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单词 survive
释义
survive
(səʳvv )
Word forms: survives , surviving , survived
1. verb B2
If a person or living thing survives in a dangerous situation such as an accident or an illness, they do not die.
They battled to survive in icy seas for over four hours. [VERB]
Those organisms that are most suited to the environment will survive. [VERB]
Drugs that dissolve blood clots can help people survive heart attacks. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: remain alive, live, pull through, last  
2. verb B2
If you survive in difficult circumstances, you manage to live or continue in spite of them and do not let them affect you very much.
On my first day here I thought, 'Ooh, how will I survive?' [VERB]
...people who are struggling to survive without jobs. [VERB]
Where once she had been totally self-sufficient, she now had to survive on income support. [VERB on noun]
...a man who had survived his share of boardroom coups. [VERB noun]
3. verb B2
If something survives, it continues to exist even after being in a dangerous situation or existing for a long time.
When the market economy is introduced, many factories will not survive. [VERB]
The chances of a planet surviving a supernova always looked terribly slim. [VERB noun]
...surviving examples of 19th-century architecture in the Mid-West. [VERB-ing]
4. verb
If you survive someone, you continue to live after they have died.
Most women will survive their spouses. [VERB noun]
She is survived by two daughters from her first marriage. [VERB noun]
...William Shakespeare's last surviving descendant. [VERB-ing]
Synonyms: live longer than, outlive, outlast, live on after  
Collocations:
barely surviving
I went from disappointed to barely surviving to bitter and defeated.
Christianity Today
After barely surviving the white-knuckle trip, the men swore to never return.
Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0
Barely surviving a dramatic crash-landing on the ice, and returning weeks later against all expectations, he turned to airships.
Times, Sunday Times
Barely surviving, he falls off the roof of the skyscraper and into a river.
Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0
Beak leaped out, tried to fly and plunged into the street below, barely surviving.
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survive a recession
Experts blame the toll on a drastic collapse in job vacancies as firms cut back on staff to survive the recession.
The Sun
We still need bank lending, however, and smaller firms in particular need it to survive the recession and expand into the recovery.
Times, Sunday Times
To survive the recession, companies need to innovate to tap new markets or find ways of serving existing markets better.
Times, Sunday Times
The majority, 82 per cent, believed that focusing on their management and leadership skills would help them to survive the recession.
Times, Sunday Times
So how can business travellers survive the recession?
Times, Sunday Times
survive a trauma
In his view the euro will survive the trauma.
Times, Sunday Times
How do you survive the trauma and the pain?
Times, Sunday Times
Asked if his marriage could survive the trauma, he insisted that the couple were 'good'.
The Sun
If it survives the trauma of birth, it will emerge screaming into a world unrecognisable to its ancestors.
Times, Sunday Times
She reckons that after surviving a trauma like that intact, they're obviously meant to be together forever.
The Sun
survive the cold
To survive the cold waters in which they mostly live they must eat as much as 30 per cent of their bodyweight a day.
Times, Sunday Times
I learned how to start fires using the elements, how to eat, or how to survive the cold.
The Sun
Will it survive the cold winter weather?
The Sun
Giving your greenhouse an autumn clean will help the plants survive the cold months, and cleaning the surface also makes it more difficult for snow to accumulate on the roof.
The Sun
As winter approaches, plants need help to survive the cold.
The Sun
survive the winter
Lamb's lettuce is a small-leaved winter alternative to lettuce, which will survive winter best under glass.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The good news for wildlife is that it should be much better placed to survive the winter this year thanks to the bountiful crop of fruit.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It is not quite so hardy either and may not survive the winter.
Kitto, Dick Planning the Organic Vegetable Garden (1986)
Spores of late blight do not survive the winter on rotting plant material, so you can compost everything.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Translations:
Chinese: 存活
Japanese: 生き残る
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