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prime

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prime1 /praɪm/ ●○○ AWL adjectiveadj [only before noun]
1  MAINmost important 最重要的，首要的 SYN main
Smoking is the prime cause of lung disease.
抽煙是引發肺部疾病的首要原因。
Our prime concern is providing jobs for all young school leavers.
我們的頭等大事是爲所有的年輕畢業生提供工作。
He was named as the prime suspect in the murder investigation.
在那宗謀殺案的調查中他被定爲主要嫌疑人。
Good management is of prime importance in business.
良好的經營管理在商業領域尤爲重要。
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2  BESTof the very best quality or kind 質量最好的，第一流的
prime rib of beef
上等牛肋排
prime agricultural land
肥沃的農田
The hotel is in a prime location overlooking the valley.
那家賓館位置極佳，可以俯瞰山谷。
3  be a prime candidate/target (for something) MAINto be the person or thing that is most suitable or most likely to be chosen for a particular purpose 是（某事物的）首選／頭號目標
The school is a prime candidate for closure.
這所學校最有可能關閉。
Old people are a prime target for thieves.
老年人是竊賊的首選目標。
Examples from the Corpus
be a prime candidate/target (for something)• It was clear the police were looking for reporters, that they were prime targets.• In addition, any enemy hit by a net is a prime target for a club attack as explained below.• Joseph was a prime candidate for deportation.• We would have thought this was a prime candidate for disclosure.• The law and order section is a prime target for every kind of scam.• And if you understood that, you are a prime target for the party's newest election weapon.• The school meals service is a prime target in the government's plans for bringing in outside contractors.• Vinyl and aluminum siding are prime candidates to take flight in a high wind.
4  prime example TYPICALa very typical example of something 非常典型的例子，有代表性的例證
Blakey Hall is a prime example of a 19th-century building.
布萊基莊園是19世紀建築的典型。
Examples from the Corpus
prime example• The prime example discussed by Stepp and Michalski involved classifying simple pictures of goods trains.• Some of it is merely popular or a prime example of a genre.• All prime examples of been there, done that, but old age means I've forgotten.• Indeed, asbestos is a prime example of how marginal exposure to carcinogens does not cause disease.• The prime example of political control is the government's Action for Community Employment scheme.• He was a prime example of self-disparagement.• The prime example of that was his chief financial officer, whom he inherited from the previous president.• Not surprisingly, then, the prime example of this new R & B sensibility was a black university graduate.
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prime• Cheryl is a prime candidate for the new managerial position.• Our prime concern is for the child's safety.• prime cuts of beef• If so, the place for you is Usenet news, the Net's prime discussion area.• He argued that agglomeration diseconomies were the prime explanation for the decentralization.• At least in Baja California, real estate should remain a prime factor in building new economic muscle.• The mall is in a prime location, visible from the freeway.• But perhaps its prime message is the crucial role that Rosat is likely to play in our understanding of these issues.• Mr Kravchuk has clearly been rankled by polls which show that his prime minister is twice as popular as he is.• The prime minister was primus inter pares in the cabinet-the first among equals.• Geoffrey Rippon, who was in charge of negotiations, reported to Whitelaw more often than to Heath, the prime minister.• Prime ministerial power, and therefore prime ministerial government is challenged.• The FBI regarded him as its prime suspect in the case.• Bigley was named the prime suspect in the murder.• Tourists are prime targets for theft and robbery.
of prime importance• He sensed this moment was of prime importance.• He thought compatibility and interests which could be shared and understood were of prime importance.• The marriage is still of prime importance.• Here, reliability of quality and delivery is of prime importance because the producer works on minimal stock-holding of raw materials.• It would immediately become a project of prime importance, far too serious to leave any loose ends hanging free.• But no one ever mentions two things which seem to me of prime importance in the whole relationship saga.• In this case aggregate theory tells us that economic criteria are of prime importance in this image building.• The care of the environment is of prime importance to our business and is the responsibility of all employees.
prime2 ●○○ noun [singular]
BESTDIEthe time in your life when you are strongest and most active 盛年，壯年時期
in your prime
She’s now 40 and still in her prime.
目前她年已四十，依然風華正茂。
He is now past his prime.
他現在已過壯年。
a man in the prime of life
一個正當盛年的男子
a young singer who was tragically cut off in her prime (=died while she was in her prime)
不幸英年早逝的女歌手
Examples from the Corpus
prime• Surely you don't allow negative numbers to be primes?• Even Margaret Thatcher in her prime could not carry her party on the question of Sundays.• He was thirty-six years old, and his youth was gone, and even his prime was passing.• In his prime, Vermeer developed what can only be called a formula, and a dazzling one.• Those selected for slaughter are done so at about thirty months, however, when their meat is at its prime.• The extract is bitter but tolerable, and the root has the taste of a radish past its prime.• The bottom strand is numbered in the same way from the 5' end, but with primes on the numbers.
cut off in ... prime• The relationship has been stormy, with joint projects often cut off in their prime.
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prime3 verb [transitiveT]
1  prepare SB 使某人做好準備PREPARE to prepare someone for a situation so that they know what to do 使準備好〔應付某一情況〕
prime somebody with something
Did you prime her with what to say?
你事先提醒她要說些什麽了嗎？
prime somebody for something
He had a shower and primed himself for action.
他沖了個淋浴，準備行動。
prime somebody to do something
He had been primed to say nothing about it.
有人事先關照過他，叫他什麽也别說。
2. a gun 槍炮PMW to prepare a gun or bomb so that it can fire or explode 爲〔槍炮〕裝火藥；爲〔炸彈等〕裝雷管
3  paint 上漆TBCPREPARE to put a special layer of paint on a surface, in order to prepare it for the next layer 在…上塗底漆
All metal surfaces will have to be primed.
所有金屬表面都必須打上底漆。
4. prime the pump informalSUPPORT A PERSON, GROUP, OR PLAN to encourage a business, industry, or activity to develop by putting money or effort into it 投資[投入人力]以促進某企業[行業等]的發展
5. water 水 to pour water into a water pump in order to make it ready to work 爲〔水泵〕注水
Examples from the Corpus
prime• The Cowboys will be primed and poised.• Did you prime her with what to say?• The Smiths were priming themselves for a spell in the top five.• These are then primed to recognise and attack the real invader.• When cleaned, non-ferrous metals are best brought to a bright finish before priming with zinc chromate or zinc phosphate.
prime somebody to do something• Second baseman Gonzalez is being primed to take over as shortstop.
From Longman Business Dictionary
primeprime1 /praɪm/ adjectiveadj
1of the best quality
acres of prime real estate right by an international airport
2main or most important
The developer’s prime objective is to build houses at maximum profit, with minimum care for the environment.
their prime concern was for the safety of the international financial system.
Martin Marietta Corp., the prime contractor in the rocket-engine development program
primeprime2 verb
prime the (economic) pump journalismECONOMICS to make the economy grow faster by increasing government spending, hoping that this will encourage business to invest more
Direct investments in job creation are essential to prime the pump and get the economy up and running again.
→ see also pump-priming
primeprime3 noun
above primeFINANCE used to talk about how much higher an interest rate is than the PRIME RATE (=the interest rate charged by banks to their best borrowers)
The working-capital loan carried an interest rate of 3½ points above prime.
Origin prime1
(1300-1400) French Latin primus “first”
prime1 adjectiveadjprime2 nounprime3 verb
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