Researchers from Brigham Young University analyzed 148 studies with a total of some 300,000 participants, tracking their social relationships and whether they survived to the end of their particular study, which averaged about seven years.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

To say that they survived is just saying that they're still alive.

说他们幸存下来,是指他们还活着

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Interestingly enough, ten years ago somebody found photos taken by this Parisian of the siege in the Commune in the back of the Hotel de Ville; they were found ten years ago, they had survived.

令人颇感惊奇的是,在十年前,有人发现了由巴黎人所拍的,公社在市政厅后被围的一些相片,它们于十年前被发现,居然得以留存完好

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

They said close to ninety percent of the trees planted with the device survived.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

She says that people should praise refugees for what they have survived.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

They had ten children together. Seven of them survived.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

Without it,they said, only about ten percent survived.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

You might wonder how such treasures survived the hurricanes,fires, and recessions that have surely battered the area and indeed they have.

VOA: standard.2010.03.15