survive

英 [s?'va?v] 美[s?'va?v]

CET4TEM4GRE考研TOEFLCET6中高頻詞核心詞匯

第三人稱單數:?survives;過去式:?survived;過去分詞:?survived;現在分詞:?surviving;

survive 生存，存活

sur-,在上，超過，-viv,生命，詞源同 vivid,vivacity.引申詞義生存，存活。

survive: 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.

1. Curiously, the struggle to survive has greatly improved her health.: 奇怪的是，她拼命求生的抗爭使得她的健康狀況大有好轉。

2. Outside the protected environment of institutional care he could not survive.: 離開福利機構的照顧，離開這種受保護的環境，他將難以生存下去。

3. The corporation is fighting to survive its second brush with bankruptcy.: 公司正在努力擺脫自身遭遇的第二次破產危機。

4. The first thing parents want to know is: will the baby survive?: 父母親最想知道的是：孩子能活下來嗎？

5. It's important that these upland farms continue to survive.: 這些高原農場能繼續存在下去非常重要。