| 释义 |
surviving, ppl. a.|səˈvaɪvɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That survives. a. Still living after another's death.
1593Shakes. Lucr. 519 Thy suruiuing husband. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 144 We find the sentence of the Pope and Wilfrids restitution still opposed by the surviving Bishops in Alfreds sons reign. 1780Mirror No. 81 ⁋5 After the first transports of my mother's grief were subsided, she began to apply herself to the care of her surviving child. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xv. III. 576 The surviving members of the High Court of Justice which had sate on Charles the First. 1861Paley æschylus (ed. 2) Choeph. 817 note, The dead Agamemnon and the surviving Electra.
b. Still remaining after the cessation of something else.
1593Shakes. Lucr. 223 This dying virtue, this suruiuing shame. 1820Shelley Witch Atl. xxiv, If I must weep when the surviving Sun Shall smile on your decay. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. ii. viii, The surviving Literature of the Period. |