1.[ubn]主要的；最重要的；基本的main; most important; basic
The primary aim of this course is to improve your spoken English.这门课的主要目的是提高英语会话能力。
Our primary concern must be the children.我们首先要关心的必须是儿童。
Good health care is of primary importance.良好的医疗保健是重中之重。
2.[ubn]最初的；最早的developing or happening first; earliest
primary causes最初的原因
The disease is still in its primary stage.这病尚处于初始阶段。
3.[obn]初等教育的；小学教育的connected with the education of children between the ages of about five and eleven
primary teachers小学教师
1.（美国）初选(in the US) an election in which people in a particular area vote to choose a candidate for a future important election
the Illinois primary伊利诺伊州的初选
the presidential primaries总统候选人初选
Such an administrative structure seems to well solve the insufficiency of primary care and inefficiency of special care at present.
这样的管理结构从目前来看较好的解决了初级卫生服务供给不足和专科卫生服务效率低下的问题。
An examination of the collapse of Xinjian Primary School offers a disturbing picture of a calamity that might have been avoided.
对新建小学倒塌事件的调查显示，这场灾难本是可以避免的。这个结论可能会让部分人感到头疼不已。
David Shaff, administrator of the city water bureau, said, the yuck factor was the primary reason for the decision.
波特兰水务局官员大卫•沙夫表示，做出这个决定的主要原因是因为感到恶心。
One of the primary ideas behind IBM's Smarter Planet concept is a web of sensors all over the planet, leading to a data explosion.
IBM“智慧的地球”（SmarterPlanet）项目的主要理念之一是通向数据爆炸的全球传感网络。
Trying to manage prevention in otherwise healthy people would overwhelm both cardiologists and primary care physicians.
让其他方面都健康的人们进行预防，使心脏病学家们和从事一线治疗的医生们都感到难以应付。
As is often the case, humans are the primary cause of extinction.
通常情况下，人类是物种灭绝的主要原因。
They went into the house of a woman primary school teacher, raped her, shot her father, who was a school principal, and her brother.
他们闯进一个小学女教师的家里，奸污了她，还开枪打死了她的父亲和兄弟。她的父亲是一位校长。
He is primary fodder and conversation partner to Garfield and is often the butt of Garfield's jokes.
他是加菲的衣食父母和聊天伙伴，同时也是加菲的笑柄。
Of course, they must be careful not to let it take up too much of their time because study is still their primary responsibility.
当然，他们必须小心，不要让它占用太多的时间，因为学习仍然是他们的首要责任。
It was a bright, primary-colored world, but the children in it were assiduously black and white.
这是一个灿烂明丽的多色调世界，但画面上的孩子们始终有黑白两色。
The primary resources industries do not always produce more pollutant than renewable resources industries.
利用原生资源的产业并不必然的比利用再生资源产生的污染更少。
As you know, we have made the primary health care approach a focus for wide consultation.
你们都知道，我们使初级卫生保健措施成为广泛协商的焦点。
Registration is the best way for you to locate a primary interop assembly on your computer.
注册是在计算机上定位主互操作程序集的最佳方式。
In many African education systems, mathematics is compulsory right up to A-levels, so how can we speak of a gap during primary school?
在许多非洲教育体系中，数学一直到A-levels都是必修的，那么我们如何能说在小学就出现鸿沟？
Names that meant nothing to me were to weave themselves inextricably into my life, first as a backdrop and then as my life's primary focus.
这些名字当时对我来说毫无意义，没想到后来就无可避免地交织到我生命之中了，初时作为背景，尔后成为生活的主旋律。
Best known as the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United States.
美国的第三任总统托马斯杰弗逊（ThomasJefferson）最为人所知的身份为独立宣言的起草人。
She taught in a primary school and said this was one of her first times speaking with a foreigner.
她在一所小学教书。她说这是她第一次和外国人说话。
The pattern is that of an economic upturn beginning to press on primary producing capacity, and in the UK on the labour market too.
当前的总体局势是，新一轮经济复苏正对初级产品的产能形成压力，在英国还对劳动力市场形成压力。
When some of my hard comments about him became public during the New Hampshire primary, all I could do was apologize.
在新罕布什尔州的初选中，我针对他说的一些难听的评论流传开来，我唯一能做的就是向他道歉。
The primary goal of his paper is to understand the sources of this variation.
因此，他的研究报告的首要目的就是了解这一差异的来源。
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