1. Primitive people often lived in caves.
    原始人常常住在山洞里。

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2. Primitive men lived in caves.
    原始人住在山洞里。

3. Living conditions in the village are still quite primitive.
    这个村子的生活条件仍然很原始。

4. The native of that region still live in primitive straw huts.
    那个地区的居民依然住在古老的茅草屋里。

1. I''ve just bought a couple of French primitives.
    我刚买了两幅法国早期艺术家的作品。

1. 基元：CANopen SDO分段通讯基元(primitive)此外,在低功耗ROM中整合驱动器,最多可释放8kB用户编码空间,不仅能进一步降低功耗,还能透过CAN或其他On-chip串列通道确保引导模式的安全性.

2. 基本类型：众所周知,Java 堆中存储了 Java 的类、对象和基本类型(Primitive),通过对堆的操作,开发人员可以很容易的查找任意的类、对象,甚至可以强行执行垃圾收集工作.

1. 原始的；远古的；未开化的
    Primitive means belonging to a society in which people live in a very simple way, usually without industries or a writing system.

    e.g. ...studies of primitive societies.
           对原始社会的研究
    e.g. ...primitive tribes.
           原始部落

2. （动植物）原始的，低等的，进化初期的
    Primitive means belonging to a very early period in the development of an animal or plant.

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    e.g. ...primitive whales...
           原始鲸
    e.g. Primitive humans needed to be able to react like this to escape from dangerous animals...
           原始人必须要能作出这样的反应以逃避危险的动物。

3. 古老的；简陋的
    If you describe something as primitive, you mean that it is very simple in style or very old-fashioned.

    e.g. The conditions are primitive by any standards...
           无论用什么标准来衡量，其条件都很简陋。
    e.g. The primitive surgery of those days left him virtually deaf in one ear...
           那时候简陋的外科手术让他一只耳朵几乎失聪。

1. a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms

    e.g. `pick'' is the primitive from which `picket'' is derived

2. a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived

3. a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization

    Synonym: primitive person

1. used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies

    e.g. primitive societies

2. little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type

    e.g. archaic forms of life
           primitive mammals
           the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe

    Synonym: archaic

3. belonging to an early stage of technical development
    characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness

    e.g. the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man
           primitive movies of the 1890s
           primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains

    Synonym: cruderude

4. of or created by one without formal training
    simple or naive in style

    e.g. primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking

    Synonym: naive