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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The huge chariot, with its primitive wheels and massive planks, pleased her particularly.
-- Nature seems to have exhausted in its favor all the primitive colors on her palette.
-- They often go to the large towns, such as Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne, and walk about in very primitive costume.
-- It seemed as if this chain of the Alps separated two different countries, one of which had retained its primitive wildness.
-- Two palanquins of a very primitive kind, hand-barrows, in fact, were brought to the foot of the mound, and the corpses doubled up so that they were sitting rather than lying, and their garments kept in place by a band of hanes, were placed on them.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had again the feeling that he was possessed of a devil; but you could not say that it was a devil of evil, for it was a primitive force that existed before good and ill.
-- The satyr in him suddenly took possession, and he was powerless in the grip of an instinct which had all the strength of the primitive forces of nature.
-- You feel I know not what primitive force which repels and yet fascinates you.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A charge of small shot would have made great slaughter among these birds, but the hunters were still limited to sticks and stones, and these primitive weapons proved very insufficient.
-- They contented themselves with spreading moss and dry leaves on the sand of the passages, and on these primitive couches the tired workers slept soundly.
-- Henceforward all the loads, wood, coal, provisions, and even the settlers themselves, were hoisted by this simple system, which replaced the primitive ladder, and, as may be supposed, no one thought of regretting the change.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She told him all that they had no friend or relative that she had fled with the old man, to save him from a madhouse and all the miseries he dreaded that she was flying now, to save him from himself and that she sought an asylum in some remote and primitive place, where the temptation before which he fell would never enter, and her late sorrows and distresses could have no place.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There is a disgusting bestiality in man," he thought; "but when it is in a primitive state, one looks down upon and despises it, whether he is carried away with or withstands it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I did not expect to find the electric cable in its primitive state, such as it was on leaving the manufactory.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Perfectly beautiful full of primitive passion ""Isn't it queer that she always likes little things? she must always work small things, that one can put between one's hands, birds and tiny animals.
-- "This playing at killing has some primitive desire for killing in it, don't you think?"
-- He liked to read books about the primitive man, books of anthropology, and also works of speculative philosophy.
-- The suggestion of primitive art was their refuge, and the inner mysteries of sensation their object of worship.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The floor was of s mooth, white stone; the chairs, high backed, primitive structures, painted green: one or two heavy black ones lurking in the shade.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have been, in all my circumstances, a memento to those who are touched with the general plague of mankind, whence, for aught I know, one half of their miseries flow: I mean that of not being satisfied with the station wherein God and Nature hath placed them - for, not to look back upon my primitive condition, and the excellent advice of my father, the opposition to which was, as I may call it, my ORIGINAL SIN, my subsequent mistakes of the same kind had been the means of my coming into this miserable con-dition; for had that Providence which so happily seated me at the Brazils as a planter blessed me with confined desires, and I could have been contented to have gone on gradually, I might have been by this time - I mean in the time of my being in this island - one of the most considerable planters in the Brazils - nay, I am persuaded, that by the improve-ments I had made in that little time I lived there, and the increase I should probably have made if I had remained, I might have been worth a hundred thousand moidores - and what business had I to leave a settled fortune, a well-stocked plantation, improving and increasing, to turn supercargo to Guinea to fetch negroes, when patience and time would have so increased our stock at home, that we could have bought them at our own door from those whose business it was to fetch them?
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