primitive
原始
definition
noun
The difficulty with this strategy was that it tended to provide ample room for the reproduction of stereotypical views regarding the barbarism of the primitive .
a person belonging to a preliterate, nonindustrial society or culture.
Theirs was no retrograde revival of past styles, but a reworking of Giotto and the Italian primitives through a modernist lens, specifically, the ironic classicism of Giorgio de Chirico.
a pre-Renaissance painter.
adjective
primitive mammals
relating to, denoting, or preserving the character of an early stage in the evolutionary or historical development of something.
the primitive material of the universe
not developed or derived from anything else.
translation of 'primitive'
noun
原函数,
图元,
原始人
adjective
原始,
原语,
图元
example
Molar polymorphism is probably a 'primitive' mammalian character, conserved in marsupials and mustelids.
Does it not follow that if the evolution of amoeba to man is fact, then the development of 'primitive' man to civilized man must be fact also?
Symbols of science, art and magic can be found in 'primitive' cave paintings in France.
In pursuit of bigger game, I began searching for similar archaic behavior in humans, focusing on the apparently 'primitive' vocalization of laughter.
If that were the case then no civil law could apply and all men preserved their 'primitive' rights to secure themselves at all costs from harm.
The foregoing analyses adopt a comparative notion of reasonableness as a basic or 'primitive' notion.
Lacking either camera or scales I experienced a brief temptation to take the fish home with me - more as proof to my wife and children that I could actually catch a bass, than through a 'primitive' desire to feed them.
The main results describe the structure of B / A where B and A are non-zero ideals in L proving, in particular, that B / A is a 'primitive' ring that is not regular.
This land bridge allowed 'primitive' mammals to colonize South America from the North.
The path was in many places a 'primitive' stairway, or crude stepladder, at first through a jungle, and later up a very steep, grass-covered slope.
It was painted from notes she made while traveling in the district, and is a summation of her landscape style and ideals which often ended in a form of 'primitive' cubism.
I grew up in a pretty 'primitive' environment, without many modern conveniences.
The factors that produced social bandits and other 'primitive' rebels in the past are very much part of the present-day world.
And the raw primitive hope was crushed to produce an equally raw and 'primitive' anger.
Rejecting the ethnocentrism characteristic of an earlier generation of anthropologists, Levi-Strauss refused to think of tribal cultures as 'primitive' .
Certainly, other bird-like fossils will be found - either earlier or more 'primitive' .
Matisse was not one to rest on his laurels, and he continued studying various styles including 'primitive' art, and the work of painters in other disciplines.
Animals display 'primitive' feelings that are a product of their programming or instinct.
Nouns fall into three major groups: the basic or " 'primitive' " nouns, noun compounds, and nouns formed from verbs.
The evolutionarily 'primitive' aspect of emotion helps to explain its power to disrupt thinking.
Even after 'primitive' use of crude lagging gave way to a more general use of preformed asbestos block insulation, such blocks were cut dry which could actually enhance dust production.
Ricoeur argues that this 'primitive' desire for order, at least in its more developed forms, takes precedence over the desire for retribution.
I build with the most 'primitive' materials - with the triad, with one specific tonality.
His style has been loosely described as expressionistic, surrealistic, naive, and 'primitive' , but was also strongly influenced by the urban realism of John Sloan.
The idea of marriage is almost as old as the hills and was performed even in the most 'primitive' of human societies and cultures.
However, he was hailed as a great artist and visionary by Picasso, Magritte and Ernst, who admired Rousseau's 'primitive' style of painting and viewed him as being part of a force that was changing the face of art.
Iron is so important that 'primitive' societies are measured by the point at which they learn how to refine iron and enter the iron age!
Until this time, a 'primitive' plow was arduously pulled through rough ground by an unshod horse with a strap across its windpipe.
We can read with interest about 'primitive' pre-literate cultures and the amazing memories these people have for landforms or for stories and songs.
Proponents of the multiregional theory consider Neanderthals as an earlier 'primitive' stage in the development of modern Europeans.
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