单词 | to live up |
释义 | > as lemmasto live up to live up 1. intransitive. to live up to: (originally) to act in accordance with (a principle, one's status, etc.); (now chiefly) to meet (an expectation).to live up to one's name: see name n. and adj. Phrases 16. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > act in accordance with [verb (transitive)] goOE sue?c1335 suit1647 act1649 to live up to1650 assimilate1792 the world > action or operation > carrying out > observance or carrying out a promise, law, etc. > observe or carry out a promise, law, etc. [verb (transitive)] > advice, method, or principle > act in full accordance with to live up to1650 act1747 1650 Disc. conc. Affaires Ireland 3 We proceed not to the defalcation of a person who is not incurable, and to count any one desperate and derelict, is tacitely to resolve not to live up to the extensive latitude, and intensive heigth of our Religions. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 125. ⁋1 All those who do not live up to the Principles of Reason and Virtue. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 163. ¶4 I Am one of your Disciples, and endeavour to live up to your Rules. 1832 J. S. Knowles Hunchback i. i. 9 Your fortune..is ample; And doubtless you live up to't. 1837 G. E. Corrie 17 Sept. in Mem. (1890) iv. 90 I had an interesting conversation with the Squire on the duty of living up to one's convictions. 1863 S. Moody What is your Name? ix. 201 Nobly did the lowly-born fisherman of the Sea of Galilee live up to his name. 1905 E. Wharton House of Mirth i. i. 12 I always feel that to live up to them would include wearing book-muslin with gigot sleeves. 1943 D. Whipple They were Sisters xxi. 243 She knew..that Vera could never be happy until she tried to live up to her own standards. 1978 Jrnl. Brit. Stud. 18 110 A son could inherit little..except, perhaps, the responsibility to live up to his father's example. 2008 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 9 Mar. (Men's Fashion Mag.) 68 Frozen by the pressure to live up to his reputation, he plunged deeper into alcoholism. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > [verb (intransitive)] > lead a virtuous life to live welleOE to live up1665 1665 M. Mead Solomon's Prescript. 48 To be a diligent Server of the most holy God, is made a matter of reproach? To live up in the Principles of that Religion, we all pretend to, is to expose ones self..to scoffs and jears? 1682 J. Dryden Religio Laici 13 Those who follow'd Reasons Dictates right; Liv'd up, and lifted high their Natural Light. 3. transitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). With it: to live extravagantly; to have a good time. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > spend [verb (transitive)] > spend to the limits of to live up1948 1948 Chicago Tribune 30 Jan. 14/7 Dillon..told officials he had been dipping into bank funds for several years and that ‘I just lived it up’. 1957 P. Frank Seven Days to Never vii. 200 They come to Havanna to live it up. They live about two years in two days. 1961 C. McCullers Clock without Hands xiii. 249 Nobody lives for always, but when I live I like to live it up. 1970 N. Armstrong et al. First on Moon ii. 39 Those who lived it up in the cocktail lounges that night were also emotionally moved. 2001 Max Power Dec. 192/2 You've chucked a sicky and you're living it up at home. < as lemmas |
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