outlives

英 [ˌaʊtˈlɪvz]

美 [ˌaʊtˈlɪvz]

v.  比…活得长; (在…结束或消失后)继续存在
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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

• An heir whose right to an inheritance cannot be defeated if that person outlives the ancestor.
  如果那个人比他的先人长命，他的继承权就不能被剥夺的人。
• Sometimes the yeast within a writer outlives a book he has written. i.
  有时书成之后，作家的兴奋仍不消散。
• Sometimes the yeast within a writer outlives a book he has written.
  有时，一个作家一本书写完了，但兴奋仍不消散。
• The character of a nation even outlives its language.
  个民族的特性延续的时间甚至会超过其语言。
• Yet the actual experience of patients frequently belied this assumption, for chronic pain often outlives its original causes, worsens over time and appears to take on a puzzling life of its own.
  然而，患者的实际经历往往与这种假设不符，因为慢性疼痛往往比它的起因持续的时间长，并随时间加重，其本身似乎呈现出令人费解的过程。
• Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
  虚荣是个老不死，有些顽梗难治者，人死犹存。
• Build and support a community of users and contributors such that the code outlives any particular contributor's involvement or any particular company or university's funding.
  建立一个用户和贡献者社区，使代码不必依赖于特定贡献者的参与或任何特定公司和大学的资金。
• The popularity of her image outlives the lifespan of the artworks in which she is depicted, as they are often destroyed during renovations or painted over.
  由于新作经常在革新或涂抹覆盖中损毁，她在原作中的形象的寿命远比那些改编作品更长更悠远。