outlive
outlive — 動詞
- outlivepresent simple I / you / we / they
- outliveshe / she / it
- outlivedpast simple
- outliving-ing form
1. If a person outlives someone, the person stays alive after that other person has
活得更久
比某人或某事存在得更久
If a person outlives someone, the person stays alive after that other person has died; if something outlives an event, idea, or period, it keeps existing after that thing has ended.
Grandma Ada outlived her husband by nearly twenty years.
Ada 奶奶比她的丈夫多活了將近二十年。
outlive + person (literal: live longer than someone who died)
Few wooden churches in the village outlived the great fire of 1923.
村子裡很少有木造教堂能在 1923 年那場大火後留存下來。
outlive + event (something keeps existing after an event ends)
Daichi hoped his small bakery would outlive the recession and stay open another decade.
Daichi 希望他的小麵包店能撐過這次經濟衰退，再開十年。
outlive + period (a business surviving a difficult time)
The old folk song has outlived the country that first sang it.
這首古老的民謠比最初傳唱它的那個國家還要久遠。
passive-like with abstract subject: a cultural item outlasting its origin
Doctors did not expect Camille to outlive her younger sister, but she did.
醫師原本不認為 Camille 會比她的妹妹活得更久，但她做到了。
outlive + family member (against-expectations framing)
- outlive one's usefulness
- outlive a spouse
- outlive expectations
- outlive a generation
- survive
more general — can mean live through a danger; outlive specifically means live longer than a named other
- outlast
interchangeable when the object is a thing or period; outlive is preferred when the object is a person
- endure
stresses lasting through hardship; less about being alive after someone else
- predecease
formal — to die before someone else; the exact opposite when subjects are people
文法句型
outlive + someone
outlive + something
用法筆記
Subject is usually a person, family member, institution, or cultural object; object is usually another person, an event, an era, or an organisation. Often carries an against-expectations flavour (the subject was not expected to last longer).
常見錯誤
同根字
常見搭配
副詞搭配
- just barely
- by many years
- long enough to
常用片語
- outlive one's usefulness
- outlive a generation