survival

His only chance of survival was a heart transplant.

只有进行心脏移植，他才有望活下去。

Maternal age affects the baby's survival rate.

母亲的年龄影响婴儿的成活率。

Instead the sportsmen set off to test their skill against prey that were no longer essential to their survival, to be sure, the kill may have been eaten, but there were other, much simpler ways of obtaining a meaty meal.

相反，运动员们开始用已经不是他们生存必需的猎物来测试他们的技术，可以肯定的是，被杀死的猎物可能已经被吃掉了，但是还有其他更简单的方法来获得肉食。

The ceremony is a survival from pre-Christian times.

这种仪式是从公元前遗留下来的。

Yesterday's meeting was intended to plot a survival strategy for the party.

昨天的会议旨在制订该党的生存策略。

After driving many of the animals around them to near extinction, people were forced to abandon their old way of life for a radically new survival strategy that resulted in widespread starvation and disease.

在把他们周围的许多动物逼到濒临灭绝的边缘后，人们被迫放弃了他们原有的生活方式，转而采用一种全新的生存策略，这导致了大范围的饥荒和疾病。