resilient

adjective
🔊/rɪˈzɪliənt/
🔊/rɪˈzɪliənt/
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  1. able to recover quickly after something unpleasant such as shock, injury, etc.可迅速恢复的;有适应力的
    • He'll get over it—young people are amazingly resilient.他会克服的,年轻人的适应力惊人。🔊🔊
    • These plants are very resilient to rough handling.这些工厂对粗暴处理非常有弹性。
    Extra Examples
    • a pretty resilient plant适应力相当强的植物
    • a remarkably resilient woman有非凡适应力的女子
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • prove
    • seem
    adverb
    • extremely
    • fairly
    • very
    preposition
    • to
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  2. (of a substance物质) returning to its original shape after being bent, stretched, or pressed有弹性(或弹力)的;能复原的Topics Physics and chemistryc2
  3. Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Latin resilient- ‘leaping back’, from the verb resilire ‘to recoil’, from re- ‘back’ + salire ‘to jump’.