单词	pristine
释义	pristinepris‧tine /ˈprɪstiːn/ adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINpristine Origin: 1500-1600 Latin pristinus Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES the pristine whiteness of newly fallen snow EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Beyond the pristine beaches are rain forests. He passed her a pristine handkerchief and waited. He wore a charcoal-grey business suit, with a pristine white shirt and maroon silk tie. The bustle of passport control and customs clearance over, father and daughter emerged into the pristine arrivals lounge. Three giant mining conglomerates are moving ahead in three pristine locations. Thesaurus THESAURUS► clean without any dirt or marks: · They need clean water to drink.· I don’t have any clean clothes. ► pure water or air that is pure does not contain any dirt, pollution, or bacteria: · I breathed in the pure mountain air. ► sterile completely clean, with no bacteria, and therefore safe for medical or scientific use: · Place a sterile bandage on the wound.· sterile needles ► spotless completely clean – used mainly about rooms and clothes: · Her kitchen is always spotless. ► pristine completely clean and new-looking: · He wore a pristine white shirt. ► immaculate as clean and tidy as it is possible to be: · The soldiers’ uniforms have to be immaculate. ► spick and span [not before noun] informal clean and tidy, especially after having just been cleaned: · By the end of the day, the whole place was spick and span. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► pristine condition  The car has been restored to pristine condition. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► condition · Boarders live in the plainest of rooms, kept in pristine condition.· Past the end of the lake a limestone grotto is reached, affording shelter but not now maintained in pristine condition.· They spend up to 3,000 hours bringing what look like rusty writeoffs back to pristine condition.· The Flack team restored her to pristine condition as G-FURY, and she made her first flight at Elstree in June 1980.· The photographic archive of the Crown Agents in London contains a magnificent record of these stations in their pristine condition. 1extremely fresh or clean:  a pristine white shirt► see thesaurus at clean2something that is pristine is in the same condition as when it was first made:  The car has been restored to pristine condition.3not spoiled or damaged in any way:  pristine African rainforest
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