vt. 使苏醒, 使复兴, 使振奋, 回想起, 重播

vi. 苏醒, 复活, 复兴, 恢复精神

[医] 复苏, 回生

Revive \Re*vive"\, v. t. [Cf. F. reviver. See {Revive}, v. i.]
1. To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.

Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died,
shall be revived. --Bp. Pearson.

2. To raise from coma, languor, depression, or
discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.

Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts.
--Shak.

Your coming, friends, revives me. --Milton.

3. Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as,
to revive letters or learning.

4. To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection;
to recall attention to; to reawaken. ``Revive the libels
born to die.'' --Swift.

The mind has a power in many cases to revive
perceptions which it has once had. --Locke.

5. (Old Chem.) To restore or reduce to its natural or
metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.


Revive \Re*vive"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Revived}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Reviving}.] [F. revivere, L. revivere; pref. re- re- +
vivere to live. See {Vivid}.]
1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live
anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. --Shak.

The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of
the child came into again, and he revived. --1 Kings
xvii. 22.

2. Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity,
neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in
the fifteenth century.

3. (Old Chem.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a
metal.