elementary

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el·e·men·ta·ry /ˌeləˈmentəri◂/ adjectiveadj

1 SIMPLE/NOT COMPLICATEDsimple or basic 简单的；基本的

the elementary principles of justice and democracy

正义和民主的基本信条

You’ve made a very elementary mistake.

你犯了一个非常基本的错误。

2 [only before noun]BEGINNING concerning the first and easiest part of a subject 基础的，初级的 → intermediate, advanced

I’m only familiar with the subject at an elementary level.

我对这门学科的了解只是初级水平。

I know a little elementary science.

我懂一点基础科学。

3 [only before noun] American EnglishAmESES relating to elementary school 小学的 SYN British English primary

elementary education

小学教育

4. Elementary, my dear Watson.my dear Watson. Elementary people sometimes use this expression humorously to say how easy something is to solve. Some people think that the phrase comes from the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes says this to his friend Watson when explaining how easy it is to understand something about a crime. In fact, the phrase does not appear in the books. 这很简单，我亲爱的华生。〔幽默用法，表示某事非常容易解决；有人认为此短语出自福尔摩斯系列故事，但书中其实并无此语〕

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elementary• Billy is taking elementary algebra this year.• Thom identifies seven elementary catastrophes as the only possible results when not more than four control factors are present.• In many elementary classrooms there is a good deal of affection for children and various opportunities for active, hands-on learning.• an elementary course in word-processing• The 1988 Education Reform Act ought to mark the end of elementary education for the under-11s.• elementary education• So the question is: What are the truly elementary particles, the basic building blocks from which everything is made?• How powerful this explosion would be would depend on how many different species of elementary particles there are.• The right to defend itself is an elementary right of every state.• She had difficulty with even the most elementary tasks.• Most were given elementary training in another technical skill to facilitate harmony and cross-utilization.

elementary education• Hence there was an extension of the powers of local government and the state intervened after 1870 to provide universal elementary education.• It is no use trying to give technical teaching to our artisans without elementary education ...• They spend six years in elementary education and three years in junior high school.• There was universal elementary education in Britain - a century behind Prussia, and three behind Saxony.• The specialists in elementary education meanwhile focus their attention on the methods and materials appropriate to elementary years.• In Brown v. Board of Education, which dealt specifically with elementary education, the Court took the final logical step.• Then, at last, elementary education will dies.• There was no association of elementary education with a prescribed period of childhood.

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