self-preservation
英 ['self,prez?'vei??n]
美
- n. 自衛本能，自我保護；自我保存
實用場景例句
- She was held back by some sense of self-preservation.
- 一種自我保護意識使她沒有貿然行動。
牛津詞典
- The police have the same human urge for self-preservation as the rest of us.
- 警察和我們其他人一樣，都有自我保護的人類本能。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- Hobbes has ingeniously demonstrated an obligation, grounded solely in self preservation, to submit absolute sovereign.
- 霍布斯天才地論證了一種惟一立基于自我保全而服從于主權者的義務.
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