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.
曾經覆蓋著布列塔尼大區內陸的茂密的原始森林
...a vast expanse of primeval swamp.
遼闊的原始沼澤地
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.
一種迫切想要攻擊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.
他或許更多地連線到原始概念和地球力量上.
It aroused strange primeval yearnings in him.
這使他產生了奇怪的、基於人類固有之本能的強烈慾望.
Yossarian was alone in a ponderous, primeval lull in which everything green looked black.
在這陣給人一種太古時代沉重之感的寂靜裡,尤索林有種孤獨的感覺, 他覺得綠綠的東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.
但當你感到有人快要咬到你腳後跟時,你的某種原始本能被會被激發出來,這對你沒有壞處.
She refused to fall in , however , with Clovis's tempting suggestion of a primeval dance party.
她拒絕接受克洛維提出的參加原始舞會的誘惑性的建議.