live
v. 居住; 生存,活着; 生活; 以…为生; 留存,铭记; 恪守(信念等)
adj. 活的; 现场直播的; 通电的; 仍可爆炸的
If someone lives in a particular place or with a particular person, their home is in that place or with that person.
She has lived here for 10 years...
她在这里住了10年了。
She always said I ought to live alone...
她总说我应该一个人住。
If you say that someone lives in particular circumstances or that they live a particular kind of life, you mean that they are in those circumstances or that they have that kind of life.
We lived quite grandly...
我们生活得非常快乐。
Compared to people living only a few generations ago, we have greater opportunities to have a good time...
比起上几辈人,我们有更多机会享受生活。
If you say that someone lives for a particular thing, you mean that it is the most important thing in their life.
He lived for his work.
他为工作而活。
To live means to be alive. If someone lives to a particular age, they stay alive until they are that age.
He's got a terrible disease and will not live long...
他已身患重疾,时日无多。
A perennial is a plant that lives indefinitely...
多年生植物是指能存活很多年的植物。
If people live by doing a particular activity, they get the money, food, or clothing they need by doing that activity.
...the last indigenous people to live by hunting...
最后一个狩猎为生的土著民族
These crimes were committed largely by professional criminals who lived by crime.
这些罪案大都是由以犯罪为生的职业罪犯制造的。
If you live by a particular rule, belief, or ideal, you behave in the way in which it says you should behave.
They live by the principle that we are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we want from it.
他们恪守着这样的原则:我们来到世上是要为生活做贡献,而不是从中索取。
If a person or occasion lives in someone's mind or in history, they are remembered for a long time.
The memory of that will live with me for many years to come...
那个记忆将会伴随我多年。
His name will live in history as one of the greatest bowlers of all time...
他将会作为史上最伟大的板球投手之一而留名青史。
If you say that someone lives and breathes a particular subject or activity, you are emphasizing that they are extremely enthusiastic about it.
He has lived and breathed polo since he was seven.
他从7岁开始就一直热衷于马球。
If you tell someone that they haven't lived unless they experience a particular thing, you are telling them that thing is extremely good and should be experienced.
If you have never been to an opera, you haven't lived...
要是从来没看过歌剧,那就枉过此生了。
You haven't lived until you've used their new micro system.
要是没用过他们新的微系统,这辈子就算白活了。
You can use expressions such as to live in fear and to live in terror to indicate that someone is always thinking about an unpleasant or frightening event, because they think that it might happen.
One in 10 Californians is unemployed and thousands more live in fear of losing their jobs.
十分之一的加利福尼亚人没有工作,还有数以千计的人成天提心吊胆地害怕失去工作。
You say live and let live as a way of saying that you should let other people behave in the way that they want to and not criticize them for behaving differently from you.
If you live it up, you have a very enjoyable and exciting time, for example by going to lots of parties or going out drinking with friends.
There is no reason why you couldn't live it up once in a while.
偶尔放纵一下也无妨。
1. make one's home or live in;
2. lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style;
3. continue to live; endure or last;
4. support oneself;
5. have life, be alive;
6. have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations;
7. pursue a positive and satisfying existence;
1. actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing;
2. showing characteristics of life; exerting force or containing energy;
3. highly reverberant;
4. charged with an explosive;
5. rebounds readily;
6. abounding with life and energy;
7. in current use or ready for use;
8. of current relevance;
9. charged or energized with electricity;
10. having life;
11. capable of erupting;
1. not recorded;
alive, live, living
这些形容词均有"活着的,活的"之意。
dwell, reside, live, lodge, inhabit, settle
这些动词均有"居住,定居"之意。
exist, be, live
这些动词都有"存在"之意。
live down
洗心革面:在一段时间后克服或减轻了(如罪行)带来的耻辱
live in
寄宿于工作处
live out
不住在受雇的主人家
live with
忍受;顺应
as I live and breathe
[多用于英语口语中,表达见到某人某事的惊喜]真没想到
be living on borrowed time
live and breathe something
热衷于
live and let live
(谚)给别人留点儿面子(或: 自己活也让别人活;相互宽容)
live by one's wits
live dangerously
活在刀刃上
live for the moment
live in hope
乐观,活在希望中
live in the past
活在过去里,思想守旧,老古董
live in sin
We managed to record the whole of the concert from a live studio broadcast.
我们设法把现场直播音乐会的全部节目录了下来.
If you live on a mountain , you live off the mountain ; if you live by the water , you live off the water.
靠山吃山, 靠水吃水.
The islanders live by fishing.
那些岛民靠捕鱼为生.
Providing that you exercise due care, there is no reason why you shouldn't live to a great age.
只要你适当地注意, 你就可享有很高的寿命.
Rabbits live under the ground.
兔子住在地下.