primal
英 ['pra?m(?)l]
美['pra?ml]
- adj. 原始的；主要的；最初的
- n. 被壓抑童年情緒的釋放
- vt. 釋放（被壓抑的童年情緒）
TOEFL低頻詞暢通詞匯
助記提示
1、prim- + -al.
2、含義：belonging to the earliest age.
3、Psychological sense, in reference to Freud's theory of behaviors springing from the earliest stage of emotional development.
中文詞源
primal 原始的，最初的來自prime,第一的，最初的，首要的，-al,形容詞后綴。
英文詞源
- primal (adj.)
- c. 1600, "belonging to the earliest age," from Medieval Latin primalis "primary," from Latin primus "first" (see prime (adj.)). Psychological sense, in reference to Freud's theory of behaviors springing from the earliest stage of emotional development, is attested from 1918. Primal scream is from a best-selling book of 1971.
雙語例句
- 1. Money was a primal necessity to them.
- 對(duì)于他們,錢是主要的需要.
來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 2. He was the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party's purity.
- 他是頭號(hào)大叛徒, 第一個(gè)玷污了黨的純潔.
來自英漢文學(xué)
- 3. Jealousy is a primal emotion.
- 嫉妒是最原始的情感。
來自辭典例句
- 4. This India, the primal, has heen depressed.
- 原始的古印度卻凹陷下去了.
來自辭典例句
- 5. Stars are born from a kind of primal soup known as the interstellar medium.
- 恒星是由一種稱為星際介質(zhì)的“原湯”形成的.
來自辭典例句