The primitive meaning may be narrowed, broadened or completely altered in the process of being used.

原始意义在使用过程中或缩小或扩大，有的甚至完全改变。

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The persevering inflexibility of that weak, yet indomitable grass, showed a primitive magnificence and beauty which helped me vividly realize the real essence and true meaning of life.

那些弱小但又顽强不屈的草儿，以其锲而不舍的执著，昭示出一种原始的壮美，使我真切地感悟到人生的真谛和生命的意义！

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This is an aesthetic distillation of the innermost meaning embedded in these myths, and reflected the primitive people's wish to be in harmony with the nature world.

从美学逻辑上升华了这些神话传说所包含的深层意识，反映了先民们在精神活动中追求与自然界协调、和谐的意愿。

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And scholarship of the nineteenth century and most of the twentieth century is generally characterized by a deep-seated bias that views impurity rules as primitive and irrational taboos, and sacrifice as controlled savagery that's empty of any spiritual meaning.

十九世纪和二十世纪的大部分时期,学术界都有一个,很深层的偏见，那就是认为不纯的规则是,原始且无理的，献祭是野蛮人才干得出来的,无任何精神意义的活动。

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