primary
adj. 首要的; 初级的; 初等教育的
n. 初选
You use primary to describe something that is very important.
That's the primary reason the company's share price has held up so well...
这是公司股票价格一直居高不下的主要原因。
I don't think young people's primary aim in life is to get drunk...
我觉得年轻人生活的主要目标并不是一醉方休。
Primary education is given to pupils between the ages of 5 and 11.
Britain did not introduce compulsory primary education until 1880...
直到1880年,英国才开始实行初等义务教育。
Ninety-nine per cent of primary pupils now have hands-on experience of computers.
现在,99%的小学生都亲手操作过电脑。
Primary is used to describe something that occurs first.
It is not the primary tumour that kills, but secondary growths elsewhere in the body...
原发性肿瘤并不会置人于死地,致命的是身体其他部位的继发肿瘤。
They have been barred from primary bidding for clients.
他们被禁止对客户进行最初的投标。
A primary or a primary election is an election in an American state in which people vote for someone to become a candidate for a political office.
...the 1968 New Hampshire primary...
1968年新罕布什尔州的初选
She won the Democratic primary...
她在民主党的初选中获胜。
1. a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
2. one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
3. coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit;
1. of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondhand;
2. not derived from or reducible to something else; basic;
3. most important element;
4. of or being the essential or basic part;
5. of primary importance;
chief, principal, main, major, leading, capital, foremost, primary
这些形容词均含有"首要的,主要的"之意。
elementary, elemental, primary
这些形容词均含有"基本的"之意。
First of all we should make primary education universal.
首先我们应普及初等教育.
The primary task of the chair is to ensure the meeting runs smoothly.
主席的首要任务是确保会议顺利进行.
This is the primary impetus behind the economic recovery.
这是促使经济复苏的主要动力.
People have no letters at the primary stage of civilization.
在文明的初期,人类是没有文字的.
Intake in state primary schools is down by 10 %.
公立小学入学人数下降了10%.