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单词 survival mechanism
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survival mechanism in British English

(səˈvaɪvəl ˈmɛkənɪzəm)
noun
something you or your body does automatically, in order to survive in a dangerous or unpleasant situation
Physical stress reactions are very old survival mechanisms.
Music is what I channel my energies through - it's a survival mechanism for me.

Examples of 'survival mechanism' in a sentence
survival mechanism

My survival mechanism that year was to treat having cancer like a journalistic assignment.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
An evolutionary survival mechanism makes the brain interpret diets as periods of famine.
The Sun (2016)
I realised that my only survival mechanism was my own integrity.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It is a survival mechanism, but we control it using our prefrontal cortex.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
That is comedy as bathos, as satirical observation and - above all - as a 'survival mechanism'.
The Times Literary Supplement (2018)
If these fears are an atavistic survival mechanism, they have been scattered in a fearfully random manner across the world's population.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
I think that they have come to the conclusion that opening up their economy and dismantling barriers is a survival mechanism.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It is part of a survival mechanism that has made him a hugely successful batsman.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It is a device that stretches the notion of survival mechanism to an almost absurd degree.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Bending and sometimes hiding truth is a necessary survival mechanism; the only way to rub along with others.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
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