詞彙精選：elementary的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義：
adj.
初級的，基礎的，基本的
例句：
Here it refers to the elementary education that starts with learning to read and getting enlightened.
這裏指的是從識字啓蒙開始的基礎教育。
例句：
The new laws deprived many people of the most elementary freedoms.
新法律剝奪了許多人的最基本的自由。
簡單的，容易的
例句：
Of course it had to start with the most elementary things.
當然這必須從最簡單的事情做起。
【化】元素的
例句：
Tin is an elementary substance.
錫是一種元素物質。
二、詞義辨析：
elementary,elemental,primary
這些形容詞均含有“基本的”之意。elementary指屬於事物的初步或起始階段elemental強調屬於事物的基礎或本質。primary可與作“初步的，初級”的elementary換用。
三、相關短語：
elementary education
初等教育,小學教育
elementary particle
n.[核]基本粒子
elementary school
n.1.小學
elementary geometry
初等幾何(學)
四、參考例句：
elementary education
初等教育
Tin is an elementary substance.
錫是一種元素物質。
Is he in elementary school?
他在上小學嗎？
His classmates were labouring with elementary algebra.
他的同學們正在絞盡腦汁地演算初等代數題。
You've made a very elementary mistake.
Elementary education should be available to all children.
所有的兒童都應當接受初等教育。
Most children go to public elementary and secondary schools.
大多數孩子上的是公立小學和公立中學。
A proton is an elementary particle of matter.
質子是物質的基本粒子。
The student took a course in elementary math.
那個學生選了一門基礎數學。
This elementary school is affiliated to a university.
這所小學附屬於一所大學。
