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

• 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。
• Many people think the system has outlived its usefulness.
  许多人认为该系统已经不再有用了。
• The two dependency-handling solutions that PHP developers commonly used in the past have outlived their effectiveness.
  PHP开发人员在过去常用的两种依赖关系处理解决方案已失去其效率。
• 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。
• The slavery of classical times had outlived itself.
  古代的奴隶制，已经过时了。
• Even critics admit that the policy has reduced poverty and reduced the income gap among the races, but question whether it has outlived its usefulness.
  甚至连一些批评人士也承认，这项政策减少了贫困，降低了种族之间的收入差距。但他们质疑，这项政策是否已经过时。
• The export-led model has outlived its usefulness.
  出口导向型经济模式已经不管用了。
• 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。
• He has outlived his usefulness.
  他已老而无用了。
• He outlived all of his brothers.
  他比他所有的兄弟都活得长。