primeval
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源自拉丁语 primaevus (“生命的初期阶段”) + -al，源自primus (“第一的”) + aevum (“阶段，时期”)，见prime和age。
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primeval (比较级 more primeval，最高级 most primeval)
- 属于第一阶段的
- 原始的，原来的
- 1827 July, “Asiatic Society of Calcutta”, 出自 The Oriental Herald, and Journal of General Literature, 卷 XIV, 期 43, London: Printed for the editor, and sold by all booksellers [printed by J. R. Gordon, 147, Strand, →OCLC，页号 147:
- A letter from Mr. [Brian Houghton] Hodgson to Mr. Bayley, was then read, giving an outline of the theocracy of the Buddha system of Nepal. […] According to the information now communicated, the northern Buddhas acknowledge four sets of divine beings, or of superhuman objects of veneration. The first of these is, contrary to the generally supposed atheistical tendency of the faith, one primæval and uncreated deity. This first Buddha manifested five of his attributes, as five secondary Buddhas; in one of whom, Amitabha, or the 'immeasurably splendid,' in Prakrit and Pali, Amitabo, we recognise the Amito of the Japanese.
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- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], 章号 VI, 出自 Romance and Reality. […], 卷 III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC，页号 116:
- But if life has a happiness over which the primeval curse has passed and harmed not, it is the early and long enduring affection of blood and habit.
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- 远古的，落后的
- 1957, H. E. Bates, Death of a Huntsman:
- If their views were entrancing their sanitation was primeval; if they possessed stables they were also next to the gas-works; if their gardens were delightful there were odours suspicious of mice in the bedrooms.
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- “primeval”, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
- “primeval”, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587