elemental
adj[esp attrib 尤作定语]
1 (fml 文) powerful; uncontrolled; like the forces of nature 强劲的; 失去控制的; 似自然力的
the elemental fury of the storm 暴风雨的肆虐.
2 basic 基本的: an elemental truth 基本事实.
Your wife would not be pleased to hear you say that.
你的妻子听到你那么说是会不高兴的。
One man was told to fix up an air-line to provide compressed air for the machines they were using.
有个工人被派去安装"供气管",给他们正在使用的机器提供压缩空气。
Twelve days later, millions more Indians lined the railway tracks as a slow train took the jar containing his ashes 584 kilometres to a place by the river.