Survival
[sə'vaɪv(ə)l] or [sɚ'vaɪvl]
解释:
(noun.) something that survives.
(noun.) a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment.
(noun.) a state of surviving; remaining alive.
克拉丽莎校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the existence of, another person, thing, or event; an outliving.
(n.) Any habit, usage, or belief, remaining from ancient times, the origin of which is often unknown, or imperfectly known.
杰拉尔丁校对
例句:
- This principle of preservation, or the survival of the fittest, I have called natural selection. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Competition and survival were accepted as the basal facts of life. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The more tenacious the memory, the richer the supply of image s, the greater the powers of adaptation and survival. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- From this survival of the past, says Bergson, it follows that consciousness cannot go through the same state twice. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Dislike to employ scientific knowledge as it functions in men's occupations is itself a survival of an aristocratic culture. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- As the waters of the planet dried and the seas receded, all other resources dwindled until life upon the planet became a constant battle for survival. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- It examines the instincts that serve so wonderfully the survival of var ious species of insects. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- This process is called _Natural Selection_ or the _Survival of the Fittest_. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- But the expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer, of the Survival of the Fittest, is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- In such hard conditions what are the chara cteristics that would determine the survival of individual or tribe? 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- In the war of extermination that was ever before the great naturalist's eye in South America, what is it that favors a species' survival or determine s its extinction? 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- No animal will change when its conditions are good enough for present survival. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Man's survival does not hinge so greatly upon the perfection of his senses. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The pettifogging objections to some social plan had very little chance of survival owing to the dynamic power of the reformers. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Darwin was well fitted by the comprehensiveness of his observations to deal with the various factors of extinction and survival. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- The militarism and imperialism of Britain and France and Italy are by comparison feeble, disorganized, and disorganizing survivals. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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