self-preservation

noun

1. 自我保存；自我保护
   the fact of protecting yourself in a dangerous or difficult situation
   1. 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。

1. N-UNCOUNT 自我保全;自我保护
   Self-preservation is the action of keeping yourself safe or alive in a dangerous situation, often without thinking about what you are doing.
   1. 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。

1. 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。
2. Heroic sacrifice in war does not contradict self-preservation: they are opposite and complementary.
   战争中勇敢牺牲和保存自己并不矛盾，二者是相反相成的。
3. This is a moment when the instinct of self-preservation emits howls, when the beast re-appears in men.
   这时保全自己的本能使他们发出嗥叫，人又重新回复到动物的状态。
4. It may seem cruel, but the goal is nothing short of self-preservation& survival.
   shortof这里指除了什么以外，即除了自保也就是生存之外任何都不是目的。
5. These days, it is an act of self-preservation.
   如今，这是一种自我保护的手段。
6. In a situation like that, every instinct pushes us towards self-preservation.
   在那样的情境下，每一种本都会推动我们进行自我保护。
7. This can destabilize the marriage: When his mother and his wife are battling, a man's self-preservation instinct tells him to hide.
   而这可能会破坏婚姻的稳定：当母亲和妻子开战，男人自我保护的本能会告诉他能躲多远是多远。
8. In recruiting an agent or 'asset,' we were asking him to ignore the instinct of self-preservation, to break the laws of his own country ─ to become a traitor.
   在招募特工或线人时，我们要求他要无视保全自我的本能，要违反自己国家的法律&做一名叛国者。
9. The purpose of the former is self-preservation, of the latter the destruction of the enemy.
   前者为了保存自己，后者为了消灭敌人。
10. Rufus: Telling a woman you like her clothes isn't lying. It's self-preservation.
    鲁弗斯：告诉女人你喜欢她的着装不是说谎，而是自保。
11. Black oozes do not appear concerned with self-preservation, and some theorize they cannot feel pain.
    黑色淤泥似乎并不关心自我保护，一些人认为它们无法感觉到疼痛。
12. But neither justice nor self-preservation demands that we kill men whom we have already imprisoned.
    但是无论正义还是自我保护都没有要求我们处死已被监禁的囚犯。
13. It is the evil of exploitation engendered by individuals through their longing for security, self-preservation at all costs, irrespective of the whole of human beings;
    存在着邪恶的剥削，来源于每个人对安全的渴求，不惜一切地自我保护，对整个人类不管不顾；
14. And that, in the end, overrode my instinct towards self-preservation.
    而这个想法最终超越了我的自我保护本能。
15. Anyone with pure motives would avoid you out of a sense of self-preservation, if nothing else.
    如果没有其它原因的话，任何动机单纯的人都会由于自我保护而避免与你接触。
16. "I have a very strong sense of self-preservation," he said.
    “因为我有非常强的自我保护意识，”他说。
17. Both superpowers shared the same instinct for self-preservation.
    两个超级大国都有自我保护的本能。
18. He was carried away, at first, by the instinct of self-preservation;
    最初支配他的是自卫的本能；
19. All the rules of self-preservation were broken when we saw that little face.
    一看见那张小脸，我们就把明哲保身的金科玉律统统打破了。
20. Chakra One: Earth, Physical identity, oriented to self-preservation.
    脉轮：地球、物理的身份，面向自保。
21. Aggression is a kind of innate survival mechanism an instinct for self-preservation that allows animals to defend themselves from threats to their existence.
    攻击性是一种天生的生存机制，也一种自我保护的本能，它让动物自我保护免受生存的威胁。
22. Here is nature once more at her old game of self-preservation.
    大自然又在这里玩弄她保存自己的老把戏了。
23. Officials don't plan to release it, because the first few months of a dolphin's development are a critical time for it to learn self-preservation.
    官员们没有打算要把它放走，因为对它来说，海豚发育的头几个月是学习自我保护的关键时期。
24. Instead of worrying about his own self-preservation, he worries about hers. That's being in love.
    不担心自己的自我保护，他担心她的，这就是恋爱。
25. Based on the self-preservation instinct an orientation-searching reflex is established.
    因为有自卫的本能，方向定位的条件反射就会形成。
26. Global tie-ups are the future, but should not distract from self-preservation.
    全球化联盟是未来形势所趋，但不应该分散对自我防卫的关注。
27. Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
    保护自己，是自然界最原始的法则；人不为己，天诛地灭。
28. This is precisely why we say that attack, which is basically a means of destroying the enemy, also has the function of self-preservation.
    我们说，基本上为着消灭敌人的进攻手段中，同时也含了保存自己的作用，理由就在这里。
29. But my instinct of self-preservation was strong enough not to function this way.
    但我的自我保全的本能太强，不按照这条路走。
30. The primary requirement of war is to destroy the enemy, and the other requirement is self-preservation.
    战争的基本要求是：消灭敌人；其另一要求是：保存自己。

noun

1. preservation of yourself from harm