survive可用作及物動詞和不及物動詞，作及物動詞時，有從...中逃生，比...活得長等含義，作不及物動詞時，有活下來，幸存等含義。
壹.作及物動詞
1. 在...之後仍然生存,從...中逃生
Only two passengers survived the air-crash.
這次飛機失事只有兩名乘客幸免於死。
She was the only girl to survive the accident.
她是這次事故的惟壹幸存者.
Few of the houses survived the war
沒有壹所房子經受住了戰爭的洗禮.
2. 比...活得長;喪失(配偶,親人等)
She survived her husband by twenty years.
她丈夫去世後她又活了二十年。
Surprisingly,John survived his younger brother.
出乎意料的是約翰竟然活得比他弟弟還長.
註：survive 本身已表示“幸存，幸免於”，因而其後不能再加多余的in或from（正如enter the
building不加into)
二.作不及物動詞，表示活下來,幸存;殘留
Few survived after the flood.
洪水後極少有人生還。
Of the six people injured in the crash, only two survived.
因這次撞車事故受傷的六人中,只有兩個人活下來了.
Of the wounded,only three survived.
傷員中只有三個活了下來.