survival

英 [sə'vaɪvl] 美 [sər'vaɪvl]

• n. 幸存；幸存者；生存；残存物，幸存物；【人类学】(失去原有意义、作用的)残存文化特征

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [U] 幸存; 生存

   the fact or likelihood of surviving

2. [C] 残存的人〔物〕; 遗物; 遗风

   person, thing, custom, belief, etc. that has survived from an earlier time

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 幸存，幸存者，幸存物
2. 生存，存活，生死存亡
3. 残存，残余，残存物，残存者
4. 遗风
5. 遗物
6. 成活（植株）
7. 遗存
8. 延续
9. 贪图活命
10. 生命的保障
11. 救生（措施）
12. 适者生存

英英释义

Noun:

1. a state of surviving; remaining alive

2. a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment

3. something that survives

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. Hopes are fading for the survival of the missing climbers.
   失踪的登山者幸存的希望越来越渺茫。
2. The miraculous survival of some people in the air crash was widely reported by the press.
   空难事件中有些人大难不死被新闻界广泛报导。
3. She is the only survival in the accident.
   她是事故中的惟一幸存者。
4. Survival is our first imperative.
   我们当务之急是设法生存下来。
5. We need food and water for survival.
   我们为了生存需要食物和水。
6. That fashion is a survival from the 1930s.
   那种时装是三十年代的遗风。
7. The use of ashes in church is a survival from an ancient rite.
   教堂使用灰烬是一种古代仪式的遗留物。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. The doctors told my wife I had a fifty-fifty chance of survival.
   医生告诉我的妻子,说我活下去的可能性只有50%。
2. They are still fighting for survival.
   他们还在为生存而斗争。
3. We all have a strong survival instinct.
   每个人都有强烈的求生本能。
4. The old man was a survival of a past age.
   这位老人是上一代的遗老。
5. Most of these ceremonies are survivals from earlier times.
   这些礼仪活动大部分是从古代沿袭下来的。

经典引文

• The hospital seemed to think his chances of survival were fifty-fifty.

  出自： A. N. Wilson

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

～+介词

• survival from ancient times 古代遗物〔遗风〕
• the survival of the fittest 适者生存

近反义词

【近义词】

• endurance 忍耐
• existence 存在
• being 存在
• subsistence 生存
• persistence 坚持
• selection 选择
• natural selection [生]自然选择...
• survival of the fittest 适者生存