Is a "smoke sauna" (where the logs are burnt in a chimney-less hut, giving plenty of atmosphere but also rather a lot of soot) the ultimate experience or a primitive aberration?

烟熏桑拿浴(在没烟囱的木棚里烧原木，制造大量气体但也有许多烟灰)是顶级享受还是原始做派？

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Unfortunately, it is these primitive models, rather than their sophisticated descendants, that often exert the most influence over the world of policy and practice.

可惜的是，正是这种原始模型，而非它们的尖端衍生品，通常对世界政策和实践有最大的影响。

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Some apparently primitive creatures are turning out to be the descendants of more complex creatures rather than their ancestors.

有些表面上简单的生物原来是比较复杂的生物的后代，而不是复杂生物的祖先。

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In a high-level language, square root might simply be a primitive that you can use rather than you having to go over and code it.

一个高级的语言，平方根可能仅仅,只是你能使用的一个基本要素,而不是你需要去编译它。

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And our technologies of how to get out of that gravity well are really rather primitive.

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He said the study has also confirmed that the bristles on this "rather primitive flesh-eating dinosaur... really were feathers".

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Born in Khyber in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas along the border of Afghanistan, the second of five brothers, he had a rather primitive start.

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