survivesur•vive /sə'vaɪv/

vi 幸存；活下来

• Only six of the 2,000 passengers survived in the shipwreck. 沉船上的2,000名乘客中只有6人幸存。

• He can't survive on $30 a week. 他每周收入30美元难以活命。

vt

1. 从…中逃生；经历…幸存

• survive a shipwreck 经历沉船而死里逃生

• The crops survived the drought. 经过这次旱灾，庄稼还是活下来了。

2. 口 从…中挺过来

• He seems to have survived the retirement pretty well. 看他退休后的日子过得还不错。

3. 比…长命

• She survived her husband by 10 years. 丈夫死后她又活了10年。