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单词 survival
释义 sur·viv·al
\sə(r)ˈvīvəl\ noun
(-s)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: survive + -al
1.
 a. : the action of living longer than another person or beyond something (as a time, event, development, or condition)
  < the wife's survival of her husband >
  < the survival of the soul after death >
 b. : the continuance of something (as a custom) after the end of the period of the cessation of the conditions in which it had significance
 c. : the continuation of life or existence in the presence of or despite usually difficult conditions
  < the biological needs of survival and reproduction — Flanders Dunbar >
  < problems of survival in arctic conditions >
2.
 a. : one that survives or remains after others of its kind have disappeared : one that continues to exist after the cessation of something : a surviving individual or remnant
  < survivals of classical sculpture which … existed in Byzantium — O. Elfrida Saunders >
 b. : a culture trait remaining from former times but with diminished significance or with a function or utility meaningful only in terms of past history
 c. : a linguistic feature that has escaped extinction or has resisted change
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