and found our then prevailing primitive state completely uninteresting to their own advanced knowledge.
并且发现我们地球当时普遍存在着的原始状态同他们先进的知识相比是索然无味的。
新概念英语第四册 Lesson 43 Are there strangers in space

📚 句中词汇解析

从本句中提取的重要词汇

found [faʊnd] 词频1 词根: found
vt. 创办,成立,建立; v. 发现( find的过去式);找到;到达;发觉;
💡 found基础 → 为(房屋等)打基础,建立,创立
"In some stories, genies are always found inside a lamp or bottle."
在一些故事里, 灯里或瓶子中总是装有妖怪.
近义:base, ground, establish, institute, mount, rest 反义:invalidate, abrogate, negate, nullify, omit, outlaw
primitive ['prɪmətɪv] 词频2 词根: prim
adj. 原始的;发展水平低的;落后的;[生物学]原生的; n. 原始人;早期的艺术家(作品);单纯的人:不世故的人;自学的艺术家;
💡 prim第一,主要+itive形容词后缀 →原始的
"All these drums remain from the primitive period."
这些鼓舞都带有原始遗存的含义。
近义:indigenous, native, original, autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous 反义:mod, new, newfangled, novel, recent, unworn
state [stet] 词频1 词根: sta
n. 国家;州;状况,情况;资格; vt. 规定;陈述,声明; adj. 国家的;国务的,公务的;正式的;
💡 stat站立+e强调 → 国家;状态
"Dot arrived in a state of great agitation."
多特到达时十分焦虑不安。
近义:hold, maintain, assert, asseverate, manifest, assure
completely [kəm'plitli] 词频1 词根: 充满
adv. 完全地;完整地;完全,彻底,全部,一干二净;很,非常,充分,十分,万分;
💡 com 共同 + plete=plet满,填满 + ly ...地 → adv. 完全地,彻底地;完整地
"No funding will be available until the technology is completely proven."
该技术得到充分验证后才会有拨款.
近义:absolutely, off, outright, perfectly, plumb, positively 反义:insufficiently, scarcely, scrappily, skimpily, truncately, unexhaustively
knowledge ['nɑlɪdʒ] 词频1 词根: 知道
n. 了解,理解;知识(表示多方面的知识时有复数knowledges这一用法);学科;见闻;
💡 know知道+ledge框架 → 知识
"She has acquired a good knowledge of English."
她英语已经学得很好。
近义:idea, learning, notion, background, sageness, sapience 反义:nescience, philistinism, unacquaintance, unawareness, unfamiliarity, benightedness

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