survival of the fittest
适者生存,优胜劣汰
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- : natural selection.
- : a 19th-century concept of human society, inspired by the principle of natural selection, postulating that those who are eliminated in the struggle for existence are the unfit.
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France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
With chemotherapy, her doctors give her at least an 80 percent chance of survival.
Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
The Dallas Cowboys sell out their state-of-the art football stadium.
Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
You never know when you are going to stumble upon a jewel in the most out-of-the-way corner.
But Lessard's a overbearin' son-of-a-gun all round, and he's always breakin' out in a new place.
Mr. Slocum was not educated in a university, and his life has been in by-paths, and out-of-the-way places.
The Spanish men-of-war, which were always painted white, had their colour changed to dark grey like the American ships.