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单词 to live dangerously
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to live dangerously
P3. to live dangerously: to live with little regard for one's safety; to take risks habitually; now frequently in weakened sense. rare before 20th cent.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > face danger [verb (intransitive)] > habitually
to live dangerously1930
1577 J. Northbrooke tr. St. Thomas Aquinas in Spiritus est Vicarius Christi in Terra 32 They that haue no exercise, eyther of office, studie, or reading, these liue daungerously that liue ydellye.
a1622 N. Byfield Comm. 2nd Chapter of 1st Epist. St. Peter (1623) 466 Hee liues dangerously, that liues securely: we must take a diligent view of our owne naturall dispositions.
1930 A. Henderson Contemp. Immortals 78 The numerous attempts at assassination give point to Mussolini's avowed motto, after Nietzsche: ‘To live dangerously!’
1939 F. S. Fitzgerald Let. 7 Oct. (1964) 407 I have ‘lived dangerously’ and I may quite possibly have to pay for it.
1962 Listener 9 Aug. 226/1 The spectators in the Bridgearama theatre saw the British pair..living dangerously.
1969 Outdoor Life Mar. 88/2 To fish the stream when the water is running full pipe is to live dangerously.
2007 Palm Beach (Florida) Post (Nexis) 31 Dec. 1 d Strongly in favor of briefs, I decided to live dangerously and try boxers for a while.
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