survive可用作及物动词和不及物动词，作及物动词时，有从...中逃生，比...活得长等含义，作不及物动词时，有活下来，幸存等含义。

一.作及物动词

1. 在...之后仍然生存,从...中逃生

Only two passengers survived the air-crash.

这次飞机失事只有两名乘客幸免于死。

She was the only girl to survive the accident.

她是这次事故的惟一幸存者.

Few of the houses survived the war

没有一所房子经受住了战争的洗礼.

2. 比...活得长;丧失(配偶,亲人等)

She survived her husband by twenty years.

她丈夫去世后她又活了二十年。

Surprisingly,John survived his younger brother.

出乎意料的是约翰竟然活得比他弟弟还长.

注：survive 本身已表示“幸存，幸免于”，因而其后不能再加多余的in或from（正如enter the

building不加into)

二.作不及物动词，表示活下来,幸存;残留

Few survived after the flood.

洪水后极少有人生还。

Of the six people injured in the crash, only two survived.

因这次撞车事故受伤的六人中,只有两个人活下来了.

Of the wounded,only three survived.

伤员中只有三个活了下来.