living

英 ['lɪvɪŋ] 美 ['lɪvɪŋ]

• adj. 活着的；生动的
• n. 生活；生计
• 动词live的现在分词.

双解释义

adj. (形容词)

1. 活(着)的

   alive now

2. 现存的,在使用中的

   existing in use

3. 逼真的,生动的

   exact in likeness

n. (名词)

1. [C]生计,生存之道

   means of keeping alive or of living in a certain style

2. [U]生活方式

   manner of life

详尽释义

adj. 形容词

1. 活着的，活的，有生命的，生存着的
2. 逼真的，生动的
3. 现存的
4. 生活的
5. 维持生活的
6. 在活动中的
7. 充满生气的，活跃的
8. 适于居住的
9. 在使用的
10. 在实施的
11. 在仍活着的人们的记忆中的，记忆犹新的

n. 名词

1. 生计，谋生，生活，生存，活
2. 生活方式，生存之道
3. 收入，财产
4. 活着的人
5. 有俸金住房的牧师职位
6. 教士的俸禄，牧师的薪俸

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1. 动词live的现在分词

英英释义

Noun:

1. the experience of being alive; 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. (informal) absolute;

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

4. 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"
   

5. still in active use;

   "a living language"
   

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

   "carved into the living stone"
   

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. I'll tell you a secret that I have never told a living soul.
   我要告诉你一个我从未告诉过任何人的秘密。
2. He was the greatest living novelist in England.
   他是英国活着的最伟大的小说家。
3. The wilderness is a living museum of natural history.
   这片荒野是一座活生生的自然历史博物馆。

用作名词 (n.)

1. The judge advised him to amend his way of living.
   法官劝告他改变生活方式。
2. We should improve what is called the quality of living.
   我们应该改进所谓的生活品质。
3. What do you do for a living?
   你以什么谋生？

常见句型

用作形容词 (adj.)

用作定语

～+ n.

1. He had ascertained that his son-in-law was among the living prisoners.
   他已查明,他女婿在活着的囚犯之中。
2. They didn't find any living things there.
   他们在那儿没发现任何生物。
3. All living things need air, water and sunlight.
   一切生物都需要空气、水和阳光。
4. He is the greatest living poet.
   他是当代最伟大的诗人。
5. The blue whale is the world's largest living animal.
   蓝鲸是世界上最大的动物。
6. English is a living language.
   英语是现代使用着的语言。
7. My family has a living picture on the wall.
   我家墙上有一幅逼真的图画。
8. The child is the living image of his father.
   这孩子和他父亲长得一模一样。

n. +～

1. No man living could do better.
   现代人没有一个能做得比这更好的了。

用作表语

S+be+～

1. Is the old man still living?
   那老人还活着吗?
2. Some of the plants are dead, but most of them are still living.
   这些植物中有些已经死了,可是大部分还活着。
3. Shelly was still living when Keats died.
   济慈死时,雪莱还在世。

用作名词 (n.)

1. It may not be the best job in the world, but it's a living.
   尽管这不是世界上最好的工作,但不失为生活的出路。
2. In those years they were forced to beg for a living.
   那些年他们被迫出去讨饭。
3. He was condemned to touring the whole country for a living.
   他为生活所迫而走遍全国。
4. She dreams of the day when she will be playing the piano for a living.
   她梦想着有朝一日,能以演奏钢琴为生。
5. She tried to pick up a humble living by selling baskets that she had made by hand.
   她设法卖些自己编织的篮子挣钱糊口。
6. What does he do for a living?
   他靠什么来生活?
7. They enjoy good living.
   他们过着美好的生活。
8. Brasilia has been carefully planned for modern living.
   巴西利亚是为现代生活而精心设计的。
9. The living in the convent narrowed her views.
   修道院生活使她的视野变窄。
10. The prisoners are revolting against living conditions in the prisons by refusing to eat.
    囚犯以绝食来抗议监狱里的生活条件。
11. My pension is sufficient for living expenses.
    我的退休金足以满足生活花销。
12. When father lost his job, our living expenses had to be cut to the bone.
    当父亲失业后,我们的花费不得不降低到最低程度。
13. 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。
14. It shall be our constant endeavour to help improve the living standard of our people.
    我们应该不断努力设法改善我国人民的生活水平。
15. Both the cost and the standard of living were lower before the war.
    战前生活费用和生活水准都很低。
16. 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。
17. The workers marched through the streets with flags and banners to demonstrate against the rising cost of living.
    工人们在街上游行,手执旗帜示威,抗议生活费用的高涨。
18. Wage increases were eaten up by the rise in the cost of living.
    工资的增加全给生活费用的上涨抵消掉了。
19. Mr. Pearson's income allows of no extravagance in his way of living.
    皮尔逊先生的收入不允许他过奢侈的生活。
20. From his manner of dress and style of living,I guess that he is a man of considerable means.
    从他的穿着式样和生活方式看,我揣想,他是个相当富有的人。
21. He dissipated the family fortune in only a few years of wild living.
    他仅仅几年的放荡生活就把家财挥一空。

经典引文

• The ordinary complements to daily living, the plates, the cups, the bowls.

  出自： G. Josipovici

• You are the only man living that can serve my brother.

  出自： R. B. Peake

常用短语

用作形容词 (adj.)

be living proof of

活证明 show sth by the fact that one is alive

用作名词 (n.)

earn a/one's living

谋生,维持生活 get what is necessary for life;make a living

make a living

赚钱过活 gain enough money to support oneself or one's family

词汇搭配

用作形容词 (adj.)

～+名词

• living description 生动的描述
• living interest 强烈的兴趣
• living language 现代语
• living mind 活跃的思维
• living things 生物
• living time 紧张时期

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• earn a living 谋生
• earn one's own living 自谋生计
• gain a living 谋生
• get a living 谋生
• make a living 谋生
• make a good living 过优裕的生活
• offer living 提供食宿
• pick up a living 谋生
• win a living 生活

形容词+～

• bare living 仅仅维持的生活
• comfortable living 舒适的生活
• correct living 正当的生活
• fine living 优质的生活
• good living 优裕的生活
• high living 奢侈的生活
• honest living 正当的生活
• hungry living 食不果腹的生活
• plain living 朴素的生活
• quiet living 安静的生活
• right living 正当的生活
• wild living 放荡的生活
• wrong living 不正当的生活

～+名词

• living conditions 生活条件
• living expenses 生活费用
• living standard 生活水平

介词+～

• depend on rice for living 以大米为主食
• make shoes for a living 以制鞋为生
• cost of living 生活费用
• means of living 谋生方法〔手段〕
• style of living 生活方式
• the art of living 生活的艺术
• way of living 生活方式

～+介词

• living as 靠…为生
• living by 以…为生

词语用法

adj. (形容词)

1. living作形容词的基本意思是“活着的”,指长久存在,活力经久不衰,可用于人也可用于物,还可用于比喻。living在句中作定语时，既可前置也可后置。引申可作“现存的;在使用中的”“逼真的,生动的”解。
2. living无比较级和最高级形式。

n. (名词)

1. living作名词解时，是“生活,生计”的意思,指的是一种谋生的具体方式或手段,是可数名词,常与冠词a连用。
2. living作“生活方式”解时，是不可数名词,不可加a或the。

词义辨析

adj. (形容词)

living, alive, live

• 这三个词共同意思是“活着的,活的”。其区别在于:
• 1.alive多用于人,与dead相对,指“还活着的”,着重于状态; living指没有死、消失,继续存在、活动或起着作用,可修饰人,也可修饰物; 而live指“活的; 真的”,只用于物。
• 2.alive只用作表语或后置定语; living既可用作定语,又可用作表语; 而live仅用作定语。例如：
• The mortally wounded man was unconscious but still alive.那个受了致命伤的人处于昏迷状态,可是还活着。
• He has never seen a live tiger.他从没见过一只活老虎。
• He is the greatest living poet.他是在世的最伟大的诗人。
• Shelly was still living雪莱还活着。

living, life

• 这两个词的共同意思是“生活”。其区别是：
• life指“生涯”,不指赚钱谋生;而living指“生计”,含有赚钱谋生之意。例如:
• My life is really dreadful.我的生活真是糟透了。
• He works for his living as a teacher.他靠教书为生。

n. (名词)

living, livelihood, support

• 这三个词均可表示一个人的谋生方式。其区别是：
• living是一般用语,泛指生计;livelihood尤指某人赖以谋生的工作。例如:
• Painting, once merely a hobby, became his livelihood.绘画先前不过是他的一种业余爱好,后来成了他的维持生计的工作。
• support指一人对另一人的赡养或抚养。例如:
• He depended on his parents for support.他靠父母抚养。

living, life

• 这两个词的共同意思是“生活”。其区别是：
• life指“生涯”,不指赚钱谋生;而living指“生计”,含有赚钱谋生之意。例如:
• My life is really dreadful.我的生活真是糟透了。
• He works for his living as a teacher.他靠教书为生。

alive，live，living

• 这些形容词均有“活着的，活的”之意。
• alive其反义词为dead，指生命从奄奄一息到精力旺盛的各种状态。
• live通常作定语，指活生生的，生气勃勃的，还可表示现场直播的。
• living其反义词为dead，指包括人和动植物的生命没有消失、仍然存在的状态。

词源解说

• ☆ 直接源自古英语的libban，意为居住在某地。

近反义词

【近义词】

• active
• alive
• animated
• breathing
• existing
• live
• lively
• strong
• vigorous
• livelihood
• maintenance

【反义词】

• dead
• sluggish