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prime

/pɹaɪ̯m/ 动词 C2

中文: 涂底漆、上底漆、起动、启动

  1. To fill or prepare the chamber of a mechanism for its main work. (transitive) · You'll have to press this button twice to prime the fuel pump.
  2. To apply a coat of primer paint to. (transitive) · I need to prime these handrails before we can apply the finish coat.
  3. To serve as priming for the charge of a gun. (intransitive)
  4. To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed. (intransitive)
  5. To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
  6. To prepare; to make ready. · The boys are primed for mischief.
  7. To mark with a prime mark.

He/she/it primes · 过去式 primed · 过去分词 primed · -ing形式 priming

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动词形式

原形
prime
He/she/it
primes
过去式
primed
过去分词
primed
-ing形式
priming

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“Yet,” continued the count, becoming each moment more absorbed in the anticipation of the dreadful sacrifice for the morrow, which Mercédès had accepted, “yet, it is impossible that so noble-minded a woman should thus through selfishness consent to my death when I am in the prime of life and strength; it is impossible that she can carry to such a point maternal love, or rather delirium.
《The Count of Monte Cristo》,第902页 · C1
But she never sharpened the latter on Anne, who continued to be a prime favorite with the critical old lady.
《Anne of Green Gables》,第300页 · C1
It’s more than the Prime Minister gets.
《The Valley of Fear》,第17页 · C1
He was more than six feet high, was in the prime of life, had small feet for his height, wore coarse, square-toed boots and smoked a Trichinopoly cigar.
《A Study in Scarlet》,第35页 · B2

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