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

• The slavery of classical times had outlived itself.
  古代的奴隶制，已经过时了。
• She outlived her husband by many years.
  她比她丈夫长命几年。
• I think they've outlived their usefulness.
  我觉得他们寿命比有效期要长。
• The dual mandate has outlived its usefulness.
  双重使命已经失去了效用。
• He has outlived his usefulness.
  他已老而无用了。
• 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”。
• 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 two dependency-handling solutions that PHP developers commonly used in the past have outlived their effectiveness.
  PHP开发人员在过去常用的两种依赖关系处理解决方案已失去其效率。
• His reputation and achievements outlived him.
  他虽已去世，但他的名望和成就依然存在。
• Some people think this system of education has outlived its usefulness.
  一些人认为这一教育制度已经不再有效用了。