primitive是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 原始的, 简单的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now by the abolition of serfdom we have been deprived of our authority; and so our husbandry, where it had been raised to a high level, is bound to sink to the most savage primitive condition.
-- "The relic of barbarism, the primitive commune with each guarantee for all, will disappear of itself; serfdom has been abolished--there remains nothing but free labor, and its fomms are fixed and ready made, and must be adopted.
-- He would indeed have been obliged to admit that in the eastern--much the larger--part of Russia rent was as yet nil, that for nine-tenths of the eighty millions of the Russian peasants wages took the form simply of food provided for themselves, and that capital does not so far exist except in the form of the most primitive tools.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin was, like most inhabitants of Elk Mills before the Slavo- Italian immigration, a Typical Pure-bred Anglo-Saxon American, which means that he was a union of German, French, Scotch, Irish, perhaps a little Spanish, conceivably a little of the strains lumped together as "Jewish," and a great deal of English, which is itself a combination of primitive Briton, Celt, Phoenician, Roman, German, Dane, and Swede.
-- That she had not married, at thirty-three, was due entirely to the preference of modern young men for jazz-dancing hussies; and she was not only a young lady of delicate reservations but also a singer; in fact, she was going to the West Indies to preserve the wonders of primitive art for reverent posterity in the native ballads she would collect and sing to a delighted public--if only she learned how to sing.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is allowed on all hands, that the primitive way of breaking eggs, before we eat them, was upon the larger end; but his present majesty's grandfather, while he was a boy, going to eat an egg, and breaking it ac-cording to the ancient practice, happened to cut one of his fingers.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I did not trouble my head much about the matter; whether we were among the combustible carbon, Silurians, or primitive soil, I neither knew nor cared to know.
-- Our arrangements for the night were very primitive and simple.
-- "At all events, if I am right," I thought to myself, "I must certainly find some remains of primitive plants, and it will be absolutely necessary to give way to such indubitable evidence.
-- The greater number of these marbles were stamped with the marks of primitive animals.
-- "This is the primitive formation--we are on the right road--onwards is our hope!"
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The arguments, the discussions were the great thing: the love-making and connexion were only a sort of primitive reversion and a bit of an anti-climax.
-- And then they go to the Primitive Chapel in their two-guinea hat, girls as would have been proud of a three-and-sixpen-ny one in my day.
-- I heard that at the Primitive Methodist anniversary this year, when they have a built-up platform for the Sunday School children, like a grandstand going al-most up to th' ceiling, I heard Miss Thompson, who has the first class of girls in the Sunday School, say there'd be over a thousand pounds in new Sunday clothes sitting on that platform!And times are what they are!But you can't stop them.
-- ', and the new big Primitive chapel, primitive enough in its stark brick and big panes of greenish and raspberry glass in the windows.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Amy, my dear, put this dish on; Mr Clennam will excuse the primitive customs to which we are reduced here.
-- A more primitive state of society would be delicious to me.
-- 'My mother lives in a most primitive manner down in that dreary red-brick dungeon at Hampton Court,' said Gowan.
-- He made little treats and teas for him, as if he came in with his homage from some outlying district where the tenantry were in a primitive state.
-- If we were in a more primitive state, if we lived under roofs of leaves, and kept cows and sheep and creatures instead of banker's accounts (which would be delicious; my dear, I am pastoral to a degree, by nature), well and good.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not being a belle or even a fashionable lady, Meg did not experience this affliction till her babies were a year old, for in her little world primitive customs prevailed, and she found herself more admired and beloved than ever.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I then went on, beginning with the rise and progress of the primitive religions, and coming down to the various religions of the present time, during which time I labored to show Queequeg that all these Lents, Ramadans, and prolonged ham-squattings in cold, cheerless rooms were stark nonsense; bad for the health; useless for the soul; opposed, in short, to the obvious laws of Hygiene and common sense.
-- The uncounted isles of all Polynesia confess the same truth, and do commercial homage to the whale-ship, that cleared the way for the missionary and the merchant, and in many cases carried the primitive missionaries to their first destinations.
-- Though the long period of a Southern whaling voyage (by far the longest of all voyages now or ever made by man), the peculiar perils of it, and the community of interest prevailing among a company, all of whom, high or low, depend for their profits, not upon fixed wages, but upon their common luck, together with their common vigilance, intrepidity, and hard work; though all these things do in some cases tend to beget a less rigorous discipline than in merchantmen generally; yet, never mind how much like an old Mesopotamian family these whalemen may, in some primitive instances, live together; for all that, the punctilious externals, at least, of the quarter-deck are seldom materially relaxed, and in no instance done away.
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