Although life is, in essence, a complicated form of carbon chemistry, living creatures cannot process carbon in its elemental form.(盡管生物本質上是碳元素組成的各種形式，但是生物不能用自身的基本構成來處理碳元素。)

Even nitrogen, which is a gas in its elemental state, is normally absorbed from the soil as nitrate ions.(即使是元素狀態為氣體的氮，也通常作為硝酸根離子從土壤中被吸收。)

Each elemental unit has a simple layout consisting of a rectangular box and a triangular roof.(每個元素單元都有一個包括矩形框架和三角形屋頂的簡單布局。)

Gasification liberates this in its elemental form, making it easy to recover.(氣化讓硫釋放成其基本形式，讓它更容易還原。)

Most of these are what microformats designers call elemental microformats, which are those constructed entirely within an element.(其中大部分是微格式開發人員所稱的基本微格式(elementalmicroformats)，基本微格式就是完全在某個元素內部構造而成的微格式。)

A change in the choreography facilitates more easily than a change in the implementation of an elemental service.(編排中的更改比基本服務實現中的更改更簡單。)

"Social norms are primitive and elemental," says Dr. Robert Cialdini, author of Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.(“社會規范是原始的和基本的。”羅伯特·恰爾迪尼，《影響力：說服的心理學》的作者說。)

These programmes seem to plug into an elemental curiosity that is Shared by all age groups and classes.(這些節目似乎開啟了觀眾們所共有的基本好奇之心，無論他們來自于哪個年齡層次，或出身于何種社會階層。)

The elemental services, used by the service choreography layer and also by user interface applications, are implemented by service applications.(基本服務(由服務編排層使用，也由用戶界面應用程序使用)通過服務應用程序實現。)

After hours, days, of elemental splendour, it's bracing to see the seaside grow suddenly productive and menacing.(在經過長時間浸染在大自然的美景中，突然在海邊看到人類生產活動的跡象令人耳目一新。)

Amphitrite appears in the Odyssey only as an elemental power.