释义 |
live with1Share a home and have a sexual relationship with (someone to whom one is not married): Fran was now living with a man fourteen years older than her...- Barry knew of the relationship but continued to live with Amanda in the hope that the affair would end.
- He married four times, and at one stage was living with one woman in London and another in the country, at weekends.
- He said that he lived with his partner and her children, one of whom is disabled, and they treat him as their father.
2Accept or tolerate (something unpleasant): our marriage was a failure—you have to learn to live with that fact...- It is a problem he has learned to live with and rugby and the exercise involved has helped him cope.
- In the years since, Anne-Marie and her family have learned to live with epilepsy.
- The people of Fulford need to accept that their properties are near a road and learn to live with the traffic.
See parent entry: live |