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单词 live down
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live down

phrasal verb
If you are unable to live down a mistake, failure, or bad reputation, you are unable to make people forget about it.
Labour was also unable to live down its reputation as the party of high taxes. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
I thought I'd never live it down. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
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live down in British English

(lɪv)
verb
(tr, adverb)
to withstand the effects of (a crime, mistake, etc) by waiting until others forget or forgive it

live down in American English

to live in such a way as to wipe out the memory or shame of (some fault, misdeed, etc.)
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Examples of 'live down' in a sentence
live down

You don't think we'll have to come and live down here, will we?
Sue Welfare FALLEN WOMEN (2002)
She said happily to Darren, `Moira and John used to live down there.
Skelton, Alison Scott AN OLDER WOMAN
His first impression was of greyness: the capital was fighting to live down a sad and chequered inheritance.
Aldiss, Brian SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
They felt like sea creatures that live down where there's no light-- knife-toothed, blunt-headed, colorless.
Leeson, Robert GENIE ON THE LOOSE (1984)

Chinese translation of 'live down'

live down

vt

  1. [defeat, error, failure] 使人淡忘 (shǐ rén dànwàng)
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Nearby words of
live down

  • little else
  • little finger
  • live
  • live down
  • live for
  • live in
  • live off

All related terms of 'live down'

live with
( partner ) 与(與) ... 同居 yǔ ... tóngjū
live up to
( expectations ) 符合 fúhé
live up
▶ to live it up ( inf ) 狂欢(歡) kuánghuān
live together
同居 tóngjū
live through
( war, crisis etc ) 历(歷)经(經) lìjīng
live out
live on
( money ) 靠 ... 维(維)持生活 kào ... wéichí shēnghuó ⇒ I don't have enough money to live on. → 我的钱不够维持生活。 Wǒ de qián bù gòu wéichí shēnghuó.
live off
( money ) 靠 ... 生活 kào ... shēnghuó
live in
( student ) 住学(學)校公寓 zhù xuéxiào gōngyù
live for
( work, pleasure ) 为(為) ... 而生活 wèi ... ér shēnghuó
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