Duffy's primitive guitar playing is well below par.

达菲简单的吉他演奏远远低于预期的标准。

At the time, medicine was still a primitive quasi-science.

当时，医学仍是原始的准科学。

Primitive humans needed to be able to react like this to escape from dangerous animals.

原始人们需要能够像这样反应以逃脱危险的动物。

The paradox is that the region's most dynamic economies have the most primitive financial systems.

矛盾的是，该地区最具活力的经济体制有着最原始的金融体系。

Social norms are primitive and elemental.

社会规范是原始的、基本的。

A lack of detail suggests a primitive style.

细节的缺乏则显示了风格的原始。

Are you saying there might be primitive life on the moon?

你是说，月球上可能有原始生命吗？

And bacteria, primitive forms of life, have been seen there.

细菌——一种原始的生命形式——在那里被发现。

It was in this old and primitive way that Martin wooed Ruth.

马丁就是以这种古老而原始的方式向露丝求爱的。

Primitive man hunted wild animals with crude stone implements.

原始社会的人用粗糙的石器猎取野兽。

But early whaling was restricted by primitive tools and whaling techniques.

但早期捕鲸活动受到原始工具和捕鲸技术的限制。

She brought her children into the world at a time when obstetrics was a primitive art.

她生孩子的时候， 产科学还是一门原始医术。

The marks on the inside of one antelope jaw showed the primitive people cut out the tongue.

一块羚羊颌骨内部的痕迹表明，这些原始人割了它的舌头。

Our brains are made up of a primitive inner core and a more evolved and rational outer core.

我们的大脑由原始的内核和进化程度更高、更具理性的外核组成。

They made some claims about these calls qualifying as an actual language, with its own primitive grammar.

他们发出的呼唤宣称了这是一种运用他们自己原始语法的真实语言。

There are many people whose cultures are undeveloped, but the languages they speak are by no means primitive.

有许多人他们的文化不发达，但他们说的语言绝不是原始的。

It had a brain that might have been even smaller than that of a modern lemur, a primate with primitive traits.

它的大脑甚至可能比具有原始特征的现代狐猴还要小。

Around the beginning of the 20th century there were actually some primitive solar water heaters on the consumer market.

大约20世纪初，消费市场上出现了一些原始的太阳能热水器。

"Social norms are primitive and elemental," says Dr. Robert Cialdini, author of Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.

“社会规范是原始的、基本的。”《影响力：说服的心理学》的作者罗伯特·恰尔迪尼博士说。

As a result, we let disturbing thoughts and emotions arise in our consciousness and surrender to our primitive behavior.

结果，我们让令人不安的思想和情绪出现在意识中，并屈服于我们的原始行为。

I'm gonna show you some slides in a few minutes and I think you will agree with me that this art is anything but primitive.

几分钟后我会给你们展示一些幻灯片，我想你们会同意我的观点，这种艺术绝对不是原始的。

Panksepp has studied rats and found that when they play, they often chirp—a primitive form of laughter, according to the scientist.

潘克塞普曾对老鼠进行了相关研究，他发现，当老鼠玩耍的时候，他们经常发出一种唧唧喳喳很尖的声音——根据科学家表示，这是笑的一种原始形态。

Fossilized remains of Acanthostega, a primitive fish, reveal that even though the animal had rudimentary limbs, it could not walk on land.

棘螈是一种原始鱼类，它的化石遗迹显示，尽管棘螈有基本的四肢，但它却不能在陆地上行走。

They do these things better in primitive life, for there the adolescent boy joins his father in making canoes and going out fishing or hunting.

在原始生活中，他们能够把这些事情做得更好，青春期的男孩和父亲一起做独木舟，出去钓鱼或打猎。

At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, research scientists have designed a 4-inch silicon chip that holds 700 tiny primitive motors.

在俄亥俄州克利夫兰的凯斯西储大学，研究科学家设计了一种4英寸的硅片，可以容纳700个微型原始马达。

This is not because God created them to poke fun at us; it is because humans and chimps are descended from the same relatively recent primitive ape.

这并不是因为上帝创造它们来嘲笑我们；而是因为人类和黑猩猩都是同一个比较近期的原始猿人的后裔。

Even if Earth's surface were not actually sterilized by this bombardment, it is unlikely that any but the most primitive life-forms could have survived.

即使地球表面并没有被这种轰炸所灭绝，但除了最原始的生命形式之外，几乎不可能有其他生命形式幸存下来。

From these studies, scientists have concluded that the surface of the primitive Earth was covered with oceans containing the molecules fundamental to life.

从这些研究中，科学家们得出结论，海洋覆盖着原始地球的表面，其中含有构成生命的基本分子。

Most of the time, the rational part of the mind controls the information coming from the primitive core and makes its own decisions as to what to do and how to respond.

大多数时候，大脑中的理性部分会控制来自原始内核的信息，并自行决定做什么、如何回应。

In times of emotional turmoil, remember that emotions arise because your senses are wired to the primitive part of your mind which is self-regulated, autonomous and spontaneous.

情绪混乱时，请记住，情绪的产生是因为意识连接到了大脑中的原始部分，而这一部分是自动调节的、自主的、自发的。