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

• Many people think the system has outlived its usefulness.
  许多人认为该系统已经不再有用了。
• 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。
• None of which is to say that Britannica has outlived its usefulness.
  这并不是说《大英百科全书》的实用性已经不复存在了。
• Eventually we decided that the system had outlived its usefulness.
  最后我们决定这个系统已不再有使用价值了。
• 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。
• 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。
• Some have always lived alone while others have outlived their partner or other relatives.
  一些人一直都是一个人住，另一些人却是因为他们比他们的伙伴或者亲戚长寿。
• People even wondered whether the organization had outlived its usefulness.
  人们甚至怀疑这个组织是否还有其存在的必要。
• Then it seems you've outlived your contract.
  那看来你已经活得比你的合约长久了。
• When he retired he felt that he had outlived his usefulness.
  他退休后觉得自己年老无用了。