1. 訴諸;采取
    If you resort to a course of action that you do not really approve of, you adopt it because you cannot see any other way of achieving what you want.

    e.g. His punishing work schedule had made him resort to drugs...
           異常緊張的工作安排使他開(kāi)始吸毒。
    e.g. Some schools have resorted to recruiting teachers from overseas.
           有些學(xué)校不得不開(kāi)始從海外招收老師。

2. 采取;憑借;訴諸;求助
    If you achieve something without resort to a particular course of action, you succeed without carrying out that action. To have resort to a particular course of action means to have to do that action in order to achieve something.

    e.g. Congress has a responsibility to ensure that all peaceful options are exhausted before resort to war.
           國(guó)會(huì)有責(zé)任確保只有在所有和平手段都不奏效的情況下才會(huì)訴諸戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)。

3. (度假)勝地
    A resort is a place where a lot of people spend their holidays.

    e.g. ...the ski resorts.
           滑雪勝地

4. 最后的辦法;最終手段
    If you do something as a last resort, you do it because you can find no other way of getting out of a difficult situation or of solving a problem.

    e.g. Nuclear weapons should be used only as a last resort...
           不到萬(wàn)不得已時(shí)不能選擇使用核武器。
    e.g. As a last resort you may have to accept their point of view.
           最終，你可能不得不接受他們的觀(guān)點(diǎn)。

5. 最終
    You use in the last resort when stating the most basic or important fact that will still be true in a situation whatever else happens.

    e.g. They would in the last resort support their friends whatever they did.
           無(wú)論他們的朋友做了什么，他們最終都會(huì)支持他們的朋友。