含义:
survival sә'vaivәln.
生存, 殘存, 倖存者
a.
賴以生存的
[醫] 生存, 存活, 殘存, 殘存者, 遺物
survival 成语
survival of the fittest
Idiom(s): survival of the fittest
Theme: SURVIVAL
the idea that the most able or fit will survive (while the less able and less fit will perish). (This is used literally as a part of the theory of evolution.)
• In college, it's the survival of the fittest. You have to keep working in order to survive and graduate.
• I don’t give my houseplants very good care, hut the ones I have are really flourishing. It's the survival of the fittest, I guess.
survival of the fittest|fittest|survival
n. phr. The staying alive or in action of the best prepared; often: idea that those living things best able to adjust to life survive and those unable to adjust die out. Life in the old West was often a case of survival of the fittest. With changes in the world's climate, dinosaurs died but many smaller animals lived on. It was survival of the fittest. On the 50-mile hike it was survival of the fittest; only 12 out of 25 Scouts finished.