outlived

英 [ˌaʊtˈlɪvd]

美 [ˌaʊtˈlɪvd]

v.  比…活得长; (在…结束或消失后)继续存在
outlive的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 比…活得长;比…持久
  If one personoutlivesanother, they are still alive after the second person has died. If one thingoutlivesanother thing, the first thing continues to exist after the second has disappeared or been replaced.
  1. I'm sure Rose will outlive many of us...
     我肯定罗丝会比我们中的很多人长命。
  2. The UN is an organisation which has long since outlived its usefulness...
     联合国是一个早已形同虚设的机构。
  3. By the early 1980s, the power station had outlived its purpose.
     这座电站到20世纪80年代初就已经失去作用了。

双语例句

• By the early 1980s, the power station had outlived its purpose.
  这座电站到20世纪80年代初就已经失去作用了。
• People even wondered whether the organization had outlived its usefulness.
  人们甚至怀疑这个组织是否还有其存在的必要。
• He outlived his son by four years.
  他比儿子多活了4年。
• Then it seems you've outlived your contract.
  那看来你已经活得比你的合约长久了。
• Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.
  安妮希望自己已经跨过了羞怯的年龄，但她肯定没有跨过容易冲动的年龄。
• The machine had outlived its usefulness.
  这机器已无用了。
• Eventually we decided that the system had outlived its usefulness.
  最后我们决定这个系统已不再有使用价值了。
• I have outlived the average patient and I still don't need oxygen all the time.
  “我已经超过了患者的平均寿命，而且我并不需要在所有时候都吸氧”。
• The slavery of classical times had outlived itself.
  古代的奴隶制，已经过时了。
• He has outlived his usefulness.
  他已老而无用了。