词汇精选：elementary的用法和辨析

一、详细释义：

adj.

初级的，基础的，基本的

例句：

Here it refers to the elementary education that starts with learning to read and getting enlightened.

这里指的是从识字启蒙开始的基础教育。

例句：

The new laws deprived many people of the Most elementary freedoms.

新法律剥夺了许多人的最基本的自由。

简单的，容易的

例句：

Of course it had to start with the most elementary things.

当然这必须从最简单的事情做起。

【化】元素的

例句：

Tin is an elementary substance.

锡是一种元素物质。

二、词义辨析：

elementary,elemental,primary

这些形容词均含有“基本的”之意。elementary指属于事物的初步或起始阶段elemental强调属于事物的基础或本质。primary可与作“初步的，初级”的elementary换用。

三、相关短语：

elementary education

初等教育,小学教育

elementary particle

n.[核]基本粒子

elementary school

n.1.小学

elementary geometry

初等几何(学)

四、参考例句：

elementary education

初等教育

Tin is an elementary substance.

锡是一种元素物质。

Is he in elementary school?

他在上小学吗？

His classmates were labouring with elementary algebra.

他的同学们正在绞尽脑汁地演算初等代数题。

You've made a very elementary mistake.

Elementary education should be available to all children.

所有的儿童都应当接受初等教育。

Most children go to public elementary and secondary schools.

大多数孩子上的是公立小学和公立中学。

A proton is an elementary particle of matter.

质子是物质的基本粒子。

The student took a course in elementary math.

那个学生选了一门基础数学。

This elementary school is affiliated to a university.

这所小学附属于一所大学。