self-preservation
英 ['self,prezə'veiʃən]
美
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- 释义
- 英文词源
- 双语例句
- 英英释意
- 场景例句
释义
英文词源
- self-preservation (n.)
- 1610s, from self- + preservation. First attested in Donne.
双语例句
- 1. He has never exhibited the self-confidence, bordering on arrogance, of his predecessor.
- 他从未表现出他前任的那种近乎傲慢的自信。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. I felt so self-conscious under Luke's mother's intense gaze.
- 在卢克母亲审视的目光下，我感到极不自在。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. She has now changed into a happy, self-confident woman.
- 如今她已经变成一个快乐、自信的女人。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. He is being treated for a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
- 他因开枪自残受伤正在接受治疗。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. She summoned up all her pity for him, to smother her self-pity.
- 她抑制着心中的自怜，将满腔的怜悯之情都倾注在了他的身上。
来自柯林斯例句
英英释意
- 1. preservation of yourself from harm; a natural or instinctive tendency
实用场景例句
- She was held back by some sense of self-preservation.
- 一种自我保护意识使她没有贸然行动。
牛津词典
- The police have the same human urge for self-preservation as the rest of us.
- 警察和我们其他人一样，都有自我保护的人类本能。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Hobbes has ingeniously demonstrated an obligation, grounded solely in self preservation, to submit absolute sovereign.
- 霍布斯天才地论证了一种惟一立基于自我保全而服从于主权者的义务.
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