| 词汇 | prime |
| 释义 | prime adjective[ before noun ] uk /praɪm/ us /praɪm/ C2 main or most important: 首要的，主要的；基本的 This is a prime example of 1930s architecture.这是20世纪30年代建筑风格的一个重要的范例。 the prime suspect in a murder investigation谋杀案调查中的主要嫌疑犯 a prime source of evidence证据的主要来源 The president is a prime (= likely)target for the assassin's bullet.总统是这名刺客的主要目标。 of the best quality: 质量最好的，一流的 prime beef上等牛肉 The hotel is in a prime location in the city centre.该旅馆位于市中心的黄金地段。 of high quality goodBuy a really good foundation and cultivate a healthy glow. good/high qualityWe have a real commitment to high-quality ingredients. qualityWe are working hard to produce a quality product. fineThey have a well-stocked cellar full of fine wines. superiorThe food and service here are superior to any other restaurant in the city. Her prime objective now is simply to stay in power. Though I'd like to know more about Spanish culture, this was not my prime motivation for doing the course. The cottage is in a prime spot with a view of the lake and a private jetty. This painting is a prime example of Lowry's best work. She was a prime candidate for promotion. Very important or urgent all-important at all costsidiom be a matter of life and/or deathidiom cardinally chief imperative last last but not leastidiom leading life-altering life-and-death overriding primacy primary principally prior prized seminal tectonic weighty You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Extremely good prime noun uk /praɪm/ us /praɪm/ primenoun (BEST TIME)[ S ] the period in your life when you are most active or successful: 全盛时期;盛年，壮年时期 This is a dancer in her prime.这是一位正值巅峰时期的女舞蹈家。 Middle age can be the prime of life if you have the right attitude.如果心态正确，中年会是人一生中的全盛时期。 I suspect this cheese is past its prime.我觉得这块奶酪已经不那么新鲜了。 Synonym heyday Stages of life adolescence adult life adulthood adultification adultify boyhood childhood come of ageidiom coming of age day glory days golden age healthspan heyday in my dayidiom old age rite of passage salad schooldays those were the daysidiom You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Higher and lower points of achievement primenoun (SYMBOL)[ U ] the symbol ( ' ) used, for example, to represent feet in measurements: Prime is used to designate units in mathematics. Punctuation abbreviated accent acute apostrophe at sign block capitals caron comma curly bracket dash diacritical hyphen punctuation mark scare quotes small cap small capitals solidus square bracket stroke tilde You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Signs, signals and symbols prime verb[ T ] uk /praɪm/ us /praɪm/ to tell someone something that will prepare them for a particular situation: 事先给（某人）提供情况，使有所准备 I'd been primed so I knew not to mention her son.因为事先得到提醒，所以我知道不要提及她的儿子。 to cover the surface of wood with a special paint before the main paint is put on在（木质表面）上涂底漆（或底色） to make a bomb or gun ready to explode or fire为…装雷管（或火药） Preparing batten batten down the hatchesidiom break someone in bug-out bag build (someone/something) up dig gear (someone/something) up gear something to/towards someone/something get/have your ducks in a rowidiom gird gird yourselfidiom lay prep preparation regroom roll up your sleevesidiom set something up set the scene/stageidiom suit tee You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Building: carpentry & joinery Covering and adding layers Detonation & bombardment prime | American Dictionaryprime adjective[ not gradable ] us/prɑɪm/ primeadjective[not gradable] (MAIN/BEST)most important, or of the best quality: You’re a prime candidate to be spending money on foolish things. This is a prime example of native Utah architecture. The hospital is located on prime Upper East Side property. Idiomsin your/its prime past your/its prime prime verb[ T ] us/prɑɪm/ primeverb[T] (PREPARE)to prepare someone or something for the next stage in a process: Their teachers are getting those kids primed for the tests. To prime a surface is to cover it with a special paint before the main paint is put on. prime | Business Englishprime adjective uk /praɪm/us main or most important: This is a prime example of good salesmanship. Reckless lending was the prime cause of the crisis. With a market value now of only £2.1bn, it remains a prime takeover target. of the best quality: The hotel is in a prime location in the city centre. The land is considered prime real estate that could eventually be used for homes. Prime-1/Prime-2/Prime-3 FINANCE a rating (= measurement of how good something is) given to a loan to show how much of a risk there is that the loan will not be paid back. A Prime-1 rating means that the risk is very low. A Prime-2 or Prime-3 rating means that the risk is higher: Issuers rated Prime-1 have a superior ability for repayment of senior short-term debt obligations. prime noun[ S ] uk /praɪm/us the period in your life or your job when you are most active or successful: in his/her/their primeHe retired while he was still in his prime. past my/your primeI plan to work way past my prime. FINANCE, BANKING, ECONOMICS US the lowest rate of interest that banks charge their best customers for loans over a short period and that is used for calculating the interest rates on other types of loan: above/below primeThe loan was issued at a variable interest rate of 1.5% above prime. See also base rate prime verb[ T, usually passive ] uk /praɪm/us to prepare someone or something for a particular situation: I was well primed for the meeting and gave a very successful presentation. The company is primed to move ahead with its public offering. prime the pump to provide money, encouragement, ideas, etc. to help something get started: Venture capital needs to be raised to prime the pump of startups, which are long on ideas but short on cash. Examples of primeprime Pretheoretically speaking, the difference between sonorants and obstruents, whatever its reality at the level of melodic primes, has a number of syllable-relevant manifestations. More importantly, in all these experiments one intervening filler item was introduced between primes and targets to preclude lexical and discourse influences between them. Nonetheless, participants were sensitive to the gender information carried by the related constituents that were used as primes. To preclude any lexical influences from primes to targets, an intransitive filler fragment intervened between them. Along with passive primes, however, topicalizations also primed the production of passive target responses (an increase of 11%), rather than the production of actives. We start with the same matrices as before except we take 3 and 7 as the two main diagonal primes. Cross-language priming effects using masked primes tend to be asymmetrical. However, the arithmetic of isogenous curves might be quite different, especially at primes dividing the degree of an isogeny between them. Further, it would be informative to examine different kinds of primes. The target primes were assembled into three sets according to adult similarity ratings, as described below. Throughout the remainder of this paper, p and q are distinct primes, and p and q are circulant graphs of order p and q respectively. Because of their status as links, they receive less specific activation from the primes. Since we wish to measure conceptual level representations, this means that we should avoid use of associative primes. His proposal includes two universals, which he called "primes," that are related to article use. The repeated primes occurred in different sentences, and none of the participants heard the same sentence more than once. See all examples of prime These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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