名词

1. 幸存者;生还者;幸免于难者
A survivor of a disaster, accident, or illness is someone who continues to live afterwards in spite of coming close to death.

2. 遭遇过(不幸经历)的人;经受过(苦难)的人
A survivor of a very unpleasant experience is a person who has had such an experience, and who is still affected by it.

3. (死者的)尚在世的家人;遗属
A person's survivors are the members of their family who continue to live after they have died.

4. 能在艰苦环境中生存的人;挺过困难者
If you describe someone as a survivor, you approve of the fact that they are able to carry on with their life even though they experience many difficulties.

5. 活到现在的人;留存至今的事物
If you describe a person or thing as a survivor from an earlier period, you mean that they are still present or available, but other people or things from that period have died or disappeared.

1. an animal that survives in spite of adversity

e.g. only the fittest animals were survivors of the cold winters

2. one who outlives another

e.g. he left his farm to his survivors

3. one who lives through affliction

e.g. the survivors of the fire were taken to a hospital

Synonym: subsister