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单词 living
释义
living1 adjectiveliving2 noun
livingliv‧ing1 /ˈlɪvɪŋ/ ●●○ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • A brother in Australia is Mary's only living relative.
  • one of the greatest living composers
  • Seamus Heaney is Ireland's greatest living poet.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • In return for your resignation, I am offering you the opportunity to study a dreadful disease in a living laboratory.
  • In the long-term the cost was a noticeable drop in our living standards at home.
  • It was the most dramatic and outspoken resignation speech in living memory.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatornot dead
not dead: still alive: · Are all your grandparents still alive?keep somebody alive (=to prevent someone from dying by giving them food, medicine etc): · Paramedics fought for an hour by the roadside to keep him alive.barely alive: · The police found them lying on the kitchen floor. Mr Wilkins was dead and his wife was barely alive.alive and well (=alive and not injured or ill): · The children were found alive and well after being missing for several days.see somebody alive: · She was the last person to see him alive.
still living now: · A brother in Australia is Mary's only living relative.greatest living poet/composer/painter etc: · Seamus Heaney is Ireland's greatest living poet.
formal something that is animate is alive and able to move, and is therefore not an object: animate objects: · At this age, children are still unable to distinguish between animate and inanimate objects.
the fact or state of being alive: · Do you believe in life after death?· Unfortunately it's usually the worst experiences that remind us how precious life is.fight/struggle for life: · She sat beside the hospital bed, holding his hand as he struggled for life.cling to life (=to struggle to stay alive): · An 18-year-old San José man clung to life late Wednesday after being shot in the head during a robbery.
something that is alive
a human, animal, plant, or anything that is alive: · An ocean is full of living things.· The tree, at 368 feet, is considered the world's tallest living thing.· Ecology is the study of how living things relate to their environment.
a living thing or one type of living thing - used in scientific or technical contexts: · Hobart is convinced that there are life forms on other planets.· Some scientists estimate that at least one third of the life forms that exist in deep oceans have not yet been discovered.· strange life forms in the Galapagos Islands
a living thing, especially an extremely small one - used in scientific and technical contexts: · Food poisoning is caused by a bacterial organism.living organism: · Genetic engineers manipulate living organisms such as cells or bacteria to create products which fight disease.
any living things, for example people, animals, plants, or all of these things together: · Oxygen is necessary to sustain life on Earth.· The new evidence seemed to indicate that life existed on Mars billions of years ago.animal/plant life (=all the animals or plants in a place): · Many species of plant life continue to be eradicated in South American rain forests.
animals and plants growing in natural conditions: · The Sea of Cortez is rich with wildlife.· The organization was set up to protect wildlife across Europe.
a long time
· It's good to see you again, Ben -- it's been a really long time.(for) a long time · He's lived here a long time.· The house has been empty for a long time.in a long time · I haven't heard from Chuck in a long time.· It's about the worst cold I've had in a long time.a long time ago · We met in August 1947, a long time ago.· I've been to California, but it was a very long time ago.a very long time/a long, long time · We've been friends for a very long time.· A long, long time ago, a king had three daughters.it's a long time since · It's a long time since I heard from Clive.take (somebody) a long time (to do something) · It's a big file, so it'll take a long time to print out.· It's taking you a long time to finish that assignment, isn't it?last a long time · That's a big notepad you have there, it should last a long time.
a fairly long time: for a while: · How's Lynne? I haven't seen her for a while.· So you guys were in Brazil for a while, huh?in a while: · I haven't worn that jacket in a while.after a while: · After a while, I realised he was serious.a while ago/back: · He fought for the title a while ago.· 'Is that a photo of him?' 'Yeah, that was taken a while back - his hair's longer now.' it's (been) a while since: · It's been a while since I read the book, and I can't remember much about it, to be honest.quite a while (=a long time): · He's been going out with her quite a while now, hasn't he?a long while: · I haven't played chess in a really long while.a little while: · Can I hold her for a little while?· A little while later, Rick returned with the drinks.take (somebody) a while: · It took me a while before I could understand him.· Your leg will take a while to get better, Mary.
a long time, or for a long time: · Have you been waiting long?· I won't be long.· It has long been recognized that a high fat diet can cause heart problems.long before/after: · Long after the war, the wreckage of his plane was discovered.· They ran out of things to talk about long before they arrived.· 75 percent of the battered women in our survey stayed with their husbands long after most people would have left. so long: · They've been together so long, I can't figure out why they don't get married.long ago: · I guess it didn't happen very long ago.take (somebody) so long: · I don't visit very often because it takes so long to get over there.· I'm sorry this is taking so long.
for a long time: · Have you been working here for long?· I hope his speech doesn't go on for long.· He'll have to stay in hospital, but not for long.for very long: · I haven't known them for very long.
many hours, months, or years, and a lot longer than you expected: · It was years before we found out the truth.· Sorry I'm late. Had to wait hours for a bus.· Justin spends hours and hours just playing this one game.for hours/months/years etc: · I must get the car serviced -- I've been putting it off for months.· Henry seemed to be on the phone for hours last night.months/years/hours etc ago: · I bought this pen years ago. Two pounds it cost me!· Rob went out hours ago, and he's not back yet.be weeks/months/hours etc since: · It's been years since I was there, the place must have changed.
for the whole of one day, the whole of one week etc: · It's been snowing almost all day long.· I've been thinking about you all night long.
especially British, spoken a very long time: (for) ages: · I've had that jar of coffee ages, you'd better throw it out.· Derek's been telling her for ages to get another job.it's ages since: · It's ages since we played this game - I'd forgotten how good you are.· It seems like ages since we saw Ron and Eileen. ages ago (=a long time ago): · "When did you sell the car?" "Ages ago!"· I emailed you ages ago -- hasn't it arrived? wait/spend ages: · I spent ages in town trying to find something to wear for the wedding.· We had to wait ages till the doctor could see us.ages and ages (=use this to emphasize how long something takes or lasts): · Oh come on, we haven't had chips for ages and ages.
spoken a very long time, or too long: · Let me see the map, or we'll be driving round here forever.· God's love endures forever.go on forever: · Well, I don't suppose the police will let the situation go on forever!· We had a game of Scrabble that seemed to go on forever.last forever: · You go into marriage thinking it's going to last forever.· These wool blankets pretty much last forever, don't they?forever and a day (=use this to emphasize that something continues for a very long time): · I'm staying here. If I go with you, it'll take forever and a day.
American spoken if you wait, walk, stand etc for the longest time , you do it for a very long time: · We sat in the bar drinking for the longest time.· For the longest time, we didn't even realize he was gone.
British informal a long time, used especially to say that something happened a very long time ago: for donkey's years: · She worked in the shop for donkey's years, although the pay was awful.donkey's years ago: · We used to play golf together, but that was donkey's years ago.donkey's years since: · It's donkey's years since I went to the movies.
for as long as people who are still alive can remember: · It was the hottest summer in living memory.· For the first time in living memory, old Jack had left the island.within living memory: · The site had only flooded once within living memory.
something that proves something is true
information or facts that prove that something is true: · He was the only person in the room when the money disappeared - what more proof do you want?· The police knew she was guilty, but they had no proof.proof of: · You can't drink in bars without some proof of your age.proof (that): · There is no proof that he did it.conclusive proof (=something that definitely proves something is true): · It was alleged that he was stealing money from the till, but we never had any conclusive proof.
information that helps to prove whether something is true or not: · The police did not have enough evidence to charge anybody with the murder.evidence that: · There is some evidence that a small amount of alcohol is good for you.evidence of/for: · evidence of life on other planetsmedical/scientific/forensic etc evidence: · There is no scientific evidence to support this theory.evidence to suggest/indicate/show etc something: · There is strong evidence to suggest that the Great Barrier Reef will have disappeared in 20 years time.not a shred of evidence (=no evidence at all): · There is not a shred of evidence to support such a theory.
official documents that are used to prove that a claim or statement is true or correct: · Can you produce documentation to support your claim?· As there is no formal documentation of your business partnership, it has no legal status.
a person, group, or place that proves that something is true or possible: living proof of: · The team is living proof of the old saying that it's not whom you play that counts, but when you play them.· We know that English and French speakers can live together in Canada - Montreal is living proof of that.living proof that: · Jordan is living proof that you don't have to conform to the music industry's standards in order to be accepted.
a way of finding out whether something is as good as people say it is, whether it works, or when it is true: · The acid test of a good leader is the extent to which they select a style to suit the circumstances.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 The sun affects all living things (=people, animals, and plants).
 a living language (=one that people still use)
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=the main room in a house, where people relax)· The main living area was on the second floor.
 a family living on the breadline
· The bedroom carpet was cream.
· Every living cell has a nucleus.
· Living conditions in the camp were dreadful.
(=the amount you need to pay for food, clothes etc)· People are complaining about the rising cost of living.
· The early Greeks believed that plants were living creatures that felt pain and pleasure.
 I am used to living dangerously (=doing things that involve risks).
 He’s 42 and still living in digs.
(also earn your living) (=earn the money you need to live)· She started to earn a living by selling her jewellery on a market stall.
(=money that you spend on rent, food, and things such as electricity, gas etc)· She receives £80 a week, from which she must pay for all her living expenses.
 Ed believes in living life to the full.
 a magazine about gracious living
 These past few days have been a living hell.
 I’m just trying to earn an honest living.
 She wasn’t used to living in the lap of luxury.
 She hopes to make a living (=earn the money she needs to live) from writing children’s books.
(=something extremely bad that happens in your life)· Being told I had cancer was a waking nightmare.
 All living organisms have to adapt to changes in environmental conditions.
(=think only about the past)· You’ve got to stop living in the past.
(=someone whose existence or experience proves something)· She is living proof that stress need not necessarily be ageing.
 The top floor provided living quarters for the kitchen staff.
· As far as she knew, she had no living relatives.
(=scare someone very much) The alarm scared the hell out of me.
(=no one) I promise I won’t tell a soul.
(also standard of living) (=the level of comfort and the amount of money people have)· Living standards at all income levels improved over that period.
 a nation with a high standard of living
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
· We therefore became aberrant policemen simply because what we were now living was not programmed by previous organizational knowledge and habit.· Two other tame birds on the same farm have already produced chicks which are now living in this barn.· The population in the north and east are now living in terrible conditions.· The pulse was dragging him in, into that horrid rhythm, now dead, now living.· But yesterday Teesside Crown Court was told that the pair were now living together as a family with their daughter.· Does the Minister also accept that far too many people in such communities are now living in fear of violent crime?
· All these mammalian orders stem from small insectivorous animals that inhabited the forests while the dinosaurs were still living.· He was certainly one of the only three still living.· And he's still living in the World.· The Quigleys were still living with us.· Because Hanns was still living and working in Johannesburg, their collaboration had to be conducted largely by correspondence.· Others, still living but insane, would be selected and flown up for further tests.· Unless - unless at that time he was still living.· I was still living with my parents, I didn't seem to be able to get away.
NOUN
· The only possible scope for early development is in association with its agricultural use, for example living accommodation for farm workers or owner-occupiers.· The Census includes questions about living accommodation.· Each apartment has basic, simple furnishings and a two-ring stove, living accommodation, shower room, and patio or terrace.· They insisted upon coming out to Reine to inspect my living accommodation, and the person with whom I shared it.· I hoped the simplicity of our living accommodation was not going to be a horrible disappointment to him.· It is an ideal centre, with a synthetic track and weight-training facilities very close to the living accommodation.· These will be sold or leased to trainers with living accommodation.· The fortifications were slowly curtailed, and the living accommodation became more spacious and comfortable.
· As fewer homes today have a separate dining room, this month we're suggesting ways of linking dining and living areas.· Fabrics have been used on the walls in all the living areas.· She cradled the mug in her hands and looked around the living area.· The kitchen Overlooking the back garden, this large room is divided into a kitchen and living area.· There is also a slight risk of the foam emitting fumes into the living areas, especially in timber-frame houses.· Separated from the main living area are a toilet, shower, and wash basin.· The two-seat sofa in blue Damask in the living area provides a link between kitchen and living areas.
· But I wish he'd civilize his living arrangements.· While hardly ideal, our living arrangements were suitably ascetic, and conducive to inner preparation.· Also information about vocational functioning and living arrangements was gathered by interview.· In doing so they will not only be dealing with grief and loss, but also rethinking their own daily living arrangements.· Among the refugee communities, new forms of collective living arrangements have been organized.· Separate living arrangements for the couple are under negotiation, according to a newspaper report.
· Every living cell and every atom has a nucleus.· The process of energy production in living cells is an example.· Some meteorites betray traces of proteinoid globules, the precursors of living cells.· Biophysics is certainly able to cast significant light on processes occurring within living cells.· Every living cell, even a single bacterial cell, can be thought of as a gigantic chemical factory.· Indeed, both gamma rays and X-rays can be extremely damaging to living cells.· The main storage medium inside willow seeds, ants and all other living cells is not electronic but chemical.· The tubules exude fluid when cut and contain living cells, as well as nerves.
· Once again, however, there is a living creature that has a solution.· The positive forms of living creatures express the internal pressure of their circulatory systems.· The sensory and motor indriyas are an integral part of the internal mind configuration of all living creatures.· And even though the little fellow stood stock still, his shadow heaved and twisted as some living creature writhing in unimaginable torment.· Whether or not a particular form of radiation has any effect on a living creature depends upon three factors.· This exercise depends on only one clue: you know that the clue word is some living creature.· The same, of course, applies to all interactions between living creatures, including human to human.· That all living creatures possess a capacity to learn is apparent from the way they find their way around an environment.
· If the kitchen had had a serving hatch, I could have scared the living daylights out of them.· He is capable of rages near to those on-screen moments when he can scare the living daylights out of a cinema audience.· There is only one way to attack: to try and run the living daylights out of the opposition.
· Life without hope is a living death.· But the hard labour for criminals which replaced judicial execution was so appalling that it was in effect a living death.· In anorexia nervosa, which becomes a living death, the same connections are prevalent, together with the same confusing implications.· Jeeta's life would be living death and there was nowhere she could escape to.· A living death, it had seemed to him and Jim, but maybe it hadn't been so bad.· And you and I will both leave this house, this narrow stone hell, this house of living death.· It's bloody living death, living boredom.· If you have opted for non-action, then you have opted for a living death.
· They borrowed more money for living expenses, then the second mortgage of £16,000 from a company call Dorend.· At present the county council pays his tuition fees and we pay his living expenses, which we can continue.· But that money's for his work ... not for living expenses.· Then there is an estimate of how much was required or expended for his own personal and living expenses.· So after living expenses and charity there's not a lot left over.
· It is as if the war, crisis, living hell or chaotic backwater can never be known and will never end.· It's just a living hell.· Serving in the Danuese battalions was a living hell.· Tony Revell says it's living hell to work with, and I believe him.· The brave heroes returned to an epidemic of influenza which all but carried off those who had survived a living hell.
· Then you start to think there's something crazy about living life only to lose it.· But today is for living life to the full.· It's just another struggle for air, for living life.
· It has, after all, been the worst first year of any parliament in living memory.· For the village it was the most exciting news in living memory.· Within the living memory of the older inhabitants of Dornie, there have been radical changes affecting both these waterways.· This dinner they planned must capture the living memory of every lucky guest.· The country is in the depths of a recession, made worse by the worst drought in living memory.· Within living memory, like mine for instance, it was possible to dial numbers beginning D.O.U ....· It was the most dramatic and outspoken resignation speech in living memory.· Within living memory there have been cathedral organists who have taught their skills to articled pupils.
· Genome: the genetic complement of a living organism.· Such a condition also makes living organisms highly sensitive to their environment, reflecting the characteristics of mind and consciousness themselves.· These have made it possible for scientists to manipulate more precisely the genetic make-up of living organisms.· In this respect they share a property of living organisms.· In common with Descartes, he visualized the universe in terms of clockwork rather than as a living organism.· Further chemical reactions led to living organisms.· It provides a good training for any biologist because it looks at living organisms from many different viewpoints.· You will investigate the features of living organisms.
· And the living proof of that was Emily.· He is living proof that if the famine doesn't get you, the bullets will.· She is also living proof that stress and hard work need not necessarily be ageing.· His family are for him living proof of them.· Mr. Atkins My hon. Friend is living proof of his own contention.· He is living proof that an individual congressman with energy and knowledge can turn himself into a foreign-policy entrepreneur.· It was for Lesley Bale to be the living proof that there was a way through.
· Designer blasts from the past carefully chosen to look nice in a west London living room.· Pausing outside his living room door, he switched on the hall light and crouched down on his knees.· Do not throw rubbish on to an open fire in the living room.· Does your living room face north or south?· In panic she stumbled backwards, twisted round and tried to run into the living room.· All living rooms need a mixture of light: background lighting; local light for working by; and decorative accent lighting.· He currently works from his studio and workroom built in a large living room at home in Bethnal Green, East London.· Downstairs she stepped past two sleeping bodies in the living room and closed the front door quietly behind her.
· You mustn't tell a living soul what you just told me.· Here they re-live the life of a pioneer in the wilderness, when the nearest living soul was 20 miles away.· And that business about her obsession with him; she had never mentioned that to a living soul.· No living soul appears in this desert of desolation, encompassed by appalling silence.· Holly here's the only living soul I told.
· Second, it may need to make itself distinct from other species with which it shares its living space.· Their works tended to be small-scale, mostly because they worked in cramped living spaces with scarce materials.· The living space is excellent with plenty of height and room inside.· Our clothes, living space and total environment all separated us from the outer world.· It was believed that this area offered more opportunities for conversion into convenient living space.· The new maisonettes have turned out to be the most unusual and attractive living spaces.· An island unit provides worksurface space and divides the cooking area from the living space.· Tokyo residents have to commute huge distances because building restrictions limit the living space available in the capital.
· Immediate pressure on peasant living standards was relieved by the abolition of redemption dues and restraint of the tax burden.· Given the halving of living standards over the past year, this was an even more remarkable result.· Since the war, living standards have always risen faster under Conservative Governments than under Labour.· As a result, agricultural productivity and peasant living standards remained stagnant.· Inflation creates strife, as different groups in society struggle to restore their living standards.· Families may become dependent for their living standards upon two incomes.· Some people in the Labour party believe that high house prices mean high living standards and affluence.· Rising living standards for those in work have also enabled them to buy more consumer goods.
· The first living things evolved in its absence, and many organisms even today still respire without its aid.· For a few days, the beech tree is the most wonderful living thing in the garden.· We, and all other living things, are adapted to the atmosphere as it now is.· Carbon, however, does not perform a solo turn in the creation of living things.· Furthermore each living thing, plant and animal reacts and competes with other members of its species.· And so also with living things other than man.· In the sea, living things fight to keep water out.· They were dangerous because they, these enormous living things, had gained the strength to kill people.
· The first living things evolved in its absence, and many organisms even today still respire without its aid.· The influence of water upon living things does not end here.· All these movements affect living things in many different ways.· This amplification becomes possible once a system is controlled, and is most dramatic in living things.· Carbon, however, does not perform a solo turn in the creation of living things.· And so also with living things other than man.· In the sea, living things fight to keep water out.· Then again, the internal chemistry of living things is restless.
· Does the example implicitly condone overtime working as a means by which a living wage is earned?· They had no solution to the possibility that even they might sometimes fail to find permanent employment at a living wage.
· Many naturalists were unwilling to see the living world as the product of such a haphazard process.· Thus imagine that the living world was really as imagined in Figure 1.· MacLeay's view of natural relationships presupposed that the living world is constructed according to a rational plan.· The progression from the molecule to the cell is also the leap from the non-living to the living world.· This would reduce the ability of the living world to take up carbon dioxide.· The living world is divided, fundamentally, into bacteria versus the rest.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • one of the living legends of rhythm and blues
  • A living legend passed away when Ferdinando Keast died in 1891, aged 87.
  • Blue Mooney, a living legend in his own time.
  • Many of parking's living legends were there.
  • I'm living proof that people can make their dreams come true.
  • Jordan is living proof that you don't have to conform to the music industry's standards in order to be accepted.
  • The team is living proof of the old saying that it's not whom you play that counts, but when you play them.
  • We know that English and French speakers can live together in Canada - Montreal is living proof of that.
  • And the living proof of that was Emily.
  • He is living proof that if the famine doesn't get you, the bullets will.
  • I will remember them as living proof that you can have too much of a good thing.
  • I would be-come the living proof of the strength of her womanhood.
  • Indeed, she may well be living proof of it.
  • She is living proof that a Democrat can be an honorable attorney general in a scandal-prone Democratic administration.
  • She is also living proof that stress and hard work need not necessarily be ageing.
  • After that sweltering afternoon in May, we went through a period of epic heat, the hottest summer in living memory.
  • For the first time in living memory a presidential candidate claimed the White House before his rival had conceded the race.
  • For the village it was the most exciting news in living memory.
  • It has doubled within living memory.
  • It has, after all, been the worst first year of any parliament in living memory.
  • Still, for a prime minister who enjoyed the longest honeymoon in living memory, these are unhappy days.
  • The country is in the depths of a recession, made worse by the worst drought in living memory.
  • They are among hundreds of northeastern North Dakota farmers with crops damaged by the worst rain and rural flooding in living memory.
  • But the hard labour for criminals which replaced judicial execution was so appalling that it was in effect a living death.
  • If you have opted for non-action, then you have opted for a living death.
  • In anorexia nervosa, which becomes a living death, the same connections are prevalent, together with the same confusing implications.
  • Life without hope is a living death.
  • My life has been a living hell since the attack.
  • The last two and a half weeks have been a living hell.
  • By lunchtime, everyone would know, and they would make her life a living hell after that.
  • If life in the South was corrupt and callous, in the North it was a living hell.
  • It's just a living hell.
  • Serving in the Danuese battalions was a living hell.
  • That first call had been the start of a campaign of intimidation that had transformed Polly's life into a living hell.
  • The brave heroes returned to an epidemic of influenza which all but carried off those who had survived a living hell.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► the cost of living► scare/frighten the (living) daylights out of somebody► beat/knock the (living) daylights out of somebody
  • By the time this Clinton-Dole thing is over, you and I could be living on Easy Street.
  • Cliff's family worked in the cotton fields to eke out a meager living.
  • Again, the choice was between following the work to the factory towns or eking out an existence by labouring.
  • Finally came the bookshop where dear Mr Sneddles tried to eke out a living.
  • I was tired of eking out an existence near poverty level on my meager assistantship.
  • Most of them eke out a living as subsistence farmers.
  • Most people still live in the hinterlands of the inhabited islands eking out a living, but poverty abounds.
  • She continued to eke out a living based on the fading memories of her famous plunge.
  • The elderly eke out a living on pensions averaging from $ 50 to $ 75 monthly.
  • The river banks were frequently lined with curious onlookers who struggle to eke out an existence in this harsh environment.
► the elephant in the (living) room
  • To be in the ranks of the Foodie Fascists is, quite frankly, the living end.
► excuse me (for living)!► be living in a fool’s paradise
  • As in Shakespeare, there are scenes of high life and scenes of low life.
  • But other authorities also face recruiting difficulties, which suggests that the problem extends beyond high living costs and poor pay.
  • But this is one weekend, he thought, when there will be high living and no thinking.
  • He told the villa's owner Count Robert de Beaumont how much he loved the sun-soaked Costa high life.
  • He was a lively and stylish writer, and contributed a column to the Jerusalem Post on high life and low living.
  • His dream had finally run out in an Arabian nightmare of high living and questionable favours.
  • It looked like the high life, but it was life on borrowed time.
  • All she had was the image of a woman lying on the ground and people desperate to help her.
  • And just lagging it slightly was the image of the posed dancer.
  • But we both agreed the little mite was the spitting image of the man.
  • It was the image of returning once again to her empty maisonette in Ealing.
  • My favorite is the image of an aproned cook in the rear of the open kitchen.
  • Pressing upon the rest of us is the image of all those dormant scars in the crust potentially surging to life.
  • This is the image of a successful couple.
  • Throughout the show's history, for instance, Cleese was the very image of pompous, impatient rectitude.
► in the land of the living► think that the world owes you a living► pardon me for breathing/living
  • As a replacement for the Bluebird, the Primera is on another planet.
  • People in the Antelope Valley worry that most people south of the mountains think that their valley is on another planet.
  • Do they feel women should remain in marriages because their jobs do not pay a living wage?
  • Does the example implicitly condone overtime working as a means by which a living wage is earned?
  • They had no solution to the possibility that even they might sometimes fail to find permanent employment at a living wage.
► think the world owes you a living
Word family
WORD FAMILYverbliveoutliverelivelivenupadjectivelivelivelylivingliveablenounlivelinesslivinglivelihoodadverblive
1alive now OPP  dead:  He’s one of the greatest living composers. The sun affects all living things (=people, animals, and plants). a living language (=one that people still use)2living proof if someone is living proof of a particular fact, they are a good example of how true it isliving proof (that) I’m living proof that you don’t need a college degree to be successful.living of the living proof of government economic incompetence3in/within living memory during the time that anyone can remember:  It was the worst storm in living memory.4a living death a life that is so unpleasant that it seems better to be dead5a living hell a very unpleasant situation that makes you suffer for a long time:  These past few days have been a living hell.6living legend someone who is famous for being extremely good at something, and who still does that activity:  His music has made him a living legend. → scare/frighten the (living) daylights out of somebody at daylight(3), → beat/knock the (living) daylights out of somebody/something at daylight(4)
living1 adjectiveliving2 noun
livingliving2 ●○○ noun Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • the harsh realities of city living
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But the movie character and the real-life teacher do share a mutual dream of earning their livings as composers of music.
  • Despite Zborowski's frantic efforts to sell his work, Modigliani's living was still very precarious.
  • The standard of living is another key measure which has its origins in the same source.
  • These inventories, therefore, give a sound idea of the standard of living of thousands of ordinary people.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorto earn enough money to pay for the things that you need
to earn enough money to pay for the things that you or your family need: earn/make a living by doing something: · As an engineer, you can earn a living anywhere in the world.· It's difficult to make a living as a writer.· Nordstrom earned his living by teaching violin.earn a good/decent living (=earn more than enough): · A programmer earns a pretty decent living.
to pay for the things that you or your family need out of the money that you earn, especially when you are the only person in the family who is earning money: · After his father died, Peter had to quit school and support the family.· Hank supported himself for years by doing construction work.· I have no idea how he's supporting himself.
to earn enough money to pay for your food and other needs, especially when someone has been supporting you until now: · It's time you got a job and started earning your keep.
doing something for a job, rather than for enjoyment
if someone does something for a living , they do it as a job in order to get money to live - use this especially about something that other people do only for fun: · She actually tastes wine for a living!· No one in the show acts or sings for a living.
also pro informal a professional musician, tennis player, photographer etc is one who plays music etc as their job and earns money from it: · Professional basketball players can earn huge sums of money.turn professional (=become a professional musician, player etc): · He was a keen amateur photographer for many years before he turned professional.
to continue to live a normal life even though you have very little money
· When I look at how much we spend on food, I wonder how unemployed people are able to survive.survive on £100 a week/a small income etc · It's really difficult to survive on £120 a week in London.· I don't know how they expect me to survive on my salary.
to have enough money to buy the things you need to live: · We don't have a lot of money to spend on luxuries, but we get by.get by on $5 a day/a small income etc: · When I was at college I used to be able to get by on $20 a week.
if someone lives on a particular amount of money, this is all the money that they have to buy everything that they need: · How much do you need to live on?· $35,000 a year sounds like a lot of money, but it's scarcely enough to live on in New York.
if it is difficult for you to make ends meet , it is difficult for you to pay for the things that you need in order to live: · Old people on pensions are finding it hard to make ends meet.· My mother had to work 12 hours a day in a factory just to make ends meet.
to have just enough money to pay your debts or to avoid closing your business: · I'm just a pensioner, trying to keep my head above water.· Schools throughout the county are struggling to keep their heads above water.
formal if someone subsists on a very small amount of money or a very small amount of food, this is all they have to live on: · They subsist on eggs and beans most of the time.subsist on a dollar a day/a small income etc: · The workers are expected to subsist on a dollar a day.
to get just enough food or money to live on by doing a particular kind of work: · She eked out a living by selling firewood.· Farmers eked out a primitive existence on the dry, stony land.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs
· She was able to make a living out of her talents as a cook.
(=to work at something as your job)· 'What does he do for a living?' 'I think he's a taxi driver.'
(=to barely earn enough money to live)· The farmers in these drought-stricken areas are barely able to scratch out a living.
adjectives
(=enough money)· Her husband makes a good living.
British English, a meager living American English (=not much money)· She earned a meagre living as a shop assistant.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=the main room in a house, where people relax)· The main living area was on the second floor.
 a family living on the breadline
· The bedroom carpet was cream.
· Every living cell has a nucleus.
· Living conditions in the camp were dreadful.
(=the amount you need to pay for food, clothes etc)· People are complaining about the rising cost of living.
· The early Greeks believed that plants were living creatures that felt pain and pleasure.
 I am used to living dangerously (=doing things that involve risks).
 He’s 42 and still living in digs.
(also earn your living) (=earn the money you need to live)· She started to earn a living by selling her jewellery on a market stall.
(=money that you spend on rent, food, and things such as electricity, gas etc)· She receives £80 a week, from which she must pay for all her living expenses.
 Ed believes in living life to the full.
 a magazine about gracious living
 These past few days have been a living hell.
 I’m just trying to earn an honest living.
 She wasn’t used to living in the lap of luxury.
 She hopes to make a living (=earn the money she needs to live) from writing children’s books.
(=something extremely bad that happens in your life)· Being told I had cancer was a waking nightmare.
 All living organisms have to adapt to changes in environmental conditions.
(=think only about the past)· You’ve got to stop living in the past.
(=someone whose existence or experience proves something)· She is living proof that stress need not necessarily be ageing.
 The top floor provided living quarters for the kitchen staff.
· As far as she knew, she had no living relatives.
(=scare someone very much) The alarm scared the hell out of me.
(=no one) I promise I won’t tell a soul.
(also standard of living) (=the level of comfort and the amount of money people have)· Living standards at all income levels improved over that period.
 a nation with a high standard of living
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB
· The dealers have got to earn their livings too.· But the movie character and the real-life teacher do share a mutual dream of earning their livings as composers of music.
· It shows how difficult it remains to make a cricket-related living in what is still the smallest populated Test country.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • Funeral needs are meant to address the needs of the living.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► the cost of living► scare/frighten the (living) daylights out of somebody► beat/knock the (living) daylights out of somebody
  • By the time this Clinton-Dole thing is over, you and I could be living on Easy Street.
  • Cliff's family worked in the cotton fields to eke out a meager living.
  • Again, the choice was between following the work to the factory towns or eking out an existence by labouring.
  • Finally came the bookshop where dear Mr Sneddles tried to eke out a living.
  • I was tired of eking out an existence near poverty level on my meager assistantship.
  • Most of them eke out a living as subsistence farmers.
  • Most people still live in the hinterlands of the inhabited islands eking out a living, but poverty abounds.
  • She continued to eke out a living based on the fading memories of her famous plunge.
  • The elderly eke out a living on pensions averaging from $ 50 to $ 75 monthly.
  • The river banks were frequently lined with curious onlookers who struggle to eke out an existence in this harsh environment.
► the elephant in the (living) room
  • To be in the ranks of the Foodie Fascists is, quite frankly, the living end.
► excuse me (for living)!► be living in a fool’s paradise
  • As in Shakespeare, there are scenes of high life and scenes of low life.
  • But other authorities also face recruiting difficulties, which suggests that the problem extends beyond high living costs and poor pay.
  • But this is one weekend, he thought, when there will be high living and no thinking.
  • He told the villa's owner Count Robert de Beaumont how much he loved the sun-soaked Costa high life.
  • He was a lively and stylish writer, and contributed a column to the Jerusalem Post on high life and low living.
  • His dream had finally run out in an Arabian nightmare of high living and questionable favours.
  • It looked like the high life, but it was life on borrowed time.
  • All she had was the image of a woman lying on the ground and people desperate to help her.
  • And just lagging it slightly was the image of the posed dancer.
  • But we both agreed the little mite was the spitting image of the man.
  • It was the image of returning once again to her empty maisonette in Ealing.
  • My favorite is the image of an aproned cook in the rear of the open kitchen.
  • Pressing upon the rest of us is the image of all those dormant scars in the crust potentially surging to life.
  • This is the image of a successful couple.
  • Throughout the show's history, for instance, Cleese was the very image of pompous, impatient rectitude.
► in the land of the living► think that the world owes you a living► pardon me for breathing/living
  • As a replacement for the Bluebird, the Primera is on another planet.
  • People in the Antelope Valley worry that most people south of the mountains think that their valley is on another planet.
  • Do they feel women should remain in marriages because their jobs do not pay a living wage?
  • Does the example implicitly condone overtime working as a means by which a living wage is earned?
  • They had no solution to the possibility that even they might sometimes fail to find permanent employment at a living wage.
► think the world owes you a living
Word family
WORD FAMILYverbliveoutliverelivelivenupadjectivelivelivelylivingliveablenounlivelinesslivinglivelihoodadverblive
1[countable usually singular] the way that you earn money or the money that you earn:  It’s not a great job, but it’s a living. What do you do for a living? (=what do you do as a job?)earn/make a living It’s hard to make a decent living as a musician.scrape/scratch a living (=get just enough to eat or live)2the living all the people who are alive as opposed to dead people OPP  the dead3[uncountable] the way in which someone lives their life:  the stresses of city living4[countable] the position or income of a parish priest → cost of living, standard of living, → in the land of the living at land1(7)COLLOCATIONSverbsearn/make a living· She was able to make a living out of her talents as a cook.do something for a living (=to work at something as your job)· 'What does he do for a living?' 'I think he's a taxi driver.'scrape out/scratch out/eke out a living (=to barely earn enough money to live)· The farmers in these drought-stricken areas are barely able to scratch out a living.adjectivesa good/decent living (=enough money)· Her husband makes a good living.a meagre living British English, a meager living American English (=not much money)· She earned a meagre living as a shop assistant.
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