primeval
(also primaeval), adj [usu attrib 通常作定语]
(a) of the earliest period of the history of the world 太古时代的
primeval rocks 太古的岩石.
(b) very ancient 远古的; 原始的
primeval forests, ie natural forests, where trees have never been cut down 原始森林.
(c) based on instinct rather than reason, as if from the earliest period of the human race 出於原始之天性的; 基於人类固有之本能的
It aroused strange primeval yearnings in him. 这使他产生了奇怪的、 基於人类固有之本能的强烈欲望.