1、look up

（在參考書、列表等中）查檢（事實或信息）

I looked your address up in the personnel file.

我在人事檔案里找到了你的地址。

Many people have to look up the meaning of this word in the dictionary.

這個詞的意思很多人都要查字典才知道。

拜訪，探訪，看望（久未見面的人）

I'll try to look him up, ask him a few questions.

我會設法登門拜訪，問他幾個問題。

She looked up some friends of bygone years.

她去看望了一些過去的老朋友。

改善；好轉

Things could be looking up in the computer industry.

計算機行業的情況可能會好轉。

2、survive

生存;存活;幸存

the sequence of events that left the eight pupils battling to survive in icy seas for over four hours.

致使這 8 個小學生在冰冷的海水里掙扎求生四個多小時的一連串事件

Those organisms that are most suited to the environment will be those that will survive.

最適宜該環境的微生物將會存活下來。

挺過;艱難度過

On my first day here I thought, 'Ooh, how will I survive?'

我第一天到這兒時就想，“天哪，我怎么能挺過去呢?”

people who are struggling to survive without jobs.

艱難度日的失業者

幸存;幸免于難;留存

When the market economy is introduced, many factories will not survive.

引入市場經濟后，許多工廠將面臨倒閉。

The chances of a planet surviving a supernova always looked terribly slim.

行星躲過超新星爆發的幾率總是十分渺茫。