living
adj. 活(着)的; 在使用中的; 生动的
n. 生活方式; 生计; 收入; 生者; (尤指旧时)有俸金住房的牧师职位
The work that you do for a living is the work that you do in order to earn the money that you need.
Father never talked about what he did for a living...
父亲从不谈他的谋生之道。
He earns his living doing all kinds of things.
他做各种各样的活计来谋生。
You use living when you are talking about the quality of people's daily lives.
Olivia has always been a model of healthy living.
奥利维娅一向是健康生活的楷模。
...the stresses of urban living.
城市生活的压力
You use living to talk about the places where people relax when they are not working.
The spacious living quarters were on the second floor...
宽敞的生活区位于3楼。
The study links the main living area to the kitchen.
书房把主要的生活区与厨房连在一起。
The living are people who are alive, rather than people who have died.
The young man is dead. We have only to consider the living.
这位年轻人已经死了。我们只能考虑在生之人。
If you say that someone scrapes a living or scratches a living, you mean that they manage to earn enough to live on, but it is very difficult. In American English, you say they scrape out a living or scratch out a living .
He almost manages to scrape a living as an artist.
他靠当艺术家来勉强混口饭吃。
1. the experience of living; the course of human events and activities;
2. people who are still living;
3. the condition of living or the state of being alive;
4. the financial means whereby one lives;
1. pertaining to living persons;
2. true to life; lifelike;
3. dwelling or inhabiting; often used in combination;
4. (informal) absolute;
5. still in existence;
6. still in active use;
7. (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried;
alive, live, living
这些形容词均有"活着的,活的"之意。
be (the) living proof that (或 of)
是活生生的例子
in (或 within) living memory
记忆中
the living image of
活脱脱一个…,活像
He makes a living by doing odd job.
他通过做临时的工作来谋生.
We are living in the information era.
我们生活在信息时代.
Nowadays it is very easy to earn a living.
现今谋生很容易.
There're some savages living in the forest.
森林里居住着一些野人.
The fall in the cost of living is directly relevant to the drop in the prices of many industrial products and agricultural produce.
生活费的下降和工农业产品价格的下降有着密切关系.