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survival

/ser-vahy-vuhl/US // sərˈvaɪ vəl //UK // (səˈvaɪvəl) //

生存

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act or fact of surviving, especially under adverse or unusual circumstances.
    • : a person or thing that survives or endures, especially an ancient custom, observance, belief, or the like.
    • : Anthropology. the persistence of a cultural trait, practice, or the like long after it has lost its original meaning or usefulness.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or for use in surviving, especially under adverse or unusual circumstances: survival techniques.

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Examples

  • Realizing that a company whose survival I care about was involved in this craziness made me stop laughing and start thinking.

  • Lean in to loving relationshipsRight now — while we’re in survival mode — is not the ideal time to try to muddle through problems with complex relationships if you can avoid it.

  • The ongoing anxieties over soldiers’ survival joined the horror of influenza to produce a flood of conspiracy theories.

  • For one, the survival rate for younger cancer patients has improved dramatically.

  • Especially when you’re in survival mode, and just trying to get through it.

  • With chemotherapy, her doctors give her at least an 80 percent chance of survival.

  • She is using this technique, which generations of African-Americans have used for survival, for fame and profit.

  • My survival no longer offers the time, but to see others expressing frustration they can barely put into words is helpful.

  • James brought little in the way of survival skills, but his companionship at night raised the team morale.

  • Her hold on her position at the hospital—and thus, her survival—is tenuous and she knows it.

  • The moment that we introduce the operation of human volition and activity, that, too, becomes one of the factors of "survival."

  • In the milk teeth of man we have another useless and often annoying survival of an ancient state of the dental organs.

  • Its most probable explanation is that it appears as a passing survival of the first permanent coat of hair of the lower mammals.

  • There is great perseverance, aye, moral courage of no mean order, in his survival in the movement.

  • Mr. Douce thinks the custom of choosing valentines was a survival from the Roman feast of the Lupercalia.