survivable
survivable — 形容詞
- survivablepositive
- more survivablecomparative
- most survivablesuperlative
1. A survivable illness, injury, accident, or other dangerous situation is very ser
可存活的
嚴重但不會導致死亡的
A survivable illness, injury, accident, or other dangerous situation is very serious but does not kill the people who experience it.
The doctor told Mr. Chen that his injuries from the car crash were survivable.
醫生告訴陳先生，他車禍造成的傷勢不會致命。
survivable + that-clause in a medical prognosis
Most knife wounds to the arms or legs are survivable if treated quickly.
大多數手臂或腿部的刀傷若及時處理，都能存活。
passive construction: be survivable if [condition]
Baraka's doctors said the disease was survivable with early treatment.
Baraka 的醫生說，這種疾病若早期治療是可以存活的。
The hikers knew that falling into the cold river was survivable, so they stayed calm.
那些登山者知道掉進冰冷的河裡仍有存活機會，所以他們保持冷靜。
Daichi fell from a window, but doctors said his injuries were survivable.
Daichi 從窗戶摔下來，但醫生說他的傷勢不會致命。
- non-fatal
more formal, common in medical and statistical writing
- recoverable
focuses on the possibility of getting better, not just avoiding death
- treatable
narrower in scope — applies mainly to medical conditions that can be treated successfully
文法句型
survivable + noun (attributive)
noun + be + survivable (predicative)
用法筆記
Commonly used with nouns that describe medical conditions, injuries, accidents, or dangerous situations. The subject is always a situation or condition — never a person. For example, say 'the accident was survivable', not 'he was survivable.'