英语词汇“to live fast”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. to live fast.

(a) To expend one's vital energy or physical resources at a rapid rate. Now usually with reference to animals having a relatively short life cycle or in the specific sense of Phrases 2b(b).

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the world > life > source or principle of life > [verb (intransitive)] > live fast

to live fast1656

1656 R. Fletcher tr. Martial Epigrams ii. cx. in Ex Otio Negotium 22 Pardon though poor, nor struck in yeares, I hast To live, since no man strives to live too fast [L. properat vivere nemo satis].

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks II. iv. 127 As if they liv'd the fastest who took the greatest Pains to enjoy least of Life.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 504 In revolutions men live fast: the experience of years is crowded into hours.

1851 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. (ed. 2) 78 Cold-blooded animals live much faster..at high temperatures, than at low; so that they die much sooner.

2004 National Geographic Feb. 84/1 As if on a high-speed biological clock, patas monkeys live fast, reproducing at the earliest age of any Old World monkey.

(b) To live life in an extravagant, unconventional, or dissipated way. Cf. fast adj. 9a, fast-living adj. at Compounds 1b(c).

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > live dissolutely [verb (intransitive)]

riotc1405

jet?1518

royet1591

to live fast1673

rake1700

rant1700

to go the pace1829

racketeer1929

1673 T. Shadwell Epsom-Wells i. 4 Wood. Faith I take pains and live as fast as I can... Bev. Thou art in the right, and a Pox on them that live slowly, lazily, and soberly.

1699 T. Brown tr. Erasmus in R. L'Estrange 20 Sel. Colloquies (new ed.) iv. 26 Living very fast, as they say, [he] has brought his Noble to Nine-pence.

1754 World 19 Sept. ⁋2 He has lived rather fast formerly.

1820 W. Irving John Bull in Sketch Bk. vi. 24 They fear he has lived too fast.

1901 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 830 Racing, betting, gambling to any amount, jewels, entertainments, and living fast all round account for the expenditure.

2013 Esquire (Nexis) Dec. s36 When you are young, you think you are immortal so you like to live fast.

(c) live fast, die young (also more fully live fast, die young, and have a good-looking corpse and variants): used as a motto or expression of ethos for a young person committed to an extravagant, unconventional, or dissipated lifestyle. Also as a modifier.Both the shorter and longer forms of the phrase are often associated with, and sometimes wrongly credited to, the American actor, James Dean (1931–55). Compare rebel without a cause at rebel n.¹ 1b.See also more literal uses in the sense of Phrases 2b(a), e.g. quot. 2008.

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1920 Modesto (Calif.) Evening News 25 Aug. 1/6 ‘I intend to live a fast life, die young and be a beautiful corpse,’ Mrs. Luce wrote.

1924 Porter (Oklahoma) News 24 July 5/2 He said that he would not be the like the young college chap who would live fast, die young and have a good looking corpse.

1947 W. Motley Knock on any Door xxxv. 157 When the beer came Nick lifted and tilted the brown liquid in past the yellow foam. ‘Live fast, die young, and have a good-looking corpse!’ he said with a toss of the head.

1957 Lubbock (Texas) Evening Jrnl. 26 Mar. 1/2 (headline) Two Robin Hoods planned to live fast, die young.

2002 Total Film Mar. 21/2 The all-American ‘live fast, die young, leave a beautiful corpse’ philosophy.

2020 @AdanniaUfondu 2 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 10 Dec.) YOLO babeee. Live fast die young!!

单词	to live fast
释义	> as lemmas to live fast b. to live fast. (a) To expend one's vital energy or physical resources at a rapid rate. Now usually with reference to animals having a relatively short life cycle or in the specific sense of Phrases 2b(b). ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [verb (intransitive)] > live fast to live fast1656 1656 R. Fletcher tr. Martial Epigrams ii. cx. in Ex Otio Negotium 22 Pardon though poor, nor struck in yeares, I hast To live, since no man strives to live too fast [L. properat vivere nemo satis]. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks II. iv. 127 As if they liv'd the fastest who took the greatest Pains to enjoy least of Life. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 504 In revolutions men live fast: the experience of years is crowded into hours. 1851 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. (ed. 2) 78 Cold-blooded animals live much faster..at high temperatures, than at low; so that they die much sooner. 2004 National Geographic Feb. 84/1 As if on a high-speed biological clock, patas monkeys live fast, reproducing at the earliest age of any Old World monkey. (b) To live life in an extravagant, unconventional, or dissipated way. Cf. fast adj. 9a, fast-living adj. at Compounds 1b(c). ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > live dissolutely [verb (intransitive)] riotc1405 jet?1518 royet1591 to live fast1673 rake1700 rant1700 to go the pace1829 racketeer1929 1673 T. Shadwell Epsom-Wells i. 4 Wood. Faith I take pains and live as fast as I can... Bev. Thou art in the right, and a Pox on them that live slowly, lazily, and soberly. 1699 T. Brown tr. Erasmus in R. L'Estrange 20 Sel. Colloquies (new ed.) iv. 26 Living very fast, as they say, [he] has brought his Noble to Nine-pence. 1754 World 19 Sept. ⁋2 He has lived rather fast formerly. 1820 W. Irving John Bull in Sketch Bk. vi. 24 They fear he has lived too fast. 1901 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 830 Racing, betting, gambling to any amount, jewels, entertainments, and living fast all round account for the expenditure. 2013 Esquire (Nexis) Dec. s36 When you are young, you think you are immortal so you like to live fast. (c) live fast, die young (also more fully live fast, die young, and have a good-looking corpse and variants): used as a motto or expression of ethos for a young person committed to an extravagant, unconventional, or dissipated lifestyle. Also as a modifier.Both the shorter and longer forms of the phrase are often associated with, and sometimes wrongly credited to, the American actor, James Dean (1931–55). Compare rebel without a cause at rebel n.¹ 1b.See also more literal uses in the sense of Phrases 2b(a), e.g. quot. 2008. ΚΠ 1920 Modesto (Calif.) Evening News 25 Aug. 1/6 ‘I intend to live a fast life, die young and be a beautiful corpse,’ Mrs. Luce wrote. 1924 Porter (Oklahoma) News 24 July 5/2 He said that he would not be the like the young college chap who would live fast, die young and have a good looking corpse. 1947 W. Motley Knock on any Door xxxv. 157 When the beer came Nick lifted and tilted the brown liquid in past the yellow foam. ‘Live fast, die young, and have a good-looking corpse!’ he said with a toss of the head. 1957 Lubbock (Texas) Evening Jrnl. 26 Mar. 1/2 (headline) Two Robin Hoods planned to live fast, die young. 2002 Total Film Mar. 21/2 The all-American ‘live fast, die young, leave a beautiful corpse’ philosophy. 2020 @AdanniaUfondu 2 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 10 Dec.) YOLO babeee. Live fast die young!! extracted from fastadv.int. < as lemmas
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