living常用短语

1. 活着的，活的，有生命的，生存着的
2. 逼真的，生动的
3. 现存的
4. 生活的
5. 维持生活的
6. 在活动中的
7. 充满生气的，活跃的
8. 适于居住的
9. 在使用的
10. 在实施的
11. 在仍活着的人们的记忆中的，记忆犹新的

1. 生计，谋生，生活，生存，活
2. 生活方式，生存之道
3. 收入，财产
4. 活着的人
5. 有俸金住房的牧师职位
6. 教士的俸禄，牧师的薪俸

1. 动词live的现在分词

1. the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities;

   "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"
   

2. people who are still living;

   "save your pity for the living"
   

3. the condition of living or the state of being alive;

   "while there's life there's hope"
   "life depends on many chemical and physical processes"
   

4. the financial means whereby one lives;

   "each child was expected to pay for their keep"
   "he applied to the state for support"
   "he could no longer earn his own livelihood"
   

1. pertaining to living persons;

   "within living memory"
   

2. true to life; lifelike;

   "the living image of her mother"
   

3. (informal) absolute;

   "she is a living doll"
   "scared the living daylights out of them"
   "beat the living hell out of him"
   

4. still in existence;

   "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"
   

5. still in active use;

   "a living language"
   

6. (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried;

   "carved into the living stone"
   

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

1. He had ascertained that his son-in-law was among the living prisoners.
   他已查明,他女婿在活着的囚犯之中。
2. They didn't find any living things there.
   他们在那儿没发现任何生物。
3. All living things need air, water and sunlight.
   一切生物都需要空气、水和阳光。
4. He is the greatest living poet.
   他是当代最伟大的诗人。
5. The blue whale is the world's largest living animal.
   蓝鲸是世界上最大的动物。
6. English is a living language.
   英语是现代使用着的语言。
7. My family has a living picture on the wall.
   我家墙上有一幅逼真的图画。
8. The child is the living image of his father.
   这孩子和他父亲长得一模一样。

1. No man living could do better.
   现代人没有一个能做得比这更好的了。

1. Is the old man still living?
   那老人还活着吗?
2. Some of the plants are dead, but most of them are still living.
   这些植物中有些已经死了,可是大部分还活着。
3. Shelly was still living when Keats died.
   济慈死时,雪莱还在世。

1. It may not be the best job in the world, but it's a living.
   尽管这不是世界上最好的工作,但不失为生活的出路。
2. In those years they were forced to beg for a living.
   那些年他们被迫出去讨饭。
3. He was condemned to touring the whole country for a living.
   他为生活所迫而走遍全国。
4. She dreams of the day when she will be playing the piano for a living.
   她梦想着有朝一日,能以演奏钢琴为生。
5. She tried to pick up a humble living by selling baskets that she had made by hand.
   她设法卖些自己编织的篮子挣钱糊口。
6. What does he do for a living?
   他靠什么来生活?
7. They enjoy good living.
   他们过着美好的生活。
8. Brasilia has been carefully planned for modern living.
   巴西利亚是为现代生活而精心设计的。
9. The living in the convent narrowed her views.
   修道院生活使她的视野变窄。
10. The prisoners are revolting against living conditions in the prisons by refusing to eat.
    囚犯以绝食来抗议监狱里的生活条件。
11. My pension is sufficient for living expenses.
    我的退休金足以满足生活花销。
12. When father lost his job, our living expenses had to be cut to the bone.
    当父亲失业后,我们的花费不得不降低到最低程度。
13. As production has developed, the living standard of the peasants has risen considerably.
    农民的生活水平随着生产的发展而大大提高。
14. It shall be our constant endeavour to help improve the living standard of our people.
    我们应该不断努力设法改善我国人民的生活水平。
15. Both the cost and the standard of living were lower before the war.
    战前生活费用和生活水准都很低。
16. A reduced standard of living will develop from increasing taxation and rising unemployment.
    捐税的增长和失业人数的上升将会导致生活水平的降低。
17. The workers marched through the streets with flags and banners to demonstrate against the rising cost of living.
    工人们在街上游行,手执旗帜示威,抗议生活费用的高涨。
18. Wage increases were eaten up by the rise in the cost of living.
    工资的增加全给生活费用的上涨抵消掉了。
19. Mr. Pearson's income allows of no extravagance in his way of living.
    皮尔逊先生的收入不允许他过奢侈的生活。
20. From his manner of dress and style of living,I guess that he is a man of considerable means.
    从他的穿着式样和生活方式看,我揣想,他是个相当富有的人。
21. He dissipated the family fortune in only a few years of wild living.
    他仅仅几年的放荡生活就把家财挥一空。

• The ordinary complements to daily living, the plates, the cups, the bowls.

  出自：G. Josipovici

• You are the only man living that can serve my brother.

  出自：R. B. Peake

1. living作形容词的基本意思是“活着的”,指长久存在,活力经久不衰,可用于人也可用于物,还可用于比喻。living在句中作定语时，既可前置也可后置。引申可作“现存的;在使用中的”“逼真的,生动的”解。
2. living无比较级和最高级形式。

1. living作名词解时，是“生活,生计”的意思,指的是一种谋生的具体方式或手段,是可数名词,常与冠词a连用。
2. living作“生活方式”解时，是不可数名词,不可加a或the。