survivor

Word family  noun survival survivor adjective surviving verb survive

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++sur·vi·vor /səˈvaɪvə $ sərˈvaɪvər/ ●●○ AWL noun [countable]  1  SURVIVEsomeone who continues to live after an accident, war, or illness 〔事故、战争或疾病的〕生还者，幸存者survivor of Emergency help is needed for survivors of the earthquake. 地震的幸存者需要紧急援助。 She was the sole survivor (=only survivor) of the massacre. 她是大屠杀唯一的幸存者。2  SURVIVEsomeone who manages to live normally in spite of many problems 〔困境中的〕生存者 Don’t worry about Kurt; he’s a survivor. 不用担心库尔特，他是个坚强的人。3  someone who continues to live after other members of their family have died 〔家庭其他成员死后〕还活着的人 She was the last survivor of the family. 家里只剩她一个人还活着。4  a company that continues to be successful in spite of many problems 幸存者〔指虽然有很多困难但仍存活的公司〕 The company hopes to be one of the survivors of this recession. 公司希望成为这次经济衰退的幸存者之一。

Examples from the Corpus

survivor• She had saved 146 survivors in all, from Southern Princess and from another ship as well.• Survivors of the accident were rushed to the nearest hospital.• As more is revealed, the audience begins to see Wendy as a survivor rather than a victim.• So far rescue workers have found no sign of any survivors.• Although she's had an extremely hard life, Tina Turner is a born survivor.• The Nguyen survivor, Nguyen Anh, had fled to the island with his Tayson foes behind him.• There were no survivors among at least 261 people on board.• The next few days were filled with wire stories detailing the search for possible survivors.• Shaken survivors milled about the lobby awaiting word on when they could leave Cairo.• An eight-month-old baby girl was the sole survivor of a car crash that killed both her parents.• Such survivors, after all, form by far the greatest proportion of patients with coronary disease.• In 1984, the survivors were all females and although they laid capsules, no embryos hatched.• Down below, the survivors emerge from their cars, cough once or twice, then forget all about it.• Mention his name to these pre-war survivors and you hear a sound like soup sucked through clenched teeth.sole survivor• The cast's sole survivor from the great Minstrel days says that's a shame.• I am the sole survivor of my family.• General Electric is the sole survivor from the original index.• Bumboy not only won: it was more or less the sole survivor.• It is in this latter style that the sole survivor, 167 - has been restored for the Centenary celebrations.• Stewart walked off with the look of one who was the sole survivor of a particularly nasty plane crash.• The sole survivor, Barry O'Shaughnessy, 19, was seriously ill in hospital last night.nSurvivor  na television programme in which people compete with each other to try to win a very large prize of money. They are sent to a place where there are no other people, and where they are given special jobs to do. Each week the people there vote on who will leave the competition. This programme has been very popular in the US since 2000, and it has been done again several times in several countries. Britain and Australia tried doing similar programmes, but they were not successful and the programme is no longer broadcast in those two countries.From Longman Business Dictionarysurvivorsur‧vi‧vor /səˈvaɪvəsərˈvaɪvər/ noun [countable]1someone or something that continues to exist through a difficult or dangerous period of timesurvivor ofInvestors think they are the likely survivors of this economic downturn.2formal people in your family who continue to live after you have diedGive burial instructions; this can save your survivors thousands of dollars.

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Survivor
Survivor
a television programme in which people compete with each other to try to win a very large prize of money. They are sent to a place where there are no other people, and where they are given special jobs to do. Each week the people there vote on who will leave the competition. This programme has been very popular in the US since 2000, and it has been done again several times in several countries. Britain and Australia tried doing similar programmes, but they were not successful and the programme is no longer broadcast in those two countries.

survivor
sur‧vi‧vor AC /səˈvaɪvə $ sərˈvaɪvər/ noun [countable]1. someone who continues to live after an accident, war, or illness
    survivor of
    Emergency help is needed for survivors of the earthquake.
    She was the sole survivor (=only survivor) of the massacre.
2. someone who manages to live normally in spite of many problems:
    Don’t worry about Kurt; he’s a survivor.
3. someone who continues to live after other members of their family have died:
    She was the last survivor of the family.
4. a company that continues to be successful in spite of many problems:
    The company hopes to be one of the survivors of this recession.

sur·vivor AW BrE /səˈvaɪvə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /sərˈvaɪvər/ 🔊 nouna person who continues to live, especially despite being nearly killed or experiencing great danger or difficulty 幸存者；生还者；挺过困难者◆the sole/only survivor of the massacre那场大屠杀的唯一幸存者◆The plane crashed in an area of dense jungle. There were no survivors. 飞机坠落在一个丛林茂密的地区，无人生还。🔊🔊◆There are only a few survivors from the original team (= members who remain in it while others have been replaced). 最初的队员只剩下几名了。🔊🔊◆She'll cope. She's one of life's great survivors (= sb who deals very well with difficult situations). 她能挺过去。生活中什么样的困难她都能对付。🔊🔊