英语词汇“to live within one's means”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 beyond one's means: to spend more than one can afford. to live within one's means: to keep one's expenditure within what one can afford.

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1662 Duchess of Newcastle Several Wits i. vi, in Playes Written 82 Whether they live beyond their means, or keep within their compasse.

1799 W. Godwin St. Leon I. v. 136 I was living beyond the means I had to discharge my expences.

1848 A. Brontë Tenant of Wildfell Hall II. vii. 132 By thus living beyond her legitimate means and lavishing so much on their brother, she renders them portionless.

1881 H. James Portrait of Lady I. xviii. 239 After that [extravagance] she would come to her senses, remember that she had still a lifetime before her, and live within her means.

1894 W. H. Wilkins & H. Vivian Green Bay Tree I. 11 It was very wrong for a man to live beyond his means.

1977 E. Johnson Charles Dickens i. 21 Although he had received a final salary increase in 1820 to £350 a year, he was again living beyond his means.

1999 Independent 18 Nov. ii. 4/2 Even more perplexing to me is this compulsion that intelligent people..feel to impress wealthy bean-brains. As if they cannot be themselves, live within their means, and get the respect that they surely deserve.

单词	to live within one's means
释义	> as lemmas to live within one's means b. to live beyond one's means: to spend more than one can afford. to live within one's means: to keep one's expenditure within what one can afford. ΚΠ 1662 Duchess of Newcastle Several Wits i. vi, in Playes Written 82 Whether they live beyond their means, or keep within their compasse. 1799 W. Godwin St. Leon I. v. 136 I was living beyond the means I had to discharge my expences. 1848 A. Brontë Tenant of Wildfell Hall II. vii. 132 By thus living beyond her legitimate means and lavishing so much on their brother, she renders them portionless. 1881 H. James Portrait of Lady I. xviii. 239 After that [extravagance] she would come to her senses, remember that she had still a lifetime before her, and live within her means. 1894 W. H. Wilkins & H. Vivian Green Bay Tree I. 11 It was very wrong for a man to live beyond his means. 1977 E. Johnson Charles Dickens i. 21 Although he had received a final salary increase in 1820 to £350 a year, he was again living beyond his means. 1999 Independent 18 Nov. ii. 4/2 Even more perplexing to me is this compulsion that intelligent people..feel to impress wealthy bean-brains. As if they cannot be themselves, live within their means, and get the respect that they surely deserve. extracted from meann.³ < as lemmas
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