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living

/liv-ing/US // ˈlɪv ɪŋ //UK // (ˈlɪvɪŋ) //

生活,活,活的,活活

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having life; being alive; not dead: living persons.
    • : in actual existence or use; extant: living languages.
    • : active or thriving; vigorous; strong: a living faith.
    • : burning or glowing, as a coal.
    • : flowing freely, as water.
    • : pertaining to, suitable for, or sufficient for existence or subsistence: living conditions; a living wage.
    • : of or relating to living persons: within living memory.
    • : lifelike; true to life, as a picture or narrative.
    • : in its natural state and place; not uprooted, changed, etc.: living rock.
    • : Informal. very; absolute: You scared the living daylights out of me!He's making her life a living hell.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act or condition of a person or thing that lives: Living is very expensive these days.
    • : the means of maintaining life; livelihood: to earn one's living.
    • : a particular manner, state, or status of life: luxurious living.
    • : Usually the living . living persons collectively: glad to be back among the living.
    • : British. the benefice of a member of the clergy.

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Examples

  • His prototype for Goat is Alto Pharmacy, a booming digital health unicorn today that the founders started in his living room.

  • It didn’t take long for the Wrecking Ball of Consequence to come swinging into the Houston Rockets’ living room.

  • This ensures your CTV ads are delivering an experience that is traditionally only found in the living room, watching network television.

  • As much as Netflix may be a tree in spirit, in reality, it’s not a living, interconnected organism.

  • We could raise the federal minimum wage, which hasn’t gone up in over 11 years, or incentivize businesses to pay their employees a living wage.

  • Patrick Klugman, the deputy mayor of Paris, said: “We are living our kind of 9/11,” he said.

  • Last week I turned 40, a bittersweet occasion because I crossed the line to living longer without my mother than with her.

  • But as an American creating a new brand here, and living the daily life of the souk, he seems to be in a league of his own.

  • A single father, he had been living abroad and returned when his mother was diagnosed with cancer.

  • For those living in poor communities in particular, interactions with police rarely come with good news and a smile.

  • To be so humbled in the knowledge of any living being, was the vultures of Prometheus to the proud heart of Ripperda.

  • The living (value £250) is in the gift of trustees, and is now held by the Rev. M. Parker, Vicar.

  • 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.

  • Either they are unavoidable if your living questions are fully discussed, or they are irrelevant and they do not matter.