endure

柯林斯詞典

1. V-T If you endure a painful or difficult situation, you experience it and do not avoid it or give up, usually because you cannot. 承受
The company endured heavy financial losses. 公司承受了沉重的財(cái)務(wù)損失。
2. V-I If something endures, it continues to exist without any loss in quality or importance. 延續(xù)
Somehow the language endures and continues to survive. 由於某種原因，這種語(yǔ)言持續(xù)生存下來(lái)了。
3. enduringADJ 持久的
This chance meeting was the start of an enduring friendship. 這次偶然的相遇是一段持久友情的開(kāi)始。

During the war many couples had to endure long periods of separation .
The family said they had endured years of torment and abuse at the hands of the neighbours .
Words alone cannot convey the untold misery endured by people in these refugee camps .
By the third month of the expedition they had endured many hardships , but worse was to follow .
He endured his illness with great stoicism .