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- （一般作resources）a stock or supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively资源（指钱、物、人等）：
local authorities complained that they lacked resources.
地方当局抱怨资源不足。
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resources
a country's collective means of supporting itself or becoming wealthier, as represented by its reserves of minerals, land, and other assets（国家的）自然资源。
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resources
N. Amer. available assets〈北美〉现有资产, 可用资源。
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- an action or strategy which may be adopted in adverse circumstances（逆境中的）出路; 应付办法, 对策：
sometimes anger is the only resource left in a situation like this.
在那样的情形下有时除了发怒之外别无他法。
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resources
one's personal attributes and capabilities regarded as able to help or sustain one in adverse circumstances（应付逆境的）品质和能力：we had been left very much to our own resources.
当时我们只好主要靠自己想办法去应付。
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- mass noun the ability to find quick and clever ways to overcome difficulties（对付困难的）急智, 谋略：
a man of resource.
足智多谋的人。
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- a teaching aid教具。
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- mass noun archaic the possibility of aid or assistance〈古〉受援的可能; 得救的希望：
the flower of the French army was lost without resource.
法军的精华无可挽回地损失了。
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- archaic a leisure occupation〈古〉消遣, 娱乐。
with obj.
- provide (a person or organization) with materials, money, staff, and other assets necessary for effective operation为（人或机构）提供资源（钱、物、人等）：
a strategy which ensures that primary health care workers are adequately resourced.
确保提供足够数量初级保健护理人员的策略。
派生词
resourceless
adjectiveresourcelessness
noun词源
early 17th cent.: from obsolete French ressourse, feminine past participle (used as a noun) of Old French dialect resourdre 'rise again, recover' （based on Latin surgere 'to rise'）.