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primus

/prahy-muhs/US // ˈpraɪ məs //UK // (ˈpraɪməs) //

骁将,初级,骁龙,骁勇

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural pri·mus·es.

    • : Scottish Episcopal Church. a bishop who is elected to represent the church body and to summon and preside at synods but who possesses no metropolitan power.

Examples

  • He phoned Richard Primus, a law professor at the University of Michigan, to see if Primus agreed and would make the argument publicly.

  • As long as the United States was the economic primus inter pares, those arguments were hard to gainsay.

  • Primus Truber, a Lutheran minister, who gave the first edition of the Vandalie scriptures, died.

  • A sledging cook will often make a disagreeable faux pas by extinguishing the primus in the preparation of hoosh.

  • Upon the primus heater, alone, did we rely for cooking the meals on sledging journeys.

  • In the "Nansen Cooker," which we used, a maximum result is secured from the heat of the primus.

  • To light a primus in a draughty tent at a low temperature calls for some forbearance before one is a thorough master of the art.