survival是什么意思？

survival

英[səˈvaɪvl] 美[sərˈvaɪvl]

• n. 幸存，生存，幸存者，遗物，遗风；

复数：survivals;

例句

• The old man was a survival of a past age. 这位老人是上一代的遗老。
• We all have a strong survival instinct. 每个人都有强烈的求生本能。
• They are still fighting for survival. 他们还在为生存而斗争。
• The doctor 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%。
• Human beings are infinitely flexible and able to adjust when survival depends on it. 人类的适应能力是无穷尽的，为了生存可以适应任何环境。
• The campaign will hopefully ensure the survival of the tiger. 这场运动有望确保老虎的生存。
• Commercial exploitation of resources threatens our survival. 开发自然资源作商业用途威胁我们的生活。
• Clean - cultivation reduces vole survival and reproduction. 无覆盖耕作可减少田鼠的存活和繁殖.
• Ancient people made clay pottery because they needed it for their survival. 古代人制作陶器是因为他们的生存需要它.
• This will speed up the process of reshuffling the survival of the fittest. 这就加快优胜劣汰洗牌的过程.

词组

• survival of the fittest
  (Biology)the continued existence of organisms which are best adapted to their environment, with the extinction of others, as a concept in the Darwinian theory of evolution (生)（达尔文进化论中的）适者生存。 比较natural selection

英语四级真题

Everybody needs some sleep for survival.
出自-2014年6月听力原文

英语六级真题

After World War Ⅱ, the academic world turned with new enthusiasm to humanistic studies, which seemed to many scholars the best way to ensure the survival of democracy.
出自-2010年12月阅读原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-UNCOUNT
  生存
  If you refer to the survival of something or someone, you mean that they manage to continue or exist in spite of difficult circumstances.
  例句
  ...companies which have been struggling for survival in the advancing recession... 在日益萧条的经济环境中挣扎求生的各个公司 Ask for the free booklet 'Debt: a Survival Guide'. 可以索要免费小册子《债务：生存指南》。
• N-UNCOUNT
  幸存;存活
  If you refer to the survival of a person or living thing, you mean that they live through a dangerous situation in which it was possible that they might die.
  例句
  If cancers are spotted early there's a high chance of survival... 如果癌症在早期发现的话，存活的几率会很高。 An animal's sense of smell is still crucial to its survival. 动物的嗅觉对其生存仍然至关重要。
• PHRASE
  适者生存
  You can use the survival of the fittest to refer to a situation in which only the strongest people or things continue to live or be successful, while the others die or fail.

英汉词典释义

• n.
  幸存, 生存
  The doctor 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%。 They are still fighting for survival. 他们还在为生存而斗争。 We all have a strong survival instinct. 每个人都有强烈的求生本能。
  残存的人[物]; 遗物; 遗风
  The old man was a survival of a past age. 这位老人是上一代的遗老。 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。

英英词典释义

• 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