primeval
adj. 原始的; 太古的,太初的
adv. 原始地,太古地,太初地
You use primeval to describe things that belong to a very early period in the history of the world.
...the dense primeval forests that once covered inland Brittany.
曾经覆盖着布列塔尼大区内陆的茂密的原始森林
...a vast expanse of primeval swamp.
辽阔的原始沼泽地
You use primeval to describe feelings and emotions that are basic and not the result of thought.
...a primeval urge to hit out at that which causes him pain.
一种迫切想要攻击令他痛苦的事物的本能
1. having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state;
He was more connected perhaps to the primeval concepts and Earth powers.
他或许更多地连接到原始概念和地球力量上.
It aroused strange primeval yearnings in him.
这使他产生了奇怪的、基于人类固有之本能的强烈欲望.
Yossarian was alone in a ponderous, primeval lull in which everything green looked black.
在这阵给人一种太古时代沉重之感的寂静里,尤索林有种孤独的感觉, 他觉得绿绿的东西看上去好象是黑的.
But there is a primeval instinct about somebody snapping at your heels and it doesn't hurt.
但当你感到有人快要咬到你脚后跟时,你的某种原始本能被会被激发出来,这对你没有坏处.
She refused to fall in , however , with Clovis's tempting suggestion of a primeval dance party.
她拒绝接受克洛维提出的参加原始舞会的诱惑性的建议.