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

• 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 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。
• The machine had outlived its usefulness.
  这机器已无用了。
• 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。
• Then it seems you've outlived your contract.
  那看来你已经活得比你的合约长久了。
• Many people think the system has outlived its usefulness.
  许多人认为该系统已经不再有用了。
• The U.S.dollar-Hong Kong dollar currency board, successful at the beginning, may have outlived its usefulness.
  港元与美元间的联系汇率制在建立之初很是成功，但现在或许已失去了其存在的意义。
• 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。
• 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。