VERB 比…活得长;比…持久 If one person outlives another, they are still alive after the second person has died. If one thing outlives another thing, the first thing continues to exist after the second has disappeared or been replaced.
I'm sure Rose will outlive many of us... 我肯定罗丝会比我们中的很多人长命。
The UN is an organisation which has long since outlived its usefulness... 联合国是一个早已形同虚设的机构。
By the early 1980s, the power station had outlived its purpose. 这座电站到20世纪80年代初就已经失去作用了。