中文词源
survive 生存，存活
sur-,在上，超过，-viv,生命，词源同 vivid,vivacity.引申词义生存，存活。
英语词源
- survive
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survive: see vivid
- survive (v.)
- mid-15c. (implied in surviving), "to outlive, continue in existence after the death of another," originally in the legal (inheritance) sense, from Anglo-French survivre, Old French souvivre (12c., Modern French survivre), from Latin supervivere "live beyond, live longer than," from super "over, beyond" (see super-) + vivere "to live" (see vivid). Intransitive sense "to live on" is from late 15c. Related: Survived; surviving.
权威例句
- 1. Curiously, the struggle to survive has greatly improved her health.
- 奇怪的是，她拼命求生的抗争使得她的健康状况大有好转。
- 2. Outside the protected environment of institutional care he could not survive.
- 离开福利机构的照顾，离开这种受保护的环境，他将难以生存下去。
- 3. The corporation is fighting to survive its second brush with bankruptcy.
- 公司正在努力摆脱自身遭遇的第二次破产危机。
- 4. The first thing parents want to know is: will the baby survive?
- 父母亲最想知道的是：孩子能活下来吗？
- 5. It's important that these upland farms continue to survive.
- 这些高原农场能继续存在下去非常重要。