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alive

/uh-lahyv/US // əˈlaɪv //UK // (əˈlaɪv) //

活着,活着的时候,活着的,活的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having life; living; existing; not dead or lifeless.
    • : living: the proudest man alive.
    • : in a state of action; in force or operation; active: to keep hope alive.
    • : full of energy and spirit; lively: Grandmother's more alive than most of her contemporaries.
    • : having the quality of life; vivid; vibrant: The room was alive with color.
    • : Electricity. live.

Phrases

  • alive and kicking
  • alive to
  • alive with
  • come alive
  • eat someone alive
  • look alive
  • more dead than alive
  • skin alive

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.being active, full of life

Examples

  • More effective disinfection on planes should reduce the transmission of coronavirus via surfaces, such as armrests, where virus left behind by an infected person can stay alive for hours.

  • To keep females in the breeding stock alive, the company adds the antibiotic tetracycline to the water where the larvae dangle rump-up before transitioning to aerial adulthood.

  • From around 29,700 to 18,530 years ago, when the animal that yielded nuclear DNA was alive, breeding woolly rhinos numbered about 10,600, the team estimates.

  • It was helpful to first calculate the probability of keeping the streak alive — that is, getting at least one hit in a game.

  • It is important that customers know that you are alive and in control of the situation on your side.

  • The distinction between over-policing and non-responsiveness was alive and well in Bed-Stuy.

  • Their logic: the sea-creature would come alive and drink up any remaining alcohol.

  • According to the AP, as of October, there were only four people still alive who be affected by this legislation.

  • After all, unlike the other vaccines currently in the pipeline, this one is alive and replication-competent.

  • Shakur remains very much alive, along with Hill, Morales, LeBeef and the others.

  • On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.

  • To-day I'm more dead than alive, as we had a lesson from him yesterday that lasted four hours.

  • Sometimes the child lay so still that Aristide arose to see whether he was alive.

  • So far as their thought is still alive these men will come into the discussion of living questions now.

  • If they are still Moderns and alive, I defy you to bury them if you are discussing living questions in a full and honest way.