| 单词 | alive |
| 释义 | alive (əlaɪv ) 1. adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE] B1+ If people or animals are alive, they are not dead. She does not know if he is alive or dead. They kept her alive on a life support machine. Synonyms: living, breathing, animate, having life 2. adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE] If you say that someone seems alive, you mean that they seem to be very lively and to enjoy everything that they do. Our relationship made me feel more alive. I never expected to feel so alive in my life again. Synonyms: lively, spirited, active, vital 3. adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE] If an activity, organization, or situation is alive, it continues to exist or function. The big factories are trying to stay alive by cutting costs. Both communities have a tradition of keeping history alive. Synonyms: in existence, existing, functioning, active 4. adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE] If a place is alive with something, there are a lot of people or things there and it seems busy or exciting. The river was alive with birds. [+ with] The street was alive with the sounds of the soldiers. 5. adjective [v-link ADJ to n/wh] If you are alive to a situation or problem, you are aware of it and realize how important it is. You must be alive to opportunity! He was alive to what he was doing. 6. come alive phrase If people, places, or events come alive, they start to be lively again after a quiet period. If someone or something brings them alive, they cause them to come alive. The doctor's voice had come alive and his small eyes shone. ...the songs of birds that bring the garden alive. 7. come/bring alive phrase If a story or description comes alive, it becomes interesting, lively, or realistic. If someone or something brings it alive, they make it seem more interesting, lively, or realistic. She made history come alive with tales from her own memories. From here on he brings the character confidently alive. 8. to be eaten alive phrase [VERB inflects] If you say that someone will be eaten alive, you mean that they will be completely destroyed or defeated by someone who is much stronger. [informal] He was certain Sid would be eaten alive by the hardened criminals in the jail. 9. alive and kicking phrase If you say that someone or something is alive and kicking, you are emphasizing not only that they continue to survive, but also that they are very active. [emphasis] ...worries that the secret police may still be alive and kicking. Synonyms: alive, existing, functioning, breathing 10. alive and well phrase If you say that someone or something is alive and well, you are emphasizing that they continue to survive. [emphasis] A man who went missing yesterday during a blizzard has been found alive and well. Synonyms: well, strong, sound, fit Idioms: someone will eat someone alive said to mean that someone will completely defeat someone else Sid will be eaten alive by the hardened criminals at the jail. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers skin someone alive to make someone suffer a lot in order to get an advantage for yourself They are fiercely competitive. If they can skin us alive in business, they will. to punish someone severely Who let the cat out? You catch that animal, Ernie, or I'll skin you alive! Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers eat someone alive to cause someone great pain or distress The pain ate him alive; the world was nothing but fire and pain. to repeatedly bite someone `Can we go out?' `Outside? The mosquitoes will eat us alive!' Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers alive and kicking if someone or something is alive and kicking, they are still active or still exist, even though a lot of people might have expected them to have stopped or disappeared a long time ago Romance is still alive and kicking for a couple who will be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary this week. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: barely alive He and a companion were barely alive when they were taken off the mountain. Times, Sunday Times They found her barely alive in the half-flooded boat, whispering 'water'. The Sun She was found 20 days later, emaciated and barely alive, having survived by sipping spring water. Times, Sunday Times She was barely alive after spending 85 hours without water. Times, Sunday Times Social care must be about more than just keeping people barely alive. Times, Sunday Times I need to take those risks to feel fully human, fully alive. Christianity Today When we are mindful, we are fully alive, and we know it. Times, Sunday Times We are part of nature and only fully alive through it. Times, Sunday Times It's a living dialectic; it requires fully alive professors to maintain it. Christianity Today We need interaction with others to feel fully alive. Times, Sunday Times I don't even know if my birth father is still alive. The Sun (2009) Yes, you could argue that identity politics is still alive the other way round. Times, Sunday Times (2008) He summarizes and comments on the anonymized accounts one by one, and includes interviews with those still alive. The Times Literary Supplement (2017) Three men who had been playing mahjong together were still alive. Times, Sunday Times (2008) In one sense it has made you feel exalted and truly alive, but in another has ignited all your insecurities about weight and self-esteem. Times, Sunday Times But also more exercise and more of the other natural, physical things that make us feel truly alive. Times, Sunday Times Some say that nothing so simple could be considered truly alive. Times, Sunday Times I am so ashamed, but also elated and truly alive. Times, Sunday Times But it lets you know that you are truly alive, doesn't it? Times, Sunday Times From that moment, the match was vividly alive. Times, Sunday Times I play the stunning orchestral suite quite often, at which time the film comes vividly alive again and again. Times, Sunday Times His prose brings it vividly alive. Times,Sunday Times Not many realtors could be so vividly alive, immersed in the poetry of their trade ('high-end, a buck-twenty, per') or so polemical. Times, Sunday Times His characters are vividly alive. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 活着的 Japanese: 生きている |
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