living

英[ˈlɪvɪŋ]美[ˈlɪvɪŋ]

adj.活（着）的，在使用中的，生动的；

n.生活方式，生计，收入，生者，（尤指旧时）有俸金住房的牧师职位；

复数：livings;

例句

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。

She heard that it was easier to make a living in the big cities.她听说大城市谋生容易些。

He makes a living by writing.他靠写作谋生。

He worried about how to make his living.他为如何谋生发愁。

A few months living away from home have given him renewed self-confidence.离家几个月的生活使他重新获得了自信心。

People living near the airport are pushing for new rules about night flight.住在机场附近的人们正强烈要求制订出夜航班机的新规。

She insisted on her mother's living with her.她坚持要她母亲和她住在一起。

When he went bankrupt he lost everything, and ended up living on skid row for a few years.破产后他一无所有，*后沦落到在贫民区住了几年。

There are only a man and his wife living there.They keep entirely to themselves.只有一个人和他的妻子住在那里, 他们完全不与外人来往。

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。

英语六级真题

The central issue in the case is whether patent rights to living things extend to the progeny of those things.

Whether patent for living things applies to their later generations

improve their living conditions

Smith touches on construction methods, the revolutionary invention of the automatic lift, the practicalities of living in the sky and the likelihood that, as cities become more crowded, apartment living will become the norm.

People enjoy living in skyscrapers with a view

Thirst grows for living unplugged More people are taking breaks from the connected life amid the stillness and quiet of retreats like the Jesuit Center in Wernersville, Pennsylvania

the man said, and introduced himself as Larry; we had met, I gathered, 19 years before, when he had been living in the hermitage as an assistant to one of the monks

help raise people's living standards

I could spend months sweating over my own "paintings", but I'd produce something you wouldn't want to hang in your living room.

Living habits of monarch butterflies.

Our living habits are altered

If in these activities the physical features of the planet are damaged, if the environment is made inhospitable for a multitude of living species,then so be it.

The change cut their expenditures in half, but the new living arrangement proved too challenging.

Fazio's Indiana study found that three times as many randomly assigned interracial roommates were no longer living together at the end of the semester, compared with white roommates.

Who benefited from living with a white roommate according to Fazio's study

Students who are accustomed to living in dorms.

Even if I am on vacation in the mountains, I am eating food someone else has grown, living in a house someone else has built, wearing clothes someone else has sewn from cloth woven by others, using electricity someone else is distributing to my house.

To prove that she could earn her living as a gardener.

"You hear that you shouldn't take all these photos and interrupt the experience, and it's bad for you, and we're not living in the present moment," says Kristin Dehl, associate professor of marketing at the University of Southern California Marshall Schoo

A billion people are living in slums, not the same billion people, but there is some overlap.

But could Norway keep its standard of living and yet cut its emissions to Moroccan or even Ethiopian levels?

But we can say that basically a family living in relative poverty has less than a percentage of the average family income.

first, people are living longer with a lot more complex needs.

In fact, they sometimes take their own lives because they are treated so badly, and because they believe they will be born again, free and living in their own land.

In the future, they will improve our health care, social welfare and standard of living.

In the last few decades of the 20th century, living standards went up and economic depressions were largely averted in the US.

Instead, I dreamed of living in New York City and my parents obliged me with a visit to New York University's NYU campus.

It reflected the fact that these decades saw a climb in general standards of living and avoidance of mass societal traumas like foil-scale war or economic deprivation.

Its primary mission is to enhance human well-being and help meet the basic needs of all people, with the particular focus on those who are vulnerable, oppressed and living in poverty.

living in college dormitories, there are no parents to tell you to study harder or stop wasting time.

living in slums means they don't have infrastructure to take the garbage away, they don't have secure water supplies to drink.

Many people, it seems, are uneasy living in a thickening cloud of radio waves from mobile phone towers and the gadgets they communicate with.

People living in moderate poverty have the resources to keep themselves alive, but only at a very basic level.

right into the early 20th century, kitchens were smoky, noisy places, generally located underground, or to the back of the house, and as far from living space as possible.

Rodriguez is just the seventh entrepreneur to move into one of Brookdale's 1, 100 senior living communities.

That question, repeated across a dozen environmental issues and across our diverse planet, is what will ultimately determine whether the human race is living beyond its ecological means as it pursues economic revival.

The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources(CCAMLR) manages the seas around Antarctica.

The idea is that we are taking more out of what you might call the planet's environmental bank balance than it can sustain; we are living beyond our ecological means.

This means minors enjoy material benefits and legal protections that would have been the envy of those living in the past.

Though he didn't come from a farming family, from a young age tim Joseph was fascinated by the idea of living off the land.

We need to look at ways of cutting the working week without slashing living standards.

We should keep these distinctions in mind when we research people's living conditions either in the developing or the developed world.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-COUNT

生计；饭碗

The work that you do for a living is the work that you do in order to earn the money that you need.

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N-UNCOUNT

生活质量；生活素质；生活（方式）

You use living when you are talking about the quality of people's daily lives.

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ADJ

居住的；起居的

You use living to talk about the places where people relax when they are not working.

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N-PLURAL

生者；活着的人们

The living are people who are alive, rather than people who have died.

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PHRASE

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 someone scrapes a living or scratches a living, you mean that they manage to earn enough to live on, but it is very difficult. In American English, you say they scrape out a living or scratch out a living .

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英汉词典释义

adj.

活(着)的

现存的, 在使用中的

逼真的, 生动的

n.

生计, 生存之道

生活方式

英英词典释义

Noun

1. the experience of living; the course of human events and activities;

2. people who are still living;

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

4. the financial means whereby one lives;

Adjective

1. pertaining to living persons;

2. true to life; lifelike;

3. dwelling or inhabiting; often used in combination;

4. (informal) absolute;

5. still in existence;

6. still in active use;

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