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

• She outlived her husband by many years.
  她比她丈夫长命几年。
• The dual mandate has outlived its usefulness.
  双重使命已经失去了效用。
• 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。
• In both relationships, Yahoo has outlived its usefulness.
  在这两个关系中，雅虎都早已毫无用处。
• The machine had outlived its usefulness.
  这机器已无用了。
• However, he remained master of Mongolia and Turkestan, and outlived Kublai.
  不过他仍然是蒙古和突厥斯坦的首领，死于忽必烈之后。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。