living
adj. 活(著)的; 在使用中的; 生動的
n. 生活方式; 生計; 收入; 生者; (尤指舊時)有俸金住房的牧師職位
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...
父親從不談他的謀生之道。
He earns his living doing all kinds of things.
他做各種各樣的活計來謀生。
You use living when you are talking about the quality of people's daily lives.
Olivia has always been a model of healthy living.
奧利維婭一向是健康生活的楷模。
...the stresses of urban living.
城市生活的壓力
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...
寬敞的生活區位於3樓。
The study links the main living area to the kitchen.
書房把主要的生活區與廚房連在一起。
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.
這位年輕人已經死了。我們只能考慮在生之人。
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.
他靠當藝術家來勉強混口飯吃。
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
這些形容詞均有"活著的,活的"之意。
be (the) living proof that (或 of)
是活生生的例子
in (或 within) living memory
記憶中
the living image of
活脫脫一個…,活像
He makes a living by doing odd job.
他透過做臨時的工作來謀生.
We are living in the information era.
我們生活在資訊時代.
Nowadays it is very easy to earn a living.
現今謀生很容易.
There're some savages living in the forest.
森林裡居住著一些野人.
The fall in the cost of living is directly relevant to the drop in the prices of many industrial products and agricultural produce.
生活費的下降和工農業產品價格的下降有著密切關係.