1Not mixed or adulterated with any other substance or material.

汽车可用纯酒精驱动。

这件夹克是纯羊毛的。

1. 1.1 Without any extraneous and unnecessary elements.
   纯一的
   the romantic notion of pure art devoid of social responsibility

   毫无社会责任感的浪漫主义纯艺术观。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • It is predominantly an adaptation of Cotswold vernacular architecture with pure arts and crafts embellishments.
   • I do believe video games are sort of at the heart of a cancer that's eating away at this culture, turning every popular art form into a pure service industry.
   • The plot elements partake of pure melodrama, but the treatment raises the story to another level.
   • The 1970s were the first decade after films went from pure entertainment to art.
   • Yet Widayanto has succeeded in treading the fine line between his pure art creations and his more commercial products.
   • Hitler and the Nazis did it effectively, brutally waging war against decadent surrealists and any other artists or writers they considered an aberration from the pure Aryan ideal of art.
   • Often a piece resembles a pure collage until elements settle into a discernible rhythm pattern or a drumbeat will emerge to anchor the noises swirling around it.
   • When light passes through a spectroscope it breaks into bands of unique colors that represent pure elements.
   • But though it may be trivial in the face of war's absurd brutality, perhaps nothing makes as much sense as the pure beauty of Japanese art.
   • I reach the insane conclusion that mathematics is pure art and I know that it isn't.
   • But, of the pieces I've seen, the pure graphic element doesn't do much on a gut level for me, at least not yet.
   • His action scenes are beautiful capsules of pure kinetic art and grace, fusing his camera movement and his physical choreography into a singular performance.
   • Although not pure art deco, its houses incorporated many of the elements of the style and large whitewashed villas now grace the south side.
   • Such scenes work on the level of stylization and pure martial arts action, and may be appreciated wholly out of context, but the essence of heroism remains elusive.
   • This is pure classic fairy-tale material, and what it may lack in gritty complexity it makes up in primal symbolic resonance.
   • No longer a pure art, it would come to the people as a ruling class ‘art’, conditioned according to some political or religious design.
   • Because her paintings are so artificial and so plainly painted, the viewer can appreciate pure art without the weight of hidden messages.
   • If a person does only judo it seemed that their art turned into pure sport.
   • It's pure art to handle the ‘questioner’ who in fact is giving a mini-speech.
   • Deeply embedded within her mind is a node of pure Elemental energy.

   Synonyms

   sheer, utter, simple, absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, complete, thorough, total, perfect, consummate, unmitigated, unqualified, palpable, patent
2. 1.2 Free of any contamination.
   纯净的；洁净的，无垢的
   the pure, clear waters of Montana

   苏格兰的纯净清澈水域。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • I still haven't got to the bottom of it, but my guess is that it was the heady combination of utterly pure water and deliciously clean air.
   • You start with water and end with water, pure and unpolluting.
   • Care was taken to use pure water in the chamber because most contaminants tend to lower the water vapor pressure.
   • Valerie and Noel Trezise will offer you a wide range of pure sweet natural honey free of additives or preservatives.
   • In the 17th century a well was discovered on Ilkley Moor, according to folklore, by a shepherd who bathed his injured leg in the water and the pure water cleaned the wound and cured him!
   • Where is the crystal clear, pure, unpolluted water that once characterized the river as well as most shallow wells in the area?
   • If the water has strange smell, you should use pure bottled water.
   • In a new bowl, place one pound of sugar with pure clean water.
   • He adopted a mostly vegetarian diet, cutting out sugar and saturated fat, taking antioxidants, herbal and soy supplements and drinking tons of pure water and green tea.
   • The success of destroying all microorganisms capable of growing in canned food is based on the temperature obtained in pure steam, free of air, at sea level.
   • It is very important to find quality water filters so that you can drink clean and pure water.
   • Growing wild in the pure and unpolluted waters of W. Ireland, the watercress is of exceptional quality.
   • The Government schemes to provide pure drinking water has not benefited the people living in the remote villages.
   • Its light began to fade away, and kept fading until they were just looking at a pail full of pure, unpolluted water.
   • Announce prizes like free tankers of pure water till the end of summer and free coaching for IIT foundation and medicine foundation.
   • Organic meat is from animals that have been raised on a pure organic diet feed and pasture.
   • One of the psychics passed around a canteen full of clean, pure water, which Veon accepted gratefully.
   • While driving along the winding and narrow Norwegian roads alongside a fjord we came to a massive glacier towering across the clearest expanse of pure turquoise water.
   • He fought tenaciously for pure water, clean air, and the free use of condoms on the NHS.
   • Thousands of restoration projects in rural areas need millions of trees to provide clean air, pure water, and improved wildlife habitat.

   Synonyms

   clean, clear, fresh, crisp, refreshing, sparkling, unpolluted, untainted, unadulterated, uncontaminated
3. 1.3 Wholesome and untainted by immorality, especially that of a sexual nature.
   纯洁的，清白的；贞洁的
   our fondness for each other is pure and innocent

   我们之间的好感是纯洁的、真诚的。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • My heart is pure and unsullied by such base, unromantic notions.
   • Your father was a handsome well-built man, pure of heart.
   • Unicorns are renowned for their pickiness, only allowing human and elfin maidens of pure heart to ride them.
   • It can only be banished by a maiden of pure heart and the daughter of Zeus so Rena must be present
   • Though he was not stupid, nor naïve, I told myself that he was like a child, ears, heart and mind pure and untainted with the thought of bloodshed and abuse.
   • She smelled like sorrow, and bitterness, and pain had never touched her, leaving her pure and untainted.
   • Rather, they represent a genuine science of mind, a science of insight that uncovers the pure nature of the mind and world that we experience.
   • This is where the deepest transformation can take place, untainted and pure.
   • What I do know within my heart is that the light from the source is untainted and pure, and I call it divine love.
   • But Lincoln gets no credit for the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, because he didn't do it out of the pure goodness of his heart?
   • Children are just the best thing there ever can be, the essence of innocence, their pure little hearts and minds not yet infected by our corrupt cold world.
   • This spell is the ultimate technique that can be used only by those who have a pure and untainted soul.
   • From this standpoint, rural people and their culture represent a negation of everything that is wholesome and pure about nature.
   • He personified the pure, blissful soul nature they sought and sensed as the center of themselves.
   • Power always brings the need to compromise one's ideals, so what right had Benn to claim after the event that he remained pure and untainted?
   • Our country needs men with ‘clean’ hands, pure hearts and a vision for the future, clearly written in honesty and integrity.
   • Why the attraction to athletes who are still pure and untainted and don't have big, you know, contracts?
   • We need to be morally upright, like chaste virgins before God, pure and clean.
   • It is possible even in the midst of intense illness and the dying process to contact this fundamentally pure and wholesome state of mind.
   • Give us courage, O Lord, in the face of danger, keep us pure in heart, clean in mind, and strong in purpose.

   Synonyms

   virtuous, moral, ethical, good, righteous, angelic, saintly, pious, honourable, reputable, wholesome, clean, honest, upright, upstanding, exemplary, above reproach, irreproachable, innocent
4. 1.4 (of a sound) perfectly in tune and with a clear tone.
   （声音）纯正的
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Sieden and Baker sing with pure tone and true, perhaps a bit naïve, fostering the illusion that they're just very good local soloists.
   • Intent upon moving beyond notes and creating pure sound, he borrowed from African, Indian, and Middle Eastern sources.
   • Though Carter hasn't lost his love of the lyric as pure sound, the sentiments here come from the heart more than the head.
   • It's the deep, dark keening sound of the cello, the twilight voicings of the piano and the perfect, pure pitch of Paula Morelenbaums creamy voice.
   • It's not related to the band because it isn't music in any shape or form, just anguished, terrifying pure sound.
   • The pure, high tones of the sopranos were ravishing.
   • At only 23 she already produces a pure clear sound which soared above the orchestra, refusing to be overpowered.
   • In fact, he had invented an amazing type of speaker that really allowed pure sound to come through.
   • A few of the audience may have wandered away with the feeling that too little of this gave us a pure, beguiling Monteverdi sound.
   • Levy's glistening cascades of tonal warmth were pure instrumental bel canto.
   • One may disregard or actively listen for the words, feel how they combine with the music, but it is hard not to hear them as something other and more than pure musical sound.
   • ‘I wanted a nice bass sound - something that's in your face and not the sweet and pure sound of the traditional harp,’ she said.
   • Anthony Marwood is perfectly suited to tackle these two contrasting works, displaying a tone and intonation that is pure and sensitive.
   • In fact, I'm so glad you asked me that question because that's another thing that would concern people is the fact that I'm not making a pure sound.
   • Each section was totally integrated, the sounds were pure and precise.
   • We rarely hear a pure fundamental tone either in music or in nature.
   • I couldn't tell what the guy vocalist's words were, but the tone quality was amazing, a full and pure sound.
   • Yet, unlike Mahler, you chose not pure orchestral Lieder performed by a singer.
   • The width of the bore and the large diameter of the tone holes gives it a strong, pure sound, invaluable to the military band and to the swing and dance big bands.
   • The tune was so pure, it reminded Katrina of all the good things in life.
5. 1.5 (of an animal or plant) of unmixed origin or descent.
   （动植物）纯种的
   the pure Charolais is white or light wheat in the coat

   纯种的夏洛来牛的皮毛是白色或淡黄色的。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Didi is a registered pure-bred gold schipperke, the colour of a golden fox, with foxy ears and a pointy foxy snout.
   • They showed six-year-old Folds Veronica - one of six pure-bred Cleveland Bay mares they keep at their farm in Godshill.
   • Last year the club reared and released into natural environments over 400 pure-bred mallard duck and 1,000 pheasant.
   • Scheduled for March 23, the international program features seven races worth a total of $15,250,000, a figure that includes $250,000 for a pure-bred Arabian race.
   • If the alpaca is indeed a descendant of the vicuna, geneticists might be able to identify pure-bred alpacas and guide new breeding programs to improve the quality of alpaca fleece.
   • Xiao Yan's favorite pet is a pure-bred cat, which she purchased for 16,000 RMB. ‘Each month, I have to spend a few hundred dollars on essential care for the cat,’ she said.
   • If you're showing, check any relevant breed society guidelines first - pure-bred Arabs and natives should be shown with full, unplaited manes, whilst part-breds should have their manes pulled and plaited.
   • The seed project was started last year to produce different varieties of quality, pure-bred mahangu (pearl millet), sorghum, maize, groundnut and cowpea seed, adapted to the needs of local farmers.
   • She now has her own horse, Luke, a pure-bred Arab, and trains on him three times a week.
   • Of course he was pure puppy to Mr. Comolli, but we knew that Spook wanted our flesh in chunky pieces hanging from his slavering jaws.
   • The piglets are the first pure-bred Gloucesters to be born on the farm - one of the north west's top tourist attractions - for nearly 10 years.
   • The 28 student judges identified 16 matches out of the 25 pure-bred dogs, but they could not match mixed-breed dogs and their masters.
   • The family also had the supreme and reserve pens of pure-bred Texels and took the best single butcher's lamb award.
   • Some does are ‘strategically’ mated, but most just spend an afternoon in a private stall with one of the farm's many thick-nosed, pure-bred bucks.
   • In 1876, William and his wife returned to Bell Block where he started his celebrated model farm on Corbett Road, breeding pure-bred Jersey cattle.
   • A Laois family of doglovers is searching for their pure-bred Springer Spaniel and say they would pay anything to get him back.
   • A record 80 pure-bred stallions were on parade and the biggest turnout of vintage tractors and other vehicles were on show.
   • With pure-bred pups selling for as much as £500, dealing involving Labradors, Shih Tzus, German Shepherds, Spaniels and other breeds brought in from Ireland and Eastern Europe is a growing, multimillion-pound business.
   • We also compared the mean expression level in hybrids relative to pure species between male-specific genes and all other genes.
   • Iceland has these pure-bred horses that haven't changed in 900 years.

   Synonyms

   pedigree, thoroughbred, full, full-bred, pure-blooded, blooded, pedigreed, genuine
6. 1.6 (of a subject of study) dealing with abstract concepts and not practical application.
   （学科）纯理论的
   a theoretical discipline such as pure physics

   理论物理学等理论学科。比较APPLIED。

   Compare with applied

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Much of university research was pure research that had no obvious application at all at the time of its funding.
   • I tend to think that the separation of application and pure research is the hallmark of poor ethics.
   • The intervening years had seen advances in the study of pure biology at the microscopic level in parallel with advances in genetics.
   • There is always a tension between the pursuit of pure academic research and the demands of society at large.
   • Prosser studied pure maths at Aberystwyth and might have gone into teaching if the money had not persuaded him to become an actuary like his brother.
   • But I operate in the sphere of practical politics not pure economic theory.
   • I believe in both the pure research & practical application of encryption theory.
   • The pure mathematician abstracts from physical situations certain quantitative aspects of bodies and their relations, and deals exclusively with these aspects.
   • It was a platform both for engineering and systems development studies and for pure scientific research.
   • The more think tanks become concerned about shaping the political agenda, the less time they can focus on pure research.
   • I've done a small amount of summer research in physics and I'm uncertain if pure physics research is something I'd enjoy doing for another 3 or 4 years.
   • Pure academic research and big science attract an even different personality type.

   Synonyms

   theoretical, abstract, conceptual, academic, hypothetical, philosophical, speculative, conjectural, non-practical, non-technical
7. 1.7Phonetics (of a vowel) not joined with another to form a diphthong.
   〔语音〕（元音）单音的，纯音的
   Example sentencesExamples

   • There are 14 pure [uncombined] vowels in English.
   • You will sound fairly good if your teacher's modeling elicits a free sound that is well-focused on pure vowels.
   • While "pure" vowels, or monophthongs, are said to have one target tongue position, diphthongs have two target tongue positions.
8. 1.8attributive Involving or containing nothing else but; sheer (used for emphasis)
   强调用语单纯的，仅仅的；完全的，十足的
   a shout of pure anger

   完全出于愤怒的呼喊。

   an outcome that may be a matter of pure chance

   也许纯属偶然的结果。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • They have done so as a result of pure graft and sheer talent.
   • He saw it in his eyes, the pure utter anger that Noriel had for his son, and suddenly he felt it.
   • It is in fact just a chain of events, brought about by pure chance that forms the raison d' être for this result.
   • For a moment, his anger concentrated on pure, soulless insatiable carnal hunger and desire, which was the cause of all his suffering.
   • And what he saw to his sheer amazement was pure anger.
   • ‘Good,’ she continued sweetly, and then he blinked as her expression morphed into pure and utter anger.
   • It's way more punk, way more lyrical, but more than all, it's rooted in despair and sheer rage and pure joy in celebrating humanity.
   • My face, I'm sure, is that of pure terror and anger right now.
   • Like all caricatures, this book overstates its case about the contribution of pure chance to scientific breakthroughs.
   • I found it by pure chance and I ask you all humbly to please go read and consider helping this man in a time of real need.
   • On my first day at work, by pure chance my work was having a ‘think tank’ conference for the day at a conference centre in the city.
   • Two escapees once stumbled upon the oasis by a sheer chance and pure luck, thus becoming the parents of the somber population.
   • To ignore this is to run your business on a wing and a prayer, which is pure chance and takes your destiny out of your own hands.
   • An inquiry launched by Barnsley health chiefs concluded there was no link between the deaths and it appeared to be pure chance that the cluster had appeared.
   • He appears to be unable to grasp the difference between receiving money through pure chance and through inheritance.
   • Kimberley gaped in disbelief and what looked like pure fury at the sheer bitchiness of the other girl in the room, and Clay was seeing red as I stood up.
   • Then began three months of hard work, and long nights mixed with sheer panic and pure delight that this project was becoming a reality.
   • By pure chance, I also received a letter from the UK today.
   • Finding your golf ball in there is quite simply a case of pure chance.
   • Arendri who had never raised his voice like that in pure absolute anger had just bit the head off of the one person they all despised.

   Synonyms

   sheer, utter, simple, absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, complete, thorough, total, perfect, consummate, unmitigated, unqualified, palpable, patent