| 单词 | living |
| 释义 | living (once / 36 pages) 1adjn 2n 3adj 4adj Someone who's living is alive. You might talk about your living grandparents to distinguish them from the ones who died before you were born. When you talk about animals and people, you can call them living beings. and you can also use this adjective to mean "used" or "active," like a living language that continues to be spoken. As a noun, living means the state of being alive or "enough money to live." You might say, for example, that you write poetry for fun, but you work cleaning hotel rooms to earn a living. WORD FAMILYliving: livings, non-living, nonliving+/livable: livably/live: livable, liveable, lived, liveness, living, livingly, relive, unlive/relive: relived, relives, reliving/unlive: unlivable, unliveable, unlived, unliving USAGE EXAMPLESWhile we need to move around a bit to complete the tasks of daily living, in modern life we tend not to move very much. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Mr. Shapira reprimanded the prime minister again that same year, saying living and hospitality expenses for both his official residence and private home were exorbitant. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) He is among the last living physicists who helped usher in the nuclear age. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1adj pertaining to living persons within living memory 2adj still in existence the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil Syn surviving extant still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost 3adj still in active use a living language Syn extant still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost 4adj true to life; lifelike the living image of her mother Syn realistic aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are 5n the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities Syn|Hyper life experience the content of direct observation or participation in an event 6n people who are still living save your pity for the living Ant|Hyper dead people who are no longer living people (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively 7n the condition of living or the state of being alive 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper aliveness, animation, life eternal life, life eternal life without beginning or end skina person's skin regarded as their life endurance, survivala state of surviving; remaining alive subsistencea means of surviving being, beingness, existence the state or fact of existing n the financial means whereby one lives 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper bread and butter, keep, livelihood, support, sustenance amenities, comforts, conveniences, creature comforts things that make you comfortable and at ease maintenancemeans of maintenance of a family or group meal ticketa source of income or livelihood subsistenceminimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting resource available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed adj (informal) absolute 4she is a living doll scared the living daylights out of them beat the living hell out of him Syn absolute perfect or complete or pure adj (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried carved into the living stone Syn live exerting force or containing energy |
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