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Living
生词本

  • 易混淆的单词：living  

  • 柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典

  • 英英释义

  • 词典例句

1. N-COUNT 生计；饭碗 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。

2. N-UNCOUNT 生活质量；生活素质；生活（方式） 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

3. ADJ 居住的；起居的 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。

4. N-PLURAL 生者；活着的人们 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。

5. PHRASE 艰难度日，勉强糊口（美国英语中作scrape out a living或scratch out a living） 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。

6.   living proof→see: proof;  in living memory→see: memory;  the world owes them a living→see: world; 
Noun

1. the experience of living; the course of human events and activities;

  • "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"

2. people who are still living;

  • "save your pity for the living"

3. the condition of living or the state of being alive;

  • "while there's life there's hope"
  • "life depends on many chemical and physical processes"

4. the financial means whereby one lives;

  • "each child was expected to pay for their keep"
  • "he applied to the state for support"
  • "he could no longer earn his own livelihood"
Adjective

1. pertaining to living persons;

  • "within living memory"

2. true to life; lifelike;

  • "the living image of her mother"

3. dwelling or inhabiting; often used in combination;

  • "living quarters"
  • "tree-living animals"

4. (informal) absolute;

  • "she is a living doll"
  • "scared the living daylights out of them"
  • "beat the living hell out of him"

5. still in existence;

  • "the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil"
  • "the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania"

6. still in active use;

  • "a living language"

7. (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried;

  • "carved into the living stone";
1. A few months living away from home have given him renewed self-confidence.
离家几个月的生活使他重新获得了自信心。

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2. A reduced standard of living will develop from increasing taxation and rising unemployment.
捐税的增长和失业人数的上升将会导致生活水平的降低。

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3. After Jane had been living apart from Fair for six months, she decided to return to him.
简和费尔分居六个月后就决定回到他身边。

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4. After going up for six months, the cost of living leveled off in September.
生活费用上涨了六个月以后于九月份稳定下来。

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5. After living in London, this little town seems like the back of beyond.
在伦敦住了以后，这个小镇像是个极偏僻的地方。

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6. All living beings require food.
一切生物都需要食物。

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7. All living matter undergoes a process of metabolism.
生物都有新陈代谢。

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8. All living things depend on the sun for their growth.
万物靠太阳生长。

来自《简明英汉词典》

9. All this gracious living isn't for me; I prefer the simple life.
这优裕的生活不适合我，我宁愿过简朴的生活。

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10. Already low living standards have been worsened by stringent economic reforms.
严谨的经济改革使本已很低的生活水平愈加恶化。

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11. An Asian is a person born or living in Asia.
亚洲人是指出生或居住在亚洲的人。

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12. Any resemblance of a character in this book to a living person is purely incidental.
书中人物如有雷同，纯属巧合。

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13. Are your parents living?
你父母还健在吗？

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14. As production has developed,the living standard of the peasants has risen considerably.
农民的生活水平随着生产的发展而大大提高。

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15. As the economy develops, the living conditions of the people have been improved accordingly.
经济发展了，人民的生活水平也随着提高了。

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

16. As the wages advanced, so did the cost of living.
随着工资的提高，生活费用也提高了。

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17. At the end of the film, the hero beat the living daylights out of the villain.
影片在接近尾声时，主人公把坏蛋狠揍了一顿。

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18. Better living conditions mean more live births and fewer stillbirths.
生活条件改善就会有较多的活产，较少的死产。

来自《简明英汉词典》

19. Biology is the study of living things.
生物学是对生物的研究。

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

20. Both of my parents are living now.
我父母健在。

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》