survival

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /səˈvaɪ.vəl/|/səˈvʌɪ.vəl/    美 /sɚˈvaɪ.vəl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The fact or act of surviving; continued existence or life. countable,uncountable
    — His survival in the open ocean was a miracle; he had fully expected to die.
  2. Of, relating to or aiding survival. countable,uncountable
    — persecution survival plan
  3. The avoidance of relegation or demotion to a lower league or division. countable,uncountable
    — […] a team that have turned snatching relegation from the jaws of top-flight survival into an art form […]
  4. A custom or belief that persists in folklore from earlier times, when the rationale behind it is forgotten. countable,uncountable
    — Thus, if some old rhyme or saying has in one place a solemn import in philosophy or religion, while elsewhere it lies at the level of the nursery, there is some ground for treating the serious version as the more original, and the playful one as its mere lingering survival.

词形变化

survivals plural

词汇关系

衍生词
antisurvival cryosurvival mean survival time median survival time neurosurvival nonsurvival Parfitian survival prosurvival self-survival squipper survival analysis survival bag survival bias survival game survival horror survival instinct survivalism survivalist survivalistic survival kit survival knife survival mode survival of the fittest survival rate survival sex survival skill survival statute survival suit survival time survival value urban survival syndrome

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti
Proto-Italic *gʷīwō
Latin vīvō
Latin supervīvereder.
English survive
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
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Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
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Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English survival
From survive + -al.
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