| 单词 | living |
| 释义 | living (lɪvɪŋ ) Word forms: livings 1. countable noun [usually singular] B2 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. He earns his living doing all kinds of things. Synonyms: livelihood, work, job, maintenance 2. uncountable noun B2 You use living when you are talking about the quality of people's daily lives. Olivia has always been a model of healthy living. ...the stresses of urban living. 3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] 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. The study links the main living area to the kitchen. 4. plural noun 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. 5. to scrape a living phrase [VERB inflects] 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. 6. living proof phrase [usually verb-link PHRASE, oft PHR that, PHR of n] If you say that someone is living proof of something, you mean that their actions or personal qualities show that a particular fact is true or that a particular quality exists. He is living proof that some players just get better with age. 7. in living memory phrase If you say that something is, for example, the best, worst, or first thing of its kind in living memory, you are emphasizing that it is the only thing of that kind that people can remember. [emphasis] The floods are the worst in living memory. No-one in living memory has come back from that place alive. 8. the world owes them a living phrase [VERB inflects] If you say that someone thinks that the world owes them a living, you are criticizing them because they think it is their right to have a comfortable life without having to make any effort at all. [disapproval] Young people must not kid themselves that the world owes them a living. Quotations: The living are the dead on holiday Idioms: a living hell a situation or a place that is extremely unpleasant or that causes great suffering. School is a living hell for some children. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers someone is living off the fat of the land said to mean that someone has a rich and comfortable lifestyle without having to work hard for it It is not true that foreigners can walk into Britain and live instantly off the fat of the land. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers a living death an extremely poor quality of life, for example when someone is so ill that they are unlikely to recover For nearly four years he has been in a coma, kept alive by medical equipment, but trapped in what one doctor described as a `living death'. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers scare the living daylights out of someone to frighten someone very much You scared the living daylights out of me last night. All that screaming. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers beat the living daylights out of someone to attack someone physically, hitting them many times The two men were beating the living daylights out of each other. to defeat someone totally in a competition or contest He enjoys the money and the fame but his true pleasure comes from walking on to a golf course and beating the living daylights out of everyone else. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers be living on borrowed time to not be expected to survive for much longer From this moment onwards, this government is living on borrowed time. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: living museum It unites three ancient palaces and still maintains several heritage rooms — effectively a living museum. The Sun Transformed into a 'living museum', it hosts weekly costumed displays of artisan crafts. Times, Sunday Times It was the space itself that was the important thing, so he decided to open it as a living museum. Times, Sunday Times A living museum, full of joy, humour and enthusiasm. The Sun It took eight years to develop the area into a living museum, using volunteer labour and working bees in the weekends. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But two or three bad apples can turn a classroom into a living nightmare. The Sun She added that it was 'like a living nightmare'. The Sun But will it be a dream mix, or a living nightmare? The Sun It said sterling's fall and customer unrest since the referendum had created a 'living nightmare'. Times, Sunday Times For some of the workers it feels like a living nightmare. The Sun The opening allegro grows and moves like a living organism; the serenities and agitations of the pastoral andante are beautifully realised. Times, Sunday Times The intermezzo has a unique mourning intensity; the whole work breathes like a living organism. Times, Sunday Times Cities are not a static collection of roads and buildings; they flower and change over time as a four-dimensional living organism. Times,Sunday Times She estimated one to be 41,000 years old - the oldest living organism yet. The Sun At that point you've really got a computer far smarter than a human running inside a living organism. The Sun But as she now has no living relative with the disease she cannot be tested for it. The Sun Of these, 507 gained a kidney from a living relative. Times, Sunday Times Yet millions of pounds go unclaimed each year, often due to the deceased failing to leave a will and the closest living relative being a distant family member. Times, Sunday Times As his closest living relative, she could inherit his estate under state law. The Sun There must also be a close living relative to act as a surrogate. Times, Sunday Times I'm also sceptical about the answer being 'someone who's never made a mistake, ever' or 'a living saint'. Times, Sunday Times Despite the disclaimer, for many people across the world the affable former convict, apparently devoid of bitterness after 27 years of incarceration, was precisely that: a living saint. Times, Sunday Times But they couldn't help talking about him as though he were some amalgam of living saint and family pet. Times, Sunday Times People of the neighborhood thought of her as a living saint. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Countless thousands of all creeds considered her a living saint worthy of canonization. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The living sculpture duo present a series of new works. Times, Sunday Times We wanted a living sculpture, a one-off moment. Times, Sunday Times Her shaven head and strikingly thin yet muscular arms gave her the look of a living sculpture. Times, Sunday Times Apparently, the gallery issued the living sculpture duo with 500 invitations, and couldn't be persuaded to part with any more. Times, Sunday Times The lasting pleasures of occupying a piece of 'living sculpture' will far outweigh the inevitable frustrations. Times, Sunday Times They are, after all, made not from one-eyed observation but from experience of the living thing. The Times Literary Supplement I can't see or hear a single living thing. Times,Sunday Times And a living thing consists of a body (the matter) and a soul (the form). Times, Sunday Times His final act aimed to provide a lasting legacy for his concern for every living thing. Times, Sunday Times Was the first living thing a hollow rock? Times, Sunday Times Any gentle stress, when applied to a single spot repetitively can destroy living tissue. Christianity Today All living tissue contains not only 'normal'; carbon but also a radioactive carbon ('radio-carbon'; or 'carbon-14';). Christianity Today The process starts with muscle cells taken in a biopsy, which are printed into structures that fuse into small pieces of living tissue. Times, Sunday Times The cells form a living tissue that has a shelf life of about a week, but when frozen in liquid nitrogen, it can be stored for years. Times, Sunday Times Conversely, too little stress also affects living tissue. Christianity Today Born in 1878, he made a meagre living until 1914 by writing topographical and nature books, and endless book reviews. Times, Sunday Times The money had run out long ago, leaving him and his family to eke out a meagre living in a foreign country, completely cut off from loved ones. The Sun But fortunes have just taken a dramatic turn upward after years of the family scratching together a meagre living fishing other species whenever they could. Globe and Mail Precious came looking for an aunt she had heard was living here, peddling vegetables on the streets for a meagre living. Times, Sunday Times He made a meagre living painting portraits of the local gentry and members of the professional classes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Not surprisingly, hard work, thrift, attention to detail and modest living are principles they have never forgotten. Times, Sunday Times As far as modest living goes, the prince has a lot of catching up to do. Times, Sunday Times Not many people have the luxury of a dedicated auditorium, but good film and sound quality can be achieved in a modest living room. Times, Sunday Times They are all crammed into a tiny space about the size of a modest living room. The Sun And that means the difference between creating a business that will provide you with a modest living and one that could be sold for millions. Times, Sunday Times So throw another sustainable log on the fire, batten down the triple-glazing and let our rural living tips warm you up. Times,Sunday Times Instead of mythologizing rural living, we must fight to understand it-the good and the bad and the hard. Christianity Today I've known and loved the hard-working ordinariness of rural living my whole life. Christianity Today More than 3,000 people responded to a survey commissioned by the fund on the challenges of rural living. Times, Sunday Times Fancy rural living with all mod cons? Times, Sunday Times They held meetings over cups of tea in humdrum suburban living rooms. Times, Sunday Times The population explosion coincided with the growth of suburban living. Times, Sunday Times They invented the railways, which led to the suburbs, so they pioneered suburban living. Times, Sunday Times The article suggested that diverse demographic elements within a community might necessarily find suburban living comfortable. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Economic function may change, for example when improved transport brings commuters to industrial suburbs or railway towns in search of suburban living. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The brief was to come up with a design that was sympathetic yet modern and would encourage sustainable living. Times, Sunday Times But the family want to take sustainable living even further. Times, Sunday Times He has just six days to build his own home - a two-storey monument to sustainable living - live on television. Times, Sunday Times It was refreshing to have an alternative to all that peace, love and sustainable living. Times, Sunday Times Police claim all the sustainable living has had a positive effect on crime levels. The Sun Yet, while the stresses of urban living were known early, the causes were not. Times, Sunday Times Explaining these differences will require taking account of variables such as average age, common occupations, urban living and household sizes. Times,Sunday Times Foxes used to be nightly, and increasingly daily, components of modern urban living. Times, Sunday Times And when it comes to urban living, your daily commute and your budget. Times, Sunday Times He said multi-tier systems were the equivalent of high-rise urban living for hens. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 生活 Japanese: 生活 |
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