| 单词 | resilience |
| 释义 | resilience (once / 8237 pages) n Truly, your resilience, or ability to bounce back, is not just admirable, but foolhardy, some might say; who else could have survived an attack by a rabid toucan and then gone on to become a world-renowned bird breeder? The noun resilience stems from the Latin resiliens “to rebound, recoil.” As a character trait, resilience is a person’s ability to recover quickly from unfortunate circumstances or illness. Runners who fall during a marathon only to pop back up and dash through the finish line show some serious resilience. Or Silly Putty that can stretch and stretch without breaking, and then come back to rest inside its egg-shaped carrying case — that’s resilience, or elasticity, for you. WORD FAMILYresilience: resiliences+/resilient: nonresilient, resilience, resiliency, resiliently USAGE EXAMPLESThis was more a story of resilience, of surviving a nightmarish third quarter and finding some kind of resolve in the closing minutes. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) The coaches and players use the word “resilience” to explain it without really explaining it. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Yet there is a resilience to this Stoke team. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) 1n the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit Syn|Hyper resiliency elasticity, snap the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed 2n an occurrence of rebounding or springing back Syn|Hyper resiliency backlash, rebound, recoil, repercussion a movement back from an impact |
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