| 单词 | elemental |
| 释义 | el·e·men·tal I. 1. a. < elemental forces important to those engaged in a struggle with the soil — Frank Thilly > < the rains come with elemental force, scourging the earth wrathfully each day — Gertrude Diamant > < and over all the ancient elemental smell of the sea — Al Hine > < a race against hail, cold rains, or some other elemental catastrophe — J.K.Howard > b. obsolete c. < the worship of elemental spirits > : of or relating to a natural force or object conceived as a supernatural power or being < elemental religion > d. < his roughhewn elemental poetry — Key Reporter > < the elemental simplicity of his mind that baffled me — Jack London > < the real Highland world … is … something raw, stark, and elemental — Richard Joseph > < a creature of flesh and elemental feelings — Nicola Chiaromonte > < had a shrewd knowledge of all those predicaments in which elemental human nature comes to the surface — John Erskine > < the smell was elemental, farmyards and manure and sweat — Laura H. Mackenzie > 2. a. (1) (2) < elemental sulfur > (3) < the elemental stuff … out of which the many forms of life have been molded — Jack London > b. < in the new nations they lacked elemental political and civic rights — Oscar Handlin > < this elemental recital of what your Government is doing — F.D.Roosevelt > c. < such self-assurance is so elemental that it is not even tinged with conceit — Albert Dasnoy > < possessed an elemental sense of rhythm > • el·e·men·tal·ly II. 1. < a frightening elemental which appears as a pillar of whirling darkness — G.G.Carter > 2. < sorrow, deprivation, and dread — those constant elementals among the very poor — Sylvia Berkman > < not too much I can teach him … but I guess I still remember the elementals — Agnes S. Turnbull > |
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