一、詳細釋義：

adj.

初級的，基礎(chǔ)的，基本的

例句：

Here it refers to the elementary education that starts with learning to read and getting enlightened.

這里指的是從識字啟蒙開始的基礎(chǔ)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(zhì)。

二、詞義辨析：

elementary,elemental,primary

這些形容詞均含有“基本的”之意。 elementary指屬于事物的初步或起始階段 elemental強調(diào)屬于事物的基礎(chǔ)或本質(zhì)。 primary可與作“初步的，初級”的elementary換用。

三、相關(guān)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(zhì)。

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(shù)題。

You've made a very elementary mistake.

Elementary education should be available to all children.

所有的兒童都應(yīng)當接受初等教育。

Most children go to public elementary and secondary schools.

大多數(shù)孩子上的是公立小學和公立中學。

A proton is an elementary?particle?of matter.

質(zhì)子是物質(zhì)的基本粒子。

The student took a course in elementary math.

那個學生選了一門基礎(chǔ)數(shù)學。

This elementary school is affiliated to a university.

這所小學附屬于一所大學。