| 单词 | prime |
| 释义 | prime (praɪm ) Word forms: primes , priming , primed 1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] You use prime to describe something that is most important in a situation. Political stability, meanwhile, will be a prime concern. It could be a prime target for guerrilla attack. The police will see me as the prime suspect! She is the prime candidate to take over his job. Synonyms: main, leading, chief, central 2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] You use prime to describe something that is of the best possible quality. It was one of the City's prime sites, near the Stock Exchange. Synonyms: best, top, select, highest 3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] You use prime to describe an example of a particular kind of thing that is absolutely typical. Marianne North was a prime example of Victorian womanhood of the more adventurous kind. Synonyms: fundamental, original, basic, primary 4. uncountable noun [usually poss NOUN] If someone or something is in their prime, they are at the stage in their existence when they are at their strongest, most active, or most successful. Maybe I'm just coming into my prime now. She was in her intellectual prime. We've had a series of athletes trying to come back well past their prime. ...young persons in the prime of life. [+ of] Synonyms: peak, flower, bloom, maturity 5. verb If you prime someone to do something, you prepare them to do it, for example by giving them information about it beforehand. Claire wished she'd primed Sarah beforehand. [VERB noun] Arnold primed her for her duties. [VERB noun + for] The press corps was primed to leap to the defense of the fired officials. [be VERB-ed to-infinitive] Synonyms: inform, tell, train, coach 6. verb If someone primes a bomb or a gun, they prepare it so that it is ready to explode or fire. He was priming the bomb to go off in an hour's time. [VERB noun to-infinitive] Tom keeps a primed 10-foot shotgun in his office. [VERB-ed] Synonyms: prepare, set up, load, equip 7. to prime the pump phrase To prime the pump means to do something to encourage the success or growth of something, especially the economy. [mainly US] ...the use of tax money to prime the pump of the state's economy. [+ of] Idioms: prime the pump [journalism] to take action to help something succeed or grow, usually by spending money on it Spring is the time when the government primes the pump to help farmers prepare their fields. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: prime ministership He hopes that they will reshape our ideas about him before he assumes the prime ministership. Times, Sunday Times He said, however, that he had no plans to take any high-ranking political job such as the prime ministership in the future. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As a result, he retained both his deputy prime ministership and his other ministries. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Before his prime ministership, the military received the highest share of the national budget. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 During the first four years of his prime ministership the economy continued to expand rapidly, and the government ran budget surpluses. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Maybe so, but surely a prime spot in our culture's coveted television news anchor chair could boost his self-talk into a feel-good-about-himself status? Christianity Today To get a prime spot in the arena you may have to queue for hours. Times, Sunday Times Cash incentives to persuade a producer to vacate a prime spot are becoming more common, insiders say. Times, Sunday Times If there are lots of explorers jostling for acreage, they are less likely to pick up a prime spot. Times, Sunday Times The flat was in such a prime spot that it was let within 24 hours. The Sun The clubs who made football's swollen fixture lists such a prime target for ridicule and parody. The Sun A prime target, then, for the wet-sponge treatment. Times, Sunday Times Bars and restaurants used to be a prime target for robbers. Times, Sunday Times It has never been more dangerous to be a war correspondent, because the journalist in the combat zone has become a prime target. Times, Sunday Times After one win in 24 games, the highly-paid players became a prime target. The Sun Translations: Chinese: 主要的, 全盛时期, 事先交代某人做某事 Japanese: 最重要な, 全盛期, 前もって教える |
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