动词用法(VERB USE)
1.居住
If someonelives in a particular place or with a particular person, their home is in that place or with that person.
e.g. She has lived here for 10 years...
她在这里住了10年了。
e.g. She always said I ought tolive alone...
她总说我应该一个人住。
2.生活;过活
If you say that someonelives in particular circumstances or that theylive a particular kind of life, you mean that they are in those circumstances or that they have that kind of life.
e.g. We lived quite grandly...
我们生活得非常快乐。
e.g. Compared to people living only a few generations ago, we have greater opportunities to have a good time...
比起上几辈人,我们有更多机会享受生活。
3.为…而生活
If you say that someonelives for a particular thing, you mean that it is the most important thing in their life.
e.g. He lived for his work.
他为工作而活。
4.活;生存
Tolive means to be alive. If someonelives to a particular age, they stay alive until they are that age.
e.g. He's got a terrible disease and will notlive long...
他已身患重疾,时日无多。
e.g. A perennial is a plant that lives indefinitely...
多年生植物是指能存活很多年的植物。
5.靠…过活;以…为生
If peoplelive by doing a particular activity, they get the money, food, or clothing they need by doing that activity.
e.g. ...the last indigenous people tolive by hunting...
最后一个狩猎为生的土著民族
e.g. These crimes were committed largely by professional criminals who lived by crime.
这些罪案大都是由以犯罪为生的职业罪犯制造的。
6.恪守(规则、信念、理想等)
If youlive by a particular rule, belief, or ideal, you behave in the way in which it says you should behave.
e.g. Theylive by the principle that we are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we want from it.
他们恪守着这样的原则:我们来到世上是要为生活做贡献,而不是从中索取。
7.留存;铭记;流传下去
If a person or occasionlives in someone's mind or in history, they are remembered for a long time.
live的近义词
e.g. The memory of that willlive with me for many years to come...
那个记忆将会伴随我多年。
e.g. His name willlive in history as one of the greatest bowlers of all time...
他将会作为史上最伟大的板球投手之一而留名青史。
8. see also: living
9.热衷于…;狂热爱好…
If you say that someonelives and breathes a particular subject or activity, you are emphasizing that they are extremely enthusiastic about it.
live在线翻译
e.g. He has lived and breathed polo since he was seven.
他从7岁开始就一直热衷于马球。
10.枉过此生;白活
If you tell someone that theyhaven't lived unless they experience a particular thing, you are telling them that thing is extremely good and should be experienced.
e.g. If you have never been to an opera, you haven't lived...
要是从来没看过歌剧,那就枉过此生了。
e.g. You haven't lived until you've used their new micro system.
要是没用过他们新的微系统,这辈子就算白活了。
11.活在担心/恐惧中
You can use expressions such asto live in fear andto live in terror to indicate that someone is always thinking about an unpleasant or frightening event, because they think that it might happen.
e.g. One in 10 Californians is unemployed and thousands morelive in fear of losing their jobs.
十分之一的加利福尼亚人没有工作,还有数以千计的人成天提心吊胆地害怕失去工作。
12.自己活也让别人活;互相宽容;互不干扰
You saylive and let live as a way of saying that you should let other people behave in the way that they want to and not criticize them for behaving differently from you.
13.狂欢;享乐一番
If youlive it up, you have a very enjoyable and exciting time, for example by going to lots of parties or going out drinking with friends.
live的近义词
e.g. There is no reason why you couldn'tlive it up once in a while.
偶尔放纵一下也无妨。
14. tolive hand to mouth -> see hand
tolive a lie -> see lie
tolive beyond your means -> see means
tolive in sin -> see sin
When you are talking about someone's home, the verb
live has a different meaning in the continuous tenses than it does in the simple tenses. For example, if you say '
I'm living in London', this suggests that the situation is temporary and you may soon move to a different place. If you say '
I live in London', this suggests that London is your permanent home.
live表示“居住”时,在进行时态中与一般时态中含义不同。如:I'm living in London(我目前住在伦敦)表示这种状态是暂时的,可能很快会搬到别的地方去。I
live in London(我住在伦敦)则表示这是永久性住处。
相关词组:live downlive offlive onlive onlive outlive throughlive togetherlive up to
形容词用法(ADJECTIVE USES)
1.活的;有生命的
live animals or plants are alive, rather than being dead or artificial.
live的解释
e.g. ...a protest against the company's tests onlive animals.
反对该公司利用活体动物做试验的抗议
e.g. ...baskets oflive chickens.
一篮篮的活鸡
2.现场直播的;实况转播的
Alive television or radio programme is one in which an event or performance is broadcast at exactly the same time as it happens, rather than being recorded first.
e.g. Murray was a guest on alive radio show.
默里在一个直播的电台节目里当嘉宾。
e.g. ...we were laughing and gossiping, oblivious to the fact that we were onlive TV...
我们肆意大笑,闲聊八卦,忘记了自己是在做电视直播。
3.(表演)现场的
Alive performance is given in front of an audience, rather than being recorded and then broadcast or shown in a film.
e.g. The Rainbow has not hostedlive music since the end of 1981...
1981年末之后,彩虹剧院就再没主办过现场音乐会。
e.g. Alive audience will pose the questions...
问题将由现场的观众提出。
4.(唱片)现场录制的
Alive recording is a recording of a band playing at a concert, rather than in a studio.
e.g. This is my favouritelive album of all time...
这是我最喜爱的现场专辑。
e.g. The LP featureslive recordings from the 'Great Xpectations' all-day show.
这张大碟收录了“远大前程”全天秀的现场录音。
5.带电的;通电的
Alive wire or piece of electrical equipment is directly connected to a source of electricity.
e.g. The plug broke, exposinglive wires...
插头坏了,带电的电线露在外面。
e.g. He warned others about thelive electric cables as they climbed to safety.
他们爬向安全地带的过程中,他提醒其他人当心带电的电缆。
6.(子弹)金属的;实(弹)的
live bullets are made of metal, rather than rubber or plastic, and are intended to kill people rather than injure them.
e.g. They trained in the jungle usinglive ammunition.
他们在丛林中接受真枪实弹的训练。
7.(炸弹或导弹)尚未爆炸的
Alive bomb or missile is one which has not yet exploded.
e.g. Alive bomb had earlier been defused.
一枚未爆炸的炸弹稍早被拆除了雷管。
8.开始使用;启用;启动
If a system, campaign, or other course of actiongoes live, it starts to be used.
live
e.g. The new system wentlive earlier this year...
新系统在今年早些时候开始了运行。
e.g. The service should golive this summer.
这项服务将在今年夏天投入使用。
9.活生生的;千真万确的
You usereal live to say that someone or something is present or exists, when you want to indicate that you think this is exciting and unusual or unexpected.
e.g. He had never met a reallive admiral...
他从来没遇到过一位真正的海军上将。
e.g. She has the best pet of all — a reallive tiger.
她有世上最佳的宠物——一只活生生的老虎。