| 单词 | self-preservingly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasself-preˈservingly self-preˈservingly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > preservation from injury or destruction > [adverb] > so as to preserve oneself from trouble self-preservingly1654 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. viii. 123 It was..more selfe-preservingly done to leave him to the Sarcasmes of his Book, then by a shoulder-experience to have learn'd how to write a literall invective against him. 1877 Survival 424 Society..lacks the sensitive unity that self-preservingly interests the whole in the part. 2006 E. Gilbert Eat, Pray, Love xvii. 52 Whether this makes me self-defeatingly stubborn, or self-preservingly stubborn, I cannot say. < as lemmas |
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