caveman stage

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The early or primitive developmental stage.
    — What is life? What are the limitations of knowledge? Compared with the caveman's, our knowledge is vast, but compared with what there is to know, the wisest of men are still at the caveman stage.

词形变化

caveman stages plural

词源

From the notion that early humans dwelled in caves. The word caveman has later developed figurative senses with a connotation of primitiveness.
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