单词 | alive |
释义 | alive 1. a. < so good to be alive > < a large number were still alive after the explosion > — usually used predicatively or postpositively b. < he was the proudest boy alive > < “Man alive!” he said. “You don't really mean that” > < sakes alive > 2. a. < small farms kept alive by judicious husbanding of the lake waters — American Guide Series: California > < keep alive the conception of morals he preached — Havelock Ellis > b. < neither of these works is much alive today — Times Literary Supplement > c. bowls 3. a. < becoming alive to the folly of what he had been doing — Samuel Butler > < consciousness of this danger … made her … alive to the risks of an undesirable marriage — John Galsworthy > b. < dreadfully alive to nervous terrors — Charles Lamb > < veterans are as fully alive to the romance … of newspaper work as any cub — Stanley Walker > 4. a. < not sufficiently alive to feel the tang of sense nor yet to be moved by thought — John Dewey > < the alive promise of spring — H.D.Skidmore > b. < making the commonplaces of American culture … come alive through his plain words — Babette Deutsch > 5. < the sea was alive with large whales — Herman Melville > < this decade was alive with controversy and intellectual combat — American Guide Series: Ind. > 6. a. b. < despite the hurricane the phone was still alive > 7. Synonyms: see aware |
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