英语词汇“rudiment”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	rudiment
释义	ru·di·ment \ˈrüdəmənt\ noun (-s) Etymology: Latin rudimentum first attempt, beginning, from rudis raw, rough, rude + -mentum -ment — more at rude 1. a. : a first principle : a basic element < my tactics missed a rudiment — Emily Dickinson > < the single leaf is the rudiment of beauty in the landscape — Isaac Taylor > — usually used in plural < assume that the judges know the rudiments of law — B.N.Cardozo > b. rudiments plural : fundamental skills taught or learned (as in an elementary school) < carefully grounded in the rudiments — W.B.Parker > < acquired the mere rudiments of a common-school education — Edna Yost > 2. a. : something that is unformed or undeveloped : beginning < must admit he had the rudiment of decency — Christopher Morley > — usually used in plural < experiments … which seem to show the rudiments of a human type of intelligence in the chimpanzee — R.W.Murray > < the rudiments of a plan > < gave himself the rudiments of a wash — Maurice Walsh > < rudiments of a headache > b. : a body part or organ so deficient in size or in both size and structure as to entirely prevent its performing its normal function: (1) : an organ or part just beginning to develop : anlage (2) : one whose development has been arrested at an early stage (3) : the remains of a part functional only in an earlier stage of the same individual or in his ancestors : vestige
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