核心畫面

One way to hold it: still here after the storm has passed. Others did not make it, conditions were against it, and yet this one is still going. Whether it is a person after an accident, a small shop after a bad year, or an old custom after a hundred years, the picture is the same — it lasted through.

可以想成風暴過去之後,它還在。別的沒撐住、條件也不利,但這一個還在繼續。不管主角是出事後活下來的人、撐過寒冬的小店,更多收起可以想成風暴過去之後,它還在。別的沒撐住、條件也不利,但這一個還在繼續。不管主角是出事後活下來的人、撐過寒冬的小店,還是留到今天的老習俗,畫面都一樣——它熬過了那一段。

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

survivalnoun/səˈvaɪ.vəl/

  • 1

    The fact or act of surviving; continued existence or life.

    • His survival in the open ocean was a miracle; he had fully expected to die.
  • 2

    Of, relating to or aiding survival.

    • persecution survival plan
    • His survival kit had all the things he needed in the wilderness.
  • 3

    hobbieslifestylesportsThe avoidance of relegation or demotion to a lower league or division.

    • […] a team that have turned snatching relegation from the jaws of top-flight survival into an art form […]
    • "Before you know it, you find yourself flirting around the relegation places and the season becomes a battle for survival."
  • 4

    anthropologyhuman-sciencessciencesA custom or belief that persists in folklore from earlier times, when the rationale behind it is forgotten.

    • 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.
    • Another survival of marriage by capture is discovered among the Ceylonese, where it is common at royal marriages for the king and queen to throw perfumed balls and squirt scented water at each other.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。