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rudiment

/roo-duh-muhnt/US // ˈru də mənt //UK // (ˈruːdɪmənt) //

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Usually rudiments. the elements or first principles of a subject: the rudiments of grammar.a mere beginning, first slight appearance, or undeveloped or imperfect form of something: the rudiments of a plan.
    • : Biology. an organ or part incompletely developed in size or structure, as one in an embryonic stage, one arrested in growth, or one with no functional activity, as a vestige.

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Examples

  • Many adults, it is said, hardly have a rudiment of this feeling, pairing the most fiercely antagonistic tints.

  • Yet even in the case of this child one could observe now and again a rudiment of the tendency to bring in what is hidden.

  • No; what struck me was that never have I seen in you the smallest rudiment or embryo of a conscience or of any moral sense.

  • Some little trace would be kept by the clinging force of heredity, and at some time or another this rudiment would appear.

  • The love of the sex with man is not the origin of conjugial love, but is its first rudiment, 98.