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primordial

/prahy-mawr-dee-uhl/US // praɪˈmɔr di əl //UK // (praɪˈmɔːdɪəl) //

原始的,最初的,原生的,初始的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
    • : Embryology. first formed.
    • : pertaining to or existing at or from the very beginning: primordial matter.

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Examples

  • Which means we might not only find life on Mars but a form of life older and more primordial than any previously observed on Earth.

  • Chunks that, individually, are mere specks in the cloud of millions of such primordial planetary leftovers circling our sun.

  • These conditions were driven by large amounts of internal “primordial heat.”

  • Researchers have since tested most aspects of the equations by replicating the primordial nuclear reactions in laboratories.

  • If true, it would be the first window physicists have opened onto those primordial phase transitions.

  • Sliding around beneath the surface of Los Angeles is something dark, primordial, and without form.

  • What humans choose to do with this shapeless primordial stuff leaking through the cracks can often be almost comical.

  • He is rather drawn to figures in pain, to the primordial, and to gloom.

  • One predicted side effect of inflation is primordial gravitational waves: twisty ripples in the structure of the Universe.

  • By now a calm had settled over him, a kind of primordial survival instinct, he believes.

  • His point now became exactly what it used to be in the primordial dog—a pause of preparation before the spring.

  • Nu was the spirit of the primordial deep, and Nut of the waters above the heavens, the mother of moon and sun and the stars.

  • First of all Thales thought that water was the primordial substance of all things.

  • He lifted a pseudopod from primordial ooze, and the pseudopod was him.

  • Brilliant as are, in certain animal species, the destinies of the male, the female is primordial.