outlive

动词 outlive:

1. live longer than
   同义词：outlast, survive

1. He outlived his wife by three years.
   他比妻子多活了三年。
2. When he retired he felt that he had outlived his usefulness.
   他退休后觉得自己年老无用了。

out.live

v.tr.（及物动词）
out.lived,out.liv.ing,out.lives
To live longer than:
比…活得长：
例句：
She outlived her son.
她比自己的儿子活得还长

To continue in use or existence long enough to survive (something else):
度过…而存在：继续使用或存在到足以比（别的事物）长：
例句：
a regulation that has outlived its usefulness.
已经没用却仍然存在的规则

<参考词汇><同义词>outlive,outlast,surviveThese verbs all mean to live or exist longer than another person or thing.
这些动词都指比别的人或事物活得时间长。
Outlive frequently implies the capacity for enduring after the death of another or after a particular time:
Outlive 常隐约意味着在别人死后或一段特殊时期之后持久存在的能力：
例句：
outlived her friends.
比她的朋友们都长命。

Outlast, often interchangeable withoutlive, more commonly stresses longer duration in time:
Outlast 经常可与outlive 互换使用， 更加强调更长时间的延续：
例句：
anxiety that outlasted its cause.
没有理由却继续存有的焦虑。

Survive may also be used with reference merely to living longer than another:
Survive 也可以仅用于指比另一物活得长：
例句：
He is survived by his wife and children. Frequently, however, tosurvive is to remain alive following something potentially destructive to life:
他妻子和孩子们活得都比他长。 但是通常survive 指在经受破坏性的生命危险之后仍存活了下来：

例句：
She survived the plane crash.
她在飞机坠毁后幸免于难