動(dòng)詞 outlive:

1. live longer than
   同義詞：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.
   他退休后覺(jué)得自己年老無(wú)用了。

out.live

v.tr.（及物動(dòng)詞）
out.lived,out.liv.ing,out.lives
To live longer than:
比…活得長(zhǎng)：
例句：
She outlived her son.
她比自己的兒子活得還長(zhǎng)

To continue in use or existence long enough to survive (something else):
度過(guò)…而存在：繼續(xù)使用或存在到足以比（別的事物）長(zhǎng)：
例句：
a regulation that has outlived its usefulness.
已經(jīng)沒(méi)用卻仍然存在的規(guī)則

<參考詞匯><同義詞>outlive,outlast,surviveThese verbs all mean to live or exist longer than another person or thing.
這些動(dòng)詞都指比別的人或事物活得時(shí)間長(zhǎng)。
Outlive frequently implies the capacity for enduring after the death of another or after a particular time:
Outlive 常隱約意味著在別人死后或一段特殊時(shí)期之后持久存在的能力：
例句：
outlived her friends.
比她的朋友們都長(zhǎng)命。

Outlast, often interchangeable withoutlive, more commonly stresses longer duration in time:
Outlast 經(jīng)?？膳coutlive 互換使用， 更加強(qiáng)調(diào)更長(zhǎng)時(shí)間的延續(xù)：
例句：
anxiety that outlasted its cause.
沒(méi)有理由卻繼續(xù)存有的焦慮。

Survive may also be used with reference merely to living longer than another:
Survive 也可以僅用于指比另一物活得長(zhǎng)：
例句：
He is survived by his wife and children. Frequently, however, tosurvive is to remain alive following something potentially destructive to life:
他妻子和孩子們活得都比他長(zhǎng)。 但是通常survive 指在經(jīng)受破壞性的生命危險(xiǎn)之后仍存活了下來(lái)：

例句：
She survived the plane crash.
她在飛機(jī)墜毀后幸免于難