survive

vt. 幸存；生还；幸免于；比...活得长

vi. 幸存；活下来

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。

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。