| 单词 | to live the high life |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto live the high life 2. The way of life of or associated with the upper classes or wealthy people; an extravagant or luxurious lifestyle. Now chiefly in to live the high life.In quot. ?a1518: high status or rank. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] > aristocratic life high life?a1518 aristocraticism1860 posh1915 vie de château1924 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] higheOE high life?a1518 towna1616 world1618 grand monde1673 society1693 beau monde1712 fine world1740 monde1765 tonc1770 high society1782 fashion1807 all the world1808 society1840 smart set1851 swelldom1854 Fifth Avenue1858 fashionabledom1859 haut monde1864 the big cheesea1910 higlif1911 haute Bohème1925 café society1937 jet set1949 beautiful people1950 ?a1518 H. Watson Ualentyne & Orson (1555) sig. Bb.ivv I shall gyue you to husbande the puyssaunt kinge Tromparte by the whiche you maye be at all seasons of hyghelyfe and rychely honoured. 1727 D. Defoe Protestant Monastery 6 He had..always liv'd in what we call high Life. 1759 J. Townley (title) High life below stairs. 1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda I. ix. 277 He had merely considered her ladyship as an object of amusement, and an introduction to high life. 1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford viii. 140 One would not have Lady Glenmire think we were quite ignorant of the etiquettes of high life in Cranford. 1892 C. M. Yonge That Stick I. x. 106 Utterly inexperienced as she was, even in domestic, not to say high life. 1912 E. C. Mayne Byron I. xi. 202 The gay little man laid down as an axiom that ‘in high life one meets the best society’. 1917 Jrnl. Amer. Bankers Assoc. Mar. 732/1 A certain youth received $2,000 as his share of his uncle's estate, quit work and lived the high life for a short time. 1941 L. P. Smith Let. 19 Sept. in R. Gathorne-Hardy Recoll. L. P. Smith (1949) 193 Is low life becoming more interesting, or is it as hollow as the High Life I used to frequent? 2009 L. Banker & W. Mullins Britannia in Brief iii. 83 Working-class girls who are suddenly rolling in money and shamelessly living the high life. < as lemmas |
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