 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。
• They have been living in the dense primeval forest and surviving on hunting and raising reindeers in their own traditional way.
  他们世代以打猎和饲养驯鹿为生，拥有自己传统的生活方式。
• To the primeval forest, you can enjoy the natural life of the colorful, big forest to explore the mysteries of the infinite.
  到原始森林，您可饱览天然生命的多姿多彩，探寻大森林的无穷奥秘。
• It straggled onward into the mystery of the primeval forest.
  这条小路婉蜒伸入神秘的原始森林之中。
• He was more connected perhaps to the primeval concepts and Earth powers.
  他或许更多地连接到原始概念和地球力量上。
• This indicated that advanced attributes of human beings had cut a figure during the inferior level of primeval time.
  这表明了在原始期的低级阶段，人类的高级属性已经崭露头角。