survive
英 [s?'va?v]
美[s?'va?v]
- vt. 幸存；生还；幸免于；比...活得长
- vi. 幸存；活下来
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词态变化
第三人称单数:?survives;过去式:?survived;过去分词:?survived;现在分词:?surviving;
中文词源
survive 生存，存活
sur-,在上，超过，-viv,生命，词源同 vivid,vivacity.引申词义生存，存活。
英文词源
- survive
- survive: see vivid
- survive (v.)
- mid-15c. (implied in surviving), "to outlive, continue in existence after the death of another," originally in the legal (inheritance) sense, from Anglo-French survivre, Old French souvivre (12c., Modern French survivre), from Latin supervivere "live beyond, live longer than," from super "over, beyond" (see super-) + vivere "to live" (see vivid). Intransitive sense "to live on" is from late 15c. Related: Survived; surviving.
双语例句
- 1. Curiously, the struggle to survive has greatly improved her health.
- 奇怪的是，她拼命求生的抗争使得她的健康状况大有好转。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Outside the protected environment of institutional care he could not survive.
- 离开福利机构的照顾，离开这种受保护的环境，他将难以生存下去。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. The corporation is fighting to survive its second brush with bankruptcy.
- 公司正在努力摆脱自身遭遇的第二次破产危机。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. The first thing parents want to know is: will the baby survive?
- 父母亲最想知道的是：孩子能活下来吗？
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. It's important that these upland farms continue to survive.
- 这些高原农场能继续存在下去非常重要。
来自柯林斯例句