Primary

(noun.) a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen.

(noun.) one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing.

(noun.) (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it.

(adj.) not derived from or reducible to something else; basic; 'a primary instinct' .

(adj.) of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary; 'primary goals'; 'a primary effect'; 'primary sources'; 'a primary interest' .

校对:谢尔曼

• A continuously operative primary battery. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• They forged the direct primary and the State University out of the impetus within themselves. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The primary duty of this priesthood was concerned with the worship of and the sacrifices to the god of the temple. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In the previous chapter we found that the primary subject matter of knowing is that contained in learning how to do things of a fairly direct sort. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• And this is right in one sense, as the laws of all countries in respect to protection by patents for inventions are based upon the primary condition of benefit to society. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It is the same case with most of the primary decisions of the mathematics. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The nerve fibers of the eye which carry the sensation of color to the brain are particularly sensitive to the primary colors--red, green, blue. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Nothing remains to us but that universal or primary science of which all the arts and sciences are partakers, I mean number or calculation. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Extension of Meaning of Primary Activities. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The primary of the induction-coil is connected as shown, one end going to key K and the other to the buzzer circuit. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Our primary care must be to keep the habits of the mind flexible and adapted to the movement of real life. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The interference by social arrangements with Nature, God's work, is the primary source of corruption in individuals. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Johnson had had a few Edison lamps in London, lit up from primary batteries, as a demonstration; and in the summer of 1880 Swan had had a few series lamps burning in London. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• This appeared to him the primary step towards manhood, and he was proportionably pleased. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• In every machine the primary state of material has been modified by subordinating it to use for a purpose. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots make a democracy out of an illiterate people. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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