| 单词 | low-living |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslow-living low-living adj. and n. (a) adj. that lives humbly or without luxury; (now usually) that lives licentiously or immorally; (b) n. the action or fact of living in this way. ΚΠ c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xii. l. 265 (MED) To lowe lybbyng men þe larke is resembled. 1725 R. Drew Serm. Prison of Ludgate 22 His Brain had been distempered with high Feeding, but this low Living was Physick to him. 1805 A. A. Opie Adeline Mowbray III. iii. 137 She should do all that now remained to be done for her security, by low living and good air. 1891 J. A. Hobson Probl. of Poverty iii. 61 Where work is slack and difficult to get, a very small addition of low-living foreigners will cause a perceptible fall in the entire wages of the neighbourhood. 1948 C. Stead Little Tea, Little Chat xxviii. 195 His cousin Upton, whom he considered a blackhearted, low-living scoundrel. 1990 J. Eberts & T. Ilott My Indecision is Final xxxvi. 364 Colin MacInnes, a high-born but low-living British writer of the 1950s and 1960s. 2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 16 Aug. b4/2 Between songs, Kiki describes her early history with an uncaring mother and abusive father..; the seesaw career of high and low living. < as lemmas |
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