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aliveness

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

灵活性

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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

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Examples

  • An estimated 10 quintillion—or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000—individual insects are alive at any given moment.

  • “We saw that there was a really big demand for being able to plan your time together,” says Anders Ekman, who created the Raft app, making sure he designed it in a way that was colorful and friendly, alive with emojis, GIFs and images.

  • She took them to her house, he was alive and well when he was here, and now he is dead when he went to Loreauville to her house.

  • You told me that keeping the restaurant alive in no matter what capacity, even if you are losing money, is actually an investment in its future success.

  • Even though the specimen may help advance scientific understanding, he would have rather seen it alive in the ocean.

  • We all share a similar level of aliveness, but experience being alive in a myriad of ways.

  • Why do you think that talking in terms of questions and ignorance lends itself to that kind of aliveness?

  • She had closed her eyes, but when she opened them they shone with a new and fierce aliveness.

  • She was slim but no longer lanky and owned a white-hot aliveness and a grace.

  • It was an effect of keenness, of aliveness to the zest of the passing moment.

  • The means of expression which he had formed for himself were directed to and brought forward this aliveness.

  • The night air blew through the gauze curtains, and he felt a wonderful aliveness all over his body.