【survive音标】 英[səˈvaɪv] 美[sərˈvaɪv]
【单词释义】 survive是什么意思:
vi.幸存,活下来
vt.比…活得长,经历…之后还存在;幸存
vt.&vi.幸免于难;挺过;艰难度过
[单词分级] 高考英语词汇
[第三人称单数] survives
[单词现在分词] surviving
[单词过去式] survived
[单词过去分词] survived
【关联词/派生词】
survival n.生存;幸存;残存物
survivor n.幸存者;残存者;生还者;遗物,残存物
【单词例句】
◇ The vase used to belong to a former castle. But when the country was at war, the enemy troops exploded the castle. Debates on how the vase survived went on and on.
这个花瓶曾经属于一座从前的城堡,但在战争期间,敌人的军队炸毁了城堡,于是关于这个花瓶是如何幸存下来的争论就一直在持续着。
---- A Brave Maid
◇ People were moved when they read that the survivors comforted each other by saying “Congratulations! You survived!”.
当人们读到幸存者以“恭喜啊,你还活着。”来互相安慰时,都被感动了。
◇ The findings, published on the American College of Cardiology, come days after a similar study showed people who skip breakfast and eat a late dinner are less likely to survive a heart attack.
该研究结果刊登在《美国心脏病学会》期刊上,而在几天前,一项类似的研究显示,不吃早餐且吃晚饭较晚的人在心脏病发作时幸存下来的可能性要小一些。
---- Skipping breakfast could raise risk of heart disease by 87%
◇ Having survived her day of housework, Kirsten Taylor has now settled into the new routine. She loves spending more time with her son, saving money on childcare and getting through her to-do list. Her personality and "head down, bum up" work style suit the arrangement perfectly, she says.
好不容易结束了干家务的一天,柯尔斯顿·泰勒现在适应了新常规。她喜欢和儿子共度更多时光,省下了一些托管费,也做了更多想做的事。她说,她的性格和“埋头苦干”的工作风格与新的工作制非常合拍。
---- New Zealand employees try four-day week
◇ We have in our hands the technology to construct the most sophisticated machines ever built,but if they are unusable,simply because of their operating instructions,then recent lessons have taught us they will not survive.Whatever we design must be simple,reliable and useful.Perhaps this is where artificial intelligence will come in.
我们要用手中的技术建造最精密的机器。最近的事实告诉我们,如果仅仅因为操作指令而不能使用,那么它们将不能存在。无论如何,我们的设计必须简单、可靠且实用。这也许就是人工智能的来源。