primaries
英[p'ra?m?r?z]
美[p'ra?m?r?z]
例句
柯林斯高階英漢雙解學習詞典釋義
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ADJ
首要的；主要的
You use primary to describe something that is very important.
例句
That's the primary reason the company's share price has held up so well...
這是公司股票價格一直居高不下的主要原因。
I don't think young people's primary aim in life is to get drunk...
我覺得年輕人生活的主要目標并不是一醉方休。
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ADJ
（教育）初級的，初等的，小學的
Primary education is given to pupils between the ages of 5 and 11.
例句
Britain did not introduce compulsory primary education until 1880...
直到1880年，英國才開始實行初等義務教育。
Ninety-nine per cent of primary pupils now have hands-on experience of computers.
現在，99%的小學生都親手操作過電腦。
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ADJ
首先的；最早的；最初的
Primary is used to describe something that occurs first.
例句
It is not the primary tumour that kills, but secondary growths elsewhere in the body...
原發(fā)性腫瘤并不會置人于死地，致命的是身體其他部位的繼發(fā)腫瘤。
They have been barred from primary bidding for clients.
他們被禁止對客戶進行最初的投標。
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N-COUNT
（美國）初選，預選
A primary or a primary election is an election in an American state in which people vote for someone to become a candidate for a political office.
例句
...the 1968 New Hampshire primary...
1968年新罕布什爾州的初選
She won the Democratic primary...
她在民主黨的初選中獲勝。