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

• Even critics admit that the policy has reduced poverty and reduced the income gap among the races, but question whether it has outlived its usefulness.
  甚至连一些批评人士也承认，这项政策减少了贫困，降低了种族之间的收入差距。但他们质疑，这项政策是否已经过时。
• When he retired he felt that he had outlived his usefulness.
  他退休后觉得自己年老无用了。
• None of which is to say that Britannica has outlived its usefulness.
  这并不是说《大英百科全书》的实用性已经不复存在了。
• Some have always lived alone while others have outlived their partner or other relatives.
  一些人一直都是一个人住，另一些人却是因为他们比他们的伙伴或者亲戚长寿。
• I think they've outlived their usefulness.
  我觉得他们寿命比有效期要长。
• But it may have a number of tests that have outlived their usefulness.
  但是可能有许多测试的生命长过其有效时期。
• 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”。
• He outlived his son by four years.
  他比儿子多活了4年。
• His reputation and achievements outlived him.
  他虽已去世，但他的名望和成就依然存在。
• 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。