Crude

(adj.) not processed or subjected to analysis; 'raw data'; 'the raw cost of production'; 'only the crude vital statistics' .

(adj.) conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; 'coarse language'; 'a crude joke'; 'crude behavior'; 'an earthy sense of humor'; 'a revoltingly gross expletive'; 'a vulgar gesture'; 'full of language so vulgar it should have been edited' .

(adj.) belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; 'the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man'; 'primitive movies of the 1890s'; 'primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains' .

(adj.) not carefully or expertly made; 'managed to make a crude splint'; 'a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them'; 'rough carpentry' .

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• It is said that as far back as 1835 Stratingh and Becker, of Groeningen, and in 1836 Botto, of Turin, constructed crude electric carriages. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Only by starting with crude material and subjecting it to purposeful handling will he gain the intelligence embodied in finished material. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Hadn't they better be animals, simple animals, crude, violent, ANYTHING, rather than this self-consciousness, this incapacity to be spontaneous. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• How is Crude Rubber Received Here? 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Our first crude patent law was enacted in 1790, but not until 1836 was the present system adopted. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Scattered over the country one still finds isolated charcoal kilns, crude earthen receptacles, in which wood thus deprived of air was allowed to smolder and form charcoal. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Food--that was the problem of those long tired years which dragged through the ages, when nearly everyone was a farmer, and a farmer with crude tools held in his hands. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• But everything in the Roman state was earlier, cruder, and clumsier; the injustices were more glaring, the conflicts harsher. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Reduced to its barest, crudest terms, the proposition of magnetic separation is simplicity itself. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The harnesses of the farmer's and labouring man's horses a century ago, when they were fortunate enough to own horses, were of the crudest description. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The crudest of writers could invent nothing more crude. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• In general, however, the salt made from crude salt rock is only fit for the crudest commercial uses. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The small arm of the previous period, the old Brown Bess, used in the British army for 150 years, was a muzzle-loading, flint-lock musket of the crudest make. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The indicating instruments were of the crudest construction, consisting of two voltmeters connected by pressure wires to the centre of electrical distribution. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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