| 释义 |
Definition of living in English: livingnoun ˈlɪvɪŋˈlɪvɪŋ 1usually in singular An income sufficient to live on or the means of earning it. 赖以生存的收入；谋生手段，生计 she was struggling to make a living as a dancer 她拼命靠跳舞养活自己。 what does he do for a living? 他靠什么过活？ Example sentencesExamples - And what does this lady do for a living to get a nickname like that?
- On a very basic level, you seem ignorant of what you and I do for a living.
- The yield may not be large but farmers manage to feed their family and make a living.
- But as I said, I'm aware of the problems earning enough money to make a living.
- This is real freedom, the freedom for a person - or a nation - to make a living.
- Many of the ballet artistes continue performing because it is too late for them to look to any other profession to make a living.
- Unable to find enough energy to hit a ball his confidence drained away and, with no income, he took a job folding clothes and stacking shelves for a living.
- They were never rich, but our grandparents managed to work long, hard hours to raise a family and make a living.
- Would that tell you how many partners I might have had, what TV shows I watch, and what I might do for a living?
- There are men who like much older women, but there aren't enough of them for a girl to make a proper living.
- Many men and women came to these cities from rural poverty, hoping to find a decent living.
- Before the family group stayed together and tried to make a living.
- We don't mind how you ride waves, or where, or why, or how often, where you live, or what you do for a living.
- The gift of a sheep will provide a small farming family with the means to make a living.
- Also, more than one in four Hispanic families earns a living below the national poverty level.
- Artificial government intervention is what you happen to do for a living.
- You take a guy who works hard all week trying to raise a family and earn a living.
- At this juncture a small living is offered to Edward, and the way seems open for his marriage with Lucy.
- Like their counterparts in the drug trade, the people smugglers seek to make a living from other people's misery.
- Children do not have free time, since they must help their families make a living.
Synonyms livelihood, income, source of income, means of support, means, subsistence, keep, maintenance, sustenance, nourishment, daily bread, upkeep job, day job, work, employment, occupation, trade, profession, career informal bread and butter - 1.1British (in church use) a position as a vicar or rector with an income or property.
〈英〉（教会人士用语）（有固定收入或房产的）教区牧师（或教区长）职务 he was offered the living of St Katherine's Example sentencesExamples - He first acquired the vicarage of Sutton-on-the-Forest, later gaining a second living at Stillington.
- Ordained in 1675, Flamsteed received the income of the living of Burstow, Surrey from 1684.
- Edward was a younger son, and - after ordination - was given the living at Lowick.
- In 1487, eager to appease France, Pope Innocent VIII granted James III an ‘indult’, giving him the right to prefer to Scottish livings and higher Church posts.
- Perhaps as many as 3,000 Anglican clergy lost their livings and had the Presbyterian form of church government survived, as it ultimately did in Scotland, the Anglicans would have finished up as dissenters.
- In 1560 he took holy orders, and the following year resigned his post at Ely Cathedral in order to take up a living at Doddington in the Isle of Ely.
- The second is the Black Death, in which half the livings in the Church changed hands - which tells one something about its impact.
2mass noun, with adjective or noun modifier The pursuit of a lifestyle of the specified type. 生活（方式） the benefits of country living 乡村生活的好处。 Example sentencesExamples - Standards of living and lifestyles also became very similar in rural and urban areas.
- Lesson No 3: thrifty living means getting closer to your neighbourhood.
- Our councils are already doing a fantastic job of developing lifestyle choices and active living.
- She says communal living suits her better than any white picket fence in the suburbs could.
- Now confined to bed or a wheel chair, he was completely dependent on staff for all activities of daily living.
- Indoor living meets outdoor lifestyle on both levels of the house.
- For all the excitement of modern life on your doorstep, city centre living cannot be beaten.
- Aches and pains and sore muscles are almost synonymous with sporting and recreational activities, and just day-to-day living.
- The huge growth of inner-city apartment living has seen Port Jackson's enrolment soar in recent years.
- We then calculated degree of cognitive impairment, function in activities of daily living, and behavioural disturbances.
- She is the newest addition to the long list of star ambassadors preaching the benefits of healthy living.
- The Resource Group for Deafened People plan to demonstrate how hearing appliances can make daily living easier.
- Other people may think that our habits of daily living are trivial and stupid, but to us they concern surviving as a person.
Synonyms way of life, lifestyle, manner of living, way of living, mode of living, life conduct, behaviour, activities customs, habits, ways
adjective ˈlɪvɪŋˈlɪvɪŋ 1Alive. 活的 生物。 flowers were for the living 花是为活人准备的。 Example sentencesExamples - But once you have a living reproducing thing, you then have selection coming into play.
- God makes fowl and whales and every living creature.
- Luke 16, clearly illustrates that an impassable gulf separates the dead from the living.
- He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.
- For their sake, he made them all perish in the next instant, dying as quick as a living creature could possibly.
- The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, Why do you look for the living among the dead?
- The garden was a living, breathing, creature that now seemed intent upon swallowing her up.
- Because yeast is a living organism, it breathes, grows and changes over time.
- These enter the bodies of living creatures, but cannot be removed.
- The survivors often say God saved them but if he chose to save the living, did he choose to kill the lost?
- Druids believed that souls of the dead returned to their former homes to be entertained by the living.
- It has nothing to do with the sex of a living creature.
- They also had this machine that replicated food so that no living creature had to be killed to keep them alive.
- The biological information of a living organism is biological information.
- Anyone who is among the living has hope - even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!
- I sit beside a rockpool, watching the tiny shells of living creatures, hundreds of them, going about their lives.
- For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
- We suspect that the way we treat the bodies of the dead is inevitably linked to how we treat the bodies of the living.
- I have a basic difficulty in forming a meaningful connection with any living creature who cannot communicate in coherent sentences.
- Biotechnology is the use of living organisms or biological substances to discover or produce therapeutic remedies.
Synonyms alive, live, having life animate, organic, biological, sentient breathing, moving existing, existent informal in the land of the living, among the living, alive and kicking archaic quick - 1.1attributive (of a place) used for living rather than working in.
（地点）供生活起居用的，非办公用的 the living quarters of the pub 酒店的住宿区。 Example sentencesExamples - There is a rumpus room and the living area is very spacious and has air-conditioning for your comfort.
- The living area includes a central open fireplace with space either side for bookcases or shelving units.
- Washing hands and cleaning the living place become the new habits.
- I have my own living place and a new career, so things are really looking up.
- My childhood room constituted the perfect living space because I'd never known anything else.
- The aim of the scheme is to improve the city environment and make better use of living space.
- Down below was an open kitchen, dining room and living space, with a corner fire place.
- They stretch their living space into public passageways or speak loudly at midnight.
- This type of building is seen mainly as a workshop, rather than as a living space, an idea borne out by the many loom weights found in these types of buildings.
- These include kitchens, eating areas, living places, bathing facilities and so on.
- The entire site is considered living space, with rooms formed both inside and out.
- There will also have sliding doors separating the second bedroom from a reception room so that the living space can be extended if needed.
- Here the view itself provided the catalyst as Ron created a living space offering a backdrop to the panorama, rather than the other way round.
- Even if one has left his native place, he continues to perform ritualistic practices at his present living place.
- A good deck transports you to another world, or at the very least extends your living space outdoors.
- So, CRT and widescreen meet only if you're willing to give up many cubic feet of your living space to accommodate them.
- A porch off the great room extends the living space out to a courtyard with a dipping pool and deluxe alfresco kitchen.
- A blog is a sort of extended living area and it's strange how the energy exchange you take part in there can affect you in your real life.
- Its mass and opacity, rather than walls, separate the main bedroom from the living area.
- More common than Internet is satellite TV, found in nearly every living area in the country.
- 1.2 (of a language) still spoken and used.
（语言）仍在使用的，活的 Example sentencesExamples - However, like all living language, this one is open to some resistance, albeit a somewhat piecemeal one.
- The Basque language, also known as Euskera, is Europe's oldest living language.
- He later goes to the Basque country and is exposed to the living language.
- A living language both accumulates new words of value and preserves what is old and of value.
- There have been brief illuminating instances of the living language over the years.
- Each living language has implicit in it something analogous to a scientific paradigm, the system of thinking and memory that supports a way of life.
- English is a living language and as long as it is good communication, then why not use it.
- When that happens, it ceases to be a living, spoken language, as happened to Sanskrit.
- Moreover, Irish had been a living language in a number of Protestant areas.
- English is a living language but it will only stand so much abuse.
- It can only be good to hear that ours is a living, flourishing language that will live on in all our communities for ever.
- Mrs Braham said the living languages evenings are a great way to encourage pupils to learn a new language.
- If Irish is to survive as a living language, young people must be able to secure work in the Gaeltachts.
- All living languages borrow from other languages, both living and dead, and always have done.
- Unlike Latin, classical Arabic is still a living language, existing parallel to the dialects.
Synonyms current, contemporary, present in use, operative, active, operating, ongoing, continuing, surviving, extant, persisting, remaining, abiding existing, existent, in existence - 1.3literary attributive (of water) perennially flowing.
〈诗/文〉（水）流淌不息的 流淌不息的河流。 Example sentencesExamples - Just as water renews the parched ground, so this living water renews the servant.
- They search far and wide to uncover the living waters and long to drink the passion of life.
- This side of the eschaton the Spirit pours forth living waters, filled with novelty.
- He says to this woman that he has the gift of living water for her.
- The metaphor of the people being like trees planted by streams of living water is familiar in Jeremiah.
Phrasesbe (the) living proof that (or of) Show by one's existence and qualities that something is the case. 是活生生的例子 she is living proof that hard work need not be ageing 工作辛苦不一定催人老，她就是个活生生的例子。 Example sentencesExamples - This is living proof that under certain circumstances differences in life don't have to create friction.
- It was the living proof of the old adage that man does not live by bread alone.
- She is living proof that for many, owning and operating a gallery is something that becomes a part of you that is difficult to leave behind.
- I think that seeing my parents change their lives in such a fundamental way was living proof that change is always possible.
- Melissa is living proof that even though exercise has many positive benefits, too much can be harmful.
- No, hold on a second - I was living proof that that wasn't true.
- They said they were living proof that he did and would.
- Women who attended the group many years ago were there to show that they were living proof of the value of the Women Awake initiative.
- Greg is living proof that there are bigger better things possible in this world, at least in terms of money.
- Not only that, she was living proof that athletes could be competitive on the world stage and be free of performance-enhancing drugs.
in (or within) living memory Within or during a time that is remembered by people still alive. 记忆中 the worst recession in living memory 人们记忆中最严重的经济衰退。 Example sentencesExamples - But it was still one of their worst electoral performances in living memory.
- The tragedy is that as this scramble continues, Kenya is going through the worst economic slump in living memory.
- Much of the region was reeling under the worst drought in living memory.
- The silage season of 2002 will be remembered as one of the worst in living memory.
- It was a portent of climatic things to come, which culminated in the worst floods in living memory in cities such as Prague and Dresden.
- First, the sheer scale of the disaster puts it in the running for the dubious title of worst natural disaster in living memory.
- He said the summit had allowed only 75 minutes for discussion of the worst farming crisis in living memory.
- The land was now enclosed, paving the way for farming as a modem business; the agricultural labourers were penniless and struggling as never before - at least never before within living memory.
- It's hard to credit it now, but there was a time within living memory when we tried to lure foreign tourists with romantic images of whitewashed cottages and rustic simplicity.
- An old farmer told her how this was the worst famine in living memory.
An exact copy or likeness of. 活脱脱一个…，活像 he was the living image of Tyler Example sentencesExamples - His tiger side had saved his life often, yet it was just as capable of making him into the living image of a dangerous animal.
- And thus we know, as Kepler concluded, that man is made in the image, the living image of the Creator, to discover and use these universal principles, and to change the universe by using them.
- You who refuse to bow before images also refuse to bow before the Son of God who is the living image of the invisible God, and his unchanging likeness.
- Perhaps it was just the bitterness of her home life shinning through, but for whatever reason, Holiday was the living image of bitterness.
Synonyms exact, faithful, true to life, speaking, authentic, genuine
Rhymesmisgiving, thanksgiving, unforgiving Definition of living in US English: livingnounˈlɪvɪŋˈliviNG 1usually in singular An income sufficient to live on or the means of earning it. 赖以生存的收入；谋生手段，生计 she was struggling to make a living as a dancer 她拼命靠跳舞养活自己。 what does he do for a living? 他靠什么过活？ Example sentencesExamples - There are men who like much older women, but there aren't enough of them for a girl to make a proper living.
- Unable to find enough energy to hit a ball his confidence drained away and, with no income, he took a job folding clothes and stacking shelves for a living.
- Many men and women came to these cities from rural poverty, hoping to find a decent living.
- On a very basic level, you seem ignorant of what you and I do for a living.
- You take a guy who works hard all week trying to raise a family and earn a living.
- The gift of a sheep will provide a small farming family with the means to make a living.
- Before the family group stayed together and tried to make a living.
- Would that tell you how many partners I might have had, what TV shows I watch, and what I might do for a living?
- The yield may not be large but farmers manage to feed their family and make a living.
- They were never rich, but our grandparents managed to work long, hard hours to raise a family and make a living.
- At this juncture a small living is offered to Edward, and the way seems open for his marriage with Lucy.
- And what does this lady do for a living to get a nickname like that?
- Like their counterparts in the drug trade, the people smugglers seek to make a living from other people's misery.
- Many of the ballet artistes continue performing because it is too late for them to look to any other profession to make a living.
- We don't mind how you ride waves, or where, or why, or how often, where you live, or what you do for a living.
- Children do not have free time, since they must help their families make a living.
- But as I said, I'm aware of the problems earning enough money to make a living.
- Also, more than one in four Hispanic families earns a living below the national poverty level.
- Artificial government intervention is what you happen to do for a living.
- This is real freedom, the freedom for a person - or a nation - to make a living.
Synonyms livelihood, income, source of income, means of support, means, subsistence, keep, maintenance, sustenance, nourishment, daily bread, upkeep - 1.1British (in church use) a position as a vicar or rector with an income or property.
〈英〉（教会人士用语）（有固定收入或房产的）教区牧师（或教区长）职务 Example sentencesExamples - Edward was a younger son, and - after ordination - was given the living at Lowick.
- In 1487, eager to appease France, Pope Innocent VIII granted James III an ‘indult’, giving him the right to prefer to Scottish livings and higher Church posts.
- In 1560 he took holy orders, and the following year resigned his post at Ely Cathedral in order to take up a living at Doddington in the Isle of Ely.
- Ordained in 1675, Flamsteed received the income of the living of Burstow, Surrey from 1684.
- The second is the Black Death, in which half the livings in the Church changed hands - which tells one something about its impact.
- He first acquired the vicarage of Sutton-on-the-Forest, later gaining a second living at Stillington.
- Perhaps as many as 3,000 Anglican clergy lost their livings and had the Presbyterian form of church government survived, as it ultimately did in Scotland, the Anglicans would have finished up as dissenters.
2with adjective or noun modifier The pursuit of a lifestyle of the specified type. 生活（方式） the benefits of country living 乡村生活的好处。 Example sentencesExamples - Other people may think that our habits of daily living are trivial and stupid, but to us they concern surviving as a person.
- The huge growth of inner-city apartment living has seen Port Jackson's enrolment soar in recent years.
- Now confined to bed or a wheel chair, he was completely dependent on staff for all activities of daily living.
- Aches and pains and sore muscles are almost synonymous with sporting and recreational activities, and just day-to-day living.
- Our councils are already doing a fantastic job of developing lifestyle choices and active living.
- Lesson No 3: thrifty living means getting closer to your neighbourhood.
- For all the excitement of modern life on your doorstep, city centre living cannot be beaten.
- The Resource Group for Deafened People plan to demonstrate how hearing appliances can make daily living easier.
- We then calculated degree of cognitive impairment, function in activities of daily living, and behavioural disturbances.
- She is the newest addition to the long list of star ambassadors preaching the benefits of healthy living.
- She says communal living suits her better than any white picket fence in the suburbs could.
- Indoor living meets outdoor lifestyle on both levels of the house.
- Standards of living and lifestyles also became very similar in rural and urban areas.
Synonyms way of life, lifestyle, manner of living, way of living, mode of living, life
adjectiveˈlɪvɪŋˈliviNG 1Alive. 活的 生物。 flowers were for the living 花是为活人准备的。 Example sentencesExamples - They also had this machine that replicated food so that no living creature had to be killed to keep them alive.
- These enter the bodies of living creatures, but cannot be removed.
- The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, Why do you look for the living among the dead?
- God makes fowl and whales and every living creature.
- Because yeast is a living organism, it breathes, grows and changes over time.
- But once you have a living reproducing thing, you then have selection coming into play.
- I sit beside a rockpool, watching the tiny shells of living creatures, hundreds of them, going about their lives.
- He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.
- The garden was a living, breathing, creature that now seemed intent upon swallowing her up.
- Druids believed that souls of the dead returned to their former homes to be entertained by the living.
- Biotechnology is the use of living organisms or biological substances to discover or produce therapeutic remedies.
- For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
- Luke 16, clearly illustrates that an impassable gulf separates the dead from the living.
- It has nothing to do with the sex of a living creature.
- The biological information of a living organism is biological information.
- Anyone who is among the living has hope - even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!
- I have a basic difficulty in forming a meaningful connection with any living creature who cannot communicate in coherent sentences.
- The survivors often say God saved them but if he chose to save the living, did he choose to kill the lost?
- For their sake, he made them all perish in the next instant, dying as quick as a living creature could possibly.
- We suspect that the way we treat the bodies of the dead is inevitably linked to how we treat the bodies of the living.
- 1.1 (of a place) used for living rather than working in.
（地点）供生活起居用的，非办公用的 the living quarters of the ship 酒店的住宿区。 Example sentencesExamples - They stretch their living space into public passageways or speak loudly at midnight.
- So, CRT and widescreen meet only if you're willing to give up many cubic feet of your living space to accommodate them.
- Even if one has left his native place, he continues to perform ritualistic practices at his present living place.
- Here the view itself provided the catalyst as Ron created a living space offering a backdrop to the panorama, rather than the other way round.
- A good deck transports you to another world, or at the very least extends your living space outdoors.
- There is a rumpus room and the living area is very spacious and has air-conditioning for your comfort.
- My childhood room constituted the perfect living space because I'd never known anything else.
- Its mass and opacity, rather than walls, separate the main bedroom from the living area.
- This type of building is seen mainly as a workshop, rather than as a living space, an idea borne out by the many loom weights found in these types of buildings.
- Washing hands and cleaning the living place become the new habits.
- More common than Internet is satellite TV, found in nearly every living area in the country.
- The entire site is considered living space, with rooms formed both inside and out.
- A blog is a sort of extended living area and it's strange how the energy exchange you take part in there can affect you in your real life.
- These include kitchens, eating areas, living places, bathing facilities and so on.
- A porch off the great room extends the living space out to a courtyard with a dipping pool and deluxe alfresco kitchen.
- I have my own living place and a new career, so things are really looking up.
- The aim of the scheme is to improve the city environment and make better use of living space.
- Down below was an open kitchen, dining room and living space, with a corner fire place.
- There will also have sliding doors separating the second bedroom from a reception room so that the living space can be extended if needed.
- The living area includes a central open fireplace with space either side for bookcases or shelving units.
- 1.2 (of a language) still spoken and used.
（语言）仍在使用的，活的 Example sentencesExamples - When that happens, it ceases to be a living, spoken language, as happened to Sanskrit.
- All living languages borrow from other languages, both living and dead, and always have done.
- If Irish is to survive as a living language, young people must be able to secure work in the Gaeltachts.
- The Basque language, also known as Euskera, is Europe's oldest living language.
- English is a living language and as long as it is good communication, then why not use it.
- Mrs Braham said the living languages evenings are a great way to encourage pupils to learn a new language.
- English is a living language but it will only stand so much abuse.
- There have been brief illuminating instances of the living language over the years.
- Each living language has implicit in it something analogous to a scientific paradigm, the system of thinking and memory that supports a way of life.
- Moreover, Irish had been a living language in a number of Protestant areas.
- It can only be good to hear that ours is a living, flourishing language that will live on in all our communities for ever.
- He later goes to the Basque country and is exposed to the living language.
- However, like all living language, this one is open to some resistance, albeit a somewhat piecemeal one.
- A living language both accumulates new words of value and preserves what is old and of value.
- Unlike Latin, classical Arabic is still a living language, existing parallel to the dialects.
Synonyms current, contemporary, present - 1.3literary (of water) perennially flowing.
〈诗/文〉（水）流淌不息的 流淌不息的河流。 Example sentencesExamples - The metaphor of the people being like trees planted by streams of living water is familiar in Jeremiah.
- He says to this woman that he has the gift of living water for her.
- They search far and wide to uncover the living waters and long to drink the passion of life.
- Just as water renews the parched ground, so this living water renews the servant.
- This side of the eschaton the Spirit pours forth living waters, filled with novelty.
Phrasesbe (the) living proof that (or of) Show by one's existence and qualities that something is the case. 是活生生的例子 she is living proof that hard work need not be aging 工作辛苦不一定催人老，她就是个活生生的例子。 Example sentencesExamples - Women who attended the group many years ago were there to show that they were living proof of the value of the Women Awake initiative.
- It was the living proof of the old adage that man does not live by bread alone.
- She is living proof that for many, owning and operating a gallery is something that becomes a part of you that is difficult to leave behind.
- No, hold on a second - I was living proof that that wasn't true.
- This is living proof that under certain circumstances differences in life don't have to create friction.
- Greg is living proof that there are bigger better things possible in this world, at least in terms of money.
- Not only that, she was living proof that athletes could be competitive on the world stage and be free of performance-enhancing drugs.
- They said they were living proof that he did and would.
- I think that seeing my parents change their lives in such a fundamental way was living proof that change is always possible.
- Melissa is living proof that even though exercise has many positive benefits, too much can be harmful.
in (or within) living memory Within or during a time that is remembered by people still alive. 记忆中 the worst recession in living memory 人们记忆中最严重的经济衰退。 Example sentencesExamples - It's hard to credit it now, but there was a time within living memory when we tried to lure foreign tourists with romantic images of whitewashed cottages and rustic simplicity.
- An old farmer told her how this was the worst famine in living memory.
- The silage season of 2002 will be remembered as one of the worst in living memory.
- It was a portent of climatic things to come, which culminated in the worst floods in living memory in cities such as Prague and Dresden.
- But it was still one of their worst electoral performances in living memory.
- The land was now enclosed, paving the way for farming as a modem business; the agricultural labourers were penniless and struggling as never before - at least never before within living memory.
- First, the sheer scale of the disaster puts it in the running for the dubious title of worst natural disaster in living memory.
- The tragedy is that as this scramble continues, Kenya is going through the worst economic slump in living memory.
- Much of the region was reeling under the worst drought in living memory.
- He said the summit had allowed only 75 minutes for discussion of the worst farming crisis in living memory.
An exact copy or likeness of. 活脱脱一个…，活像 Example sentencesExamples - And thus we know, as Kepler concluded, that man is made in the image, the living image of the Creator, to discover and use these universal principles, and to change the universe by using them.
- You who refuse to bow before images also refuse to bow before the Son of God who is the living image of the invisible God, and his unchanging likeness.
- Perhaps it was just the bitterness of her home life shinning through, but for whatever reason, Holiday was the living image of bitterness.
- His tiger side had saved his life often, yet it was just as capable of making him into the living image of a dangerous animal.
Synonyms exact, faithful, true to life, speaking, authentic, genuine
|