living的经典引文是：The ordinary complements to daily living, the plates, the cups, the bowls.出自：G. Josipovici。living【近义词】active。living的读音是英['lɪvɪŋ]；美['lɪvɪŋ]。
一、详尽释义点此查看living的详细内容
二、英英释义
"he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"
"save your pity for the living"
"while there's life there's hope"
"life depends on many chemical and physical processes"
"each child was expected to pay for their keep"
"he applied to the state for support"
"he could no longer earn his own livelihood"
"within living memory"
"the living image of her mother"
"she is a living doll"
"scared the living daylights out of them"
"beat the living hell out of him"
"the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil"
"the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania"
"a living language"
"carved into the living stone"
三、词典解释
1.生计；饭碗
The work that you do for aliving is the work that you do in order to earn the money that you need.
e.g. Father never talked about what he did for aliving...
父亲从不谈他的谋生之道。
e.g. He earns hisliving doing all kinds of things.
他做各种各样的活计来谋生。
2.生活质量；生活素质；生活（方式）
You useliving when you are talking about the quality of people's daily lives.
e.g. Olivia has always been a model of healthyliving.
奥利维娅一向是健康生活的楷模。
e.g. ...the stresses of urbanliving.
城市生活的压力
3.居住的；起居的
You useliving to talk about the places where people relax when they are not working.
e.g. The spaciousliving quarters were on the second floor...
宽敞的生活区位于3楼。
e.g. The study links the mainliving area to the kitchen.
书房把主要的生活区与厨房连在一起。
4.生者；活着的人们
Theliving are people who are alive, rather than people who have died.
e.g. The young man is dead. We have only to consider theliving.
这位年轻人已经死了。我们只能考虑在生之人。
5.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 someonescrapes a living orscratches a living, you mean that they manage to earn enough to live on, but it is very difficult. In American English, you say theyscrape out a living orscratch out a living .
e.g. He almost manages to scrape aliving as an artist.
他靠当艺术家来勉强混口饭吃。
6. living proof -> see proof
inliving memory -> see memory
the world owes them aliving -> see world
四、例句
I'll tell you a secret that I have never told a living soul.
我要告诉你一个我从未告诉过任何人的秘密。
He was the greatest living novelist in England.
他是英国活着的最伟大的小说家。
The wilderness is a living museum of natural history.
这片荒野是一座活生生的自然历史博物馆。
The judge advised him to amend his way of living.
法官劝告他改变生活方式。
We should improve what is called the quality of living.
我们应该改进所谓的生活品质。
What do you do for a living?
你以什么谋生？
五、常用短语
六、词汇搭配
七、词源解说
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