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单词 to come alive
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to come alive
P2. to come alive: to become active or animated, esp. from an inert or lifeless state; to show signs of life or vitality. Chiefly figurative and in figurative contexts. Cf. to come to life at life n. Phrases 12b(a).
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1691 Art of Catechising xi. 67 The Bodies of the Dead..shall be gathered together again; all the scattered dust packed together, and in an instant be revived and come alive.
1735 London Evening Post 10 Apr. Even the dead Palatine of Kiow is now come alive again, and has wrote to King Augustus, that he hoped to be at Warsaw in a very few Days.
1854 Chambers's Jrnl. 1 124 She looked like a Greek statue that had come alive, and by mere contact classicised its modern dress.
1946 Motorboating June 84/1 The crew came alive that minute, everyone sensing that a race was on.
1961 C. Beaton Diary Aug. in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xxiii. 343 The Villa Maser, brightly lit in the motionless night, came alive as the guests arrived.
1994 V. M. Jagla Teachers' Everyday Use of Imagination & Intuition vii. 137 When we make lessons ‘come alive’.., by..role-playing, or other imaginative methods, we are creating excitement in the classroom.
2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 10 Sept. b12/5 The team seemed to come alive last Thursday in a game at Colorado.
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