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living adj.活着的；生动的n.生活；生计动词live的现在分词. (1) 我要告诉你一个我从未告诉过任何人的秘密。(2) 他是英国活着的最伟大的小说家。(3) 这片荒野是一座活生生的自然历史博物馆。(4) 法官劝告他改变生活方式。(5) 我们应该改进所谓的生活品质。(6) 你以什么谋生？ 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.

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英 ['lɪvɪŋ] 美 ['lɪvɪŋ] (1) I'll tell you a secret that I have never told a living soul.(2) He was the greatest living novelist in England.(3) The wilderness is a living museum of natural history.(4) The judge advised him to amend his way of living.(5) We should improve what is called the quality of living.(6) What do you do for a living? 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. 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]生计；饭碗 The work that you do for a living is the work that you do in order to earn the money that you need.   [usu sing]Father never talked about what he did for a living...父亲从不谈他的谋生之道。He earns his living doing all kinds of things.他做各种各样的活计来谋生。2[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]生活质量；生活素质；生活（方式） You use living when you are talking about the quality of people's  daily lives.   [with supp]Olivia has always been a model of healthy living.奥利维娅一向是健康生活的楷模。...the stresses of urban living.城市生活的压力3[ADJ 形容词]居住的；起居的 You use living to talk about the places where people relax when they are not working.   [ADJ n]The spacious living quarters were on the second floor...宽敞的生活区位于3楼。The study links the main living area to the kitchen.书房把主要的生活区与厨房连在一起。4[N-PLURAL 复数名词]生者；活着的人们 The living are people who are alive, rather than people who have died.   [the N]The young man is dead. We have only to consider the living.这位年轻人已经死了。我们只能考虑在生之人。5[PHRASE 短语]艰难度日，勉强糊口（美国英语中作scrape out a living或scratch out a living） If you say that someone scrapes a living or scratches a living, you mean that they manage to earn enough to live on, but it is very difficult. In American English, you say they scrape out a living or scratch out a living .   [V inflects]He almost manages to scrape a living as an artist.他靠当艺术家来勉强混口饭吃。6  living proof→see: proof； in living memory→see: memory； the world owes them a living→see: world；

英语单词	living
英美音标	英 ['lɪvɪŋ] 美 ['lɪvɪŋ]
中文释义	adj.活着的；生动的 n.生活；生计动词live的现在分词.
英语例句	(1) I'll tell you a secret that I have never told a living soul. (2) He was the greatest living novelist in England. (3) The wilderness is a living museum of natural history. (4) The judge advised him to amend his way of living. (5) We should improve what is called the quality of living. (6) What do you do for a living?
中文例句	(1) 我要告诉你一个我从未告诉过任何人的秘密。 (2) 他是英国活着的最伟大的小说家。 (3) 这片荒野是一座活生生的自然历史博物馆。 (4) 法官劝告他改变生活方式。 (5) 我们应该改进所谓的生活品质。 (6) 你以什么谋生？
vocabulary简明	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.
vocabulary扩展	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.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]生计；饭碗 The work that you do for a living is the work that you do in order to earn the money that you need. [usu sing] Father never talked about what he did for a living... 父亲从不谈他的谋生之道。 He earns his living doing all kinds of things. 他做各种各样的活计来谋生。 2 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]生活质量；生活素质；生活（方式） You use living when you are talking about the quality of people's daily lives. [with supp] Olivia has always been a model of healthy living. 奥利维娅一向是健康生活的楷模。 ...the stresses of urban living. 城市生活的压力 3 [ADJ 形容词]居住的；起居的 You use living to talk about the places where people relax when they are not working. [ADJ n] The spacious living quarters were on the second floor... 宽敞的生活区位于3楼。 The study links the main living area to the kitchen. 书房把主要的生活区与厨房连在一起。 4 [N-PLURAL 复数名词]生者；活着的人们 The living are people who are alive, rather than people who have died. [the N] The young man is dead. We have only to consider the living. 这位年轻人已经死了。我们只能考虑在生之人。 5 [PHRASE 短语]艰难度日，勉强糊口（美国英语中作scrape out a living或scratch out a living） If you say that someone scrapes a living or scratches a living, you mean that they manage to earn enough to live on, but it is very difficult. In American English, you say they scrape out a living or scratch out a living . [V inflects] He almost manages to scrape a living as an artist. 他靠当艺术家来勉强混口饭吃。 6 living proof→see: proof ； in living memory→see: memory ； the world owes them a living→see: world ；

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