核心畫面
Picture the moment after something has swept through — a crash, a fire, a war — and someone is still standing there when others are not. A survivor is the one who came out the other side of what could have ended them. The word always carries that background of loss: you only count as a survivor because there was something to be survived, and because not everyone made it.
可以想成一場風暴掃過之後的那一刻：船難、大火、戰爭過去了，別人倒下了，而有一個人還站在那裡。survivor 就是那…更多收起
可以想成一場風暴掃過之後的那一刻：船難、大火、戰爭過去了，別人倒下了，而有一個人還站在那裡。survivor 就是那個「從可能把他結束掉的事情裡走出來」的人。這個字背後永遠帶著一層失去——你會被叫做 survivor，正是因為有一件危險的事發生過，而且並不是每個人都撐過來了。這個畫面往後延伸，就從活下來的人，長到撐下來的人、剩下來的人，甚至撐下來的公司。原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
survivornoun/səˈvaɪvə/
- 1
One who survives, especially one who survives a traumatic experience.
- From this moment on, I choose to live not as a victim, but as a survivor.
- Believing that requires trust, and trust is understandably a tough issue for those of us who are survivors.
- 2
A person who is able to endure hardship.
- I'm a survivor. We're a dying breed.
- 3
One who knew a specific decedent.
- She was from a large family and had many friends, so the funeral was crowded with mourning survivors.
- They left no immediate survivors.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。