primary
adj. 首要的; 初級的; 初等教育的
n. 初選
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...
這是公司股票價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...
我覺得年輕人生活的主要目標並不是一醉方休。
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,英國才開始實行初等義務教育。
Ninety-nine per cent of primary pupils now have hands-on experience of computers.
現在,99%的小學生都親手操作過電腦。
Primary is used to describe something that occurs first.
It is not the primary tumour that kills, but secondary growths elsewhere in the body...
原發性腫瘤並不會置人於死地,致命的是身體其他部位的繼發腫瘤。
They have been barred from primary bidding for clients.
他們被禁止對客戶進行最初的投標。
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年新罕布什爾州的初選
She won the Democratic primary...
她在民主黨的初選中獲勝。
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
這些形容詞均含有"首要的,主要的"之意。
elementary, elemental, primary
這些形容詞均含有"基本的"之意。
First of all we should make primary education universal.
首先我們應普及初等教育.
The primary task of the chair is to ensure the meeting runs smoothly.
主席的首要任務是確保會議順利進行.
This is the primary impetus behind the economic recovery.
這是促使經濟復甦的主要動力.
People have no letters at the primary stage of civilization.
在文明的初期,人類是沒有文字的.
Intake in state primary schools is down by 10 %.
公立小學入學人數下降了10%.