survive

Compared meaning: to continue to exist (verb).

比较义项：继续存在、留存下去（动词）。

• endure

  Highlights something lasting or continuing to exist for a long time, often abstract things like traditions, memories, or institutions; does not require any danger or crisis.

  强调某事物长久持续存在，常用于传统、记忆、机构等抽象事物；不要求存在任何危险或危机。

  This ancient tradition has endured for over a thousand years.

  这项古老的传统已经延续了一千多年。

• survive 本词

  Highlights staying alive or continuing to exist despite a dangerous, harmful, or destructive event; typically used for living things or things threatened with destruction.

  强调在经历危险、有害或毁灭性事件之后仍然存活或继续存在；通常用于生物或面临毁灭威胁的事物。

  This species survived the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.

  这个物种在造成恐龙灭绝的大灭绝事件中幸存了下来。

Endure and survive both mean to continue existing. Endure stresses something lasting a long time, like traditions or memories, without any danger. Survive stresses staying alive despite a dangerous or destructive event, usually for living things. Endure's sense 'to bear pain' is not compared.

这两个词都表示某事物在某种情况下继续存在，但 endure 强调事物经过长时间而持续留存，不一定涉及危险或威胁；survive 强调在经历具体的危险或毁灭性事件之后仍然存活或留存下来。这里不比较 endure 的“忍受，容忍”义项（如忍受寒冷、忍受痛苦）。

Compared meaning: to live longer than someone (verb).

比较义项：比...活得长、比...存在得久（动词）。

• survive 本词

  Often appears in the passive formula 'is survived by', naming relatives still living after someone's death, as in obituaries; this specific passive pattern does not work naturally with outlive.

  常出现在被动结构“is survived by”中，用来说明某人去世后仍然健在的亲属，多见于讣告；这种被动用法不适合套用在 outlive 上。

  He is survived by his wife and two children.

  他身后留下了妻子和两个孩子。

• outlive

  The everyday active verb for this meaning: the subject directly outlives someone or something, often followed by 'by' plus a time span; more common and less formal than survive's passive pattern.

  这是该意义上更日常使用的主动动词：主语直接“outlive”某人或某物，后面常接“by + 一段时间”；比 survive 的被动用法更常见、更口语化。

  Tortoises can outlive most other animals by many decades.

  乌龟能比大多数其他动物多活好几十年。

Survive and outlive both mean to live longer than someone. Survive often appears in the phrase 'is survived by,' naming relatives after a death; its sense 'to get through hardship' is not compared. Outlive is an active verb, followed by 'by' and a time span.

这两个词在“比...活得长”这个意义上很接近，但 survive 常出现在被动结构 be survived by（讣告用语，指某人去世后仍然健在的亲属）中，而 outlive 是主动及物动词，日常表达中更常见，常与“by + 时间段”搭配使用。这里不比较 survive 表示“在困境中幸存、经受住”的常见用法。