| 单词 | living |
| 释义 | liv·ing I. 1. a. < all living things by definition have irritability and response — Weston LaBarre > < swore by the living God that he spoke the truth > < the skin is a living tissue — Morris Fishbein > < and he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stopped — Num 16: 48 (Revised Standard Version) > b. < not in the memory of living men had such another opportunity offered > < the living orders of insects > c. < the past of mankind … abides as a living reality in our present — P.E.More > < educators who think of the liberal-arts tradition in a living and creative fashion — H.D.Gideonse > < a suffix that continues to form new compounds remains livingin the language > 2. a. < it was a land of high, rolling prairies, wide valleys, and sweet living water — F.B.Gipson > < drinking this champagne water is pure pleasure, so is breathing the living air — John Muir †1914 > < the happy living sunlight — Edith Sitwell > b. < then on the living coals red wine they pour — John Dryden > 3. < in places the track was hewn out of the living rock — Geographical Journal > 4. a. < visualized anatomy as a living subject — H.R.Viets > b. < no mere historical curiosity but a living and moving work of art — Edward Sackville-West > < seek through the flesh: you will not find the living likeness of the mind — D.C.Babcock > c. < a working library, a living library — Virginia Woolf > 5. < rug and wood paneling define the living area — Edgar Kaufmann > 6. < baffled in the effort to detect the living performance from the … record — R.D.Darrell > < there would be a renaissance of the living theater — Theatre Arts > 7. < history … scares the living daylights out of school kids — Nicholas County (W. Virginia) News Leader > < beat the living tar out of him > II. 1. < living in the same house became impossible > < the ascetic with a passion for living — H.S.Canby > 2. < the art of living is thus recognized as a subject which concerns everyone — Herbert Spencer > < the collegiate way of living — J.B.Conant > < utter impatience with totalitarian living — G.P.Musselman > < was conspicuous for loose living > 3. a. < we both earn our livings — Virginia Woolf > < bees, too, are here … getting a living among the blue flowers of the sea holly — Robert Lynd > b. archaic c. Britain < the diaries of clergymen in quiet country livings — Sydney (Australia) Bulletin > Synonyms: < to make a living selling books > < to take a living from the soil > livelihood often applies to the wages, salary, or income from which one lives or to the profession or craft whereby one earns his wages or salary < provided with a modest livelihood > < while the profession is of necessity a means of livelihood or of financial reward, the devoted service which it inspires is motivated by other considerations — R.M.MacIver > < stock raising is his livelihood > < education is a preparation for life, not merely for a livelihood, for living not for a living — George Sampson > subsistence suggests living with only the barest necessities < subsistence wages are the lowest needed to sustain life > < if he could raise enough corn and pork for subsistence, he cared for nothing more — American Guide Series: North Carolina > sustenance applies to whatever sustains life; it ranges from indicating food and other necessities for bare subsistence to more liberal provision < the purely sustenance type of farming in which the farmer merely supplies his own needs — Samuel Van Valkenburg and Ellsworth Huntington > < Irish parents who had come to this country in search of more sustenance than they could glean from the barren soil of Connemara — Russel Crouse > maintenance applies to a complex of necessities like food, lodging, clothing, and cleaning or to money sufficient to provide them < maintenance for his separated wife > < the hospital had advertised for a general resident doctor at $300 a month and maintenance — Greer Williams > < monthly allowances to parents for the maintenance, care, training, education, and advancement of the child — Current Biography > support may apply to means of maintenance or to the person who provides the means < his scanty wages are his parent's sole support > keep is a somewhat colloquial synonym for maintenance and is applicable to animals as well as persons < hired men could no longer be had for ten or fifteen dollars a month and keep — W.A.White > bread and bread and butter are synecdoches for living or sustenance < give us this day our daily bread — Mt 6: 11 (Revised Standard Version) > < earning one's bread and butter at the mill > |
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