| 单词 | resilient |
| 释义 | resilient (once / 3399 pages) adj When something is strong and able to recover from damage quickly, call it resilient. If you're rough on your toys, the ones that don't break are resilient. Formed from the Latin verb resilīre "to leap back," a resilient person is able to recover from an illness or a bad experience quickly. Politicians who are resilient to media criticism do not let critical journalists affect their focus, performance or relationship to their constituents. An object can be resilient also, but in this case, it is not damaged easily, or it returns to its original good shape quickly. WORD FAMILYresilient: nonresilient, resilience, resiliency, resiliently+/resilience: resiliences USAGE EXAMPLES"And it became resilient to the fungal disease," he says. BBC(Dec 30, 2016) She was less optimistic about how resilient the rest of British society would be to an outbreak. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) “I am confident that democracy will prove resilient in the U.S.,” Washington Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1adj recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like Syn spirited displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness 2adj elastic; rebounding readily as resilient as seasoned hickory Syn bouncy, live, lively, springy elastic capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression; springy |
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