| 词组 | live |
| 释义 | live Theme: EXCELLENCE mod. cool; great.Everything's live! No problem!It's live and ice. No problem, man. live 1. adjective 1 (used of the potential customer of a prostitute) eager to spend money US, 1969. 2 in horse racing, said of a horse that has attracted heavy betting US, 1975. 3 extreme, intense, exciting, good US, 1987. 4 impressive US, 1991 2. verb ► live caseoto cohabit for sexual purposes. From 'caseo' (a brothel, or overnight hire of a prostitute) UK, 1956.► live it upto have a good time, to enjoy an extravagent lifestyle US, 1951.► live largeto enjoy a life full of material pleasures US, 1975.► live on the smell of an oil ragto live on very meagre means AUSTRALIA, 1903 live by live by sth not passive to follow carefully particular rules or beliefs that guide or affect your behaviour: Clare lives by the philosophy that you can do anything if you are determined enough. He refuses to live by anyone else's rules.■ SIMILAR TO: abide by formal live down live sth down • live down sth not passive if you say that someone will not live something down, you mean that they will never make people forget about something silly or embarrassing that they have done: I don't think he'll ever live this down! The next morning I woke up and remembered what I'd done. How could I ever live it down? live for live for sth/sb not passive if you live for something or someone, they are so important to you that you feel they are your main reason for living: All through the football season, I lived for Saturdays. He seemed to be one of those boring old professors who live for their work.have something/everything/nothing to live for (=have something etc that makes life seem good and worth living) At last Ben got engaged to a girl called Jane. This gave him something to live for. Nobody could understand why she had killed herself. She had had everything to live for. live in 1. live in if someone who is employed in a house or school lives in, they live at the place where they work: Does your nanny live in?live-in adj only before noun a live-in servant lives at the place where they work: a live-in maid2. live in especially BrE if students live in, they live in one of the buildings that belong to the university, college etc: Most of the students live in during their first year. live off 1. live off sth not passive to get money from something and use it in order to live: Burley stopped working when he was sixty and spent the rest of his life living off his investments.live off the land (=live by growing and catching your own food) Most of the people on the island live off the land.2. live off sb not passive to get the money that you need to live from someone else, especially when you do not do any work yourself: She can't go on living off her parents forever. Students were just lazy good-for-nothings, who lived off the taxpayers' money.■ SIMILAR TO: sponge off3. live off sth to only eat a particular kind of food: Many teenagers tend to live off hamburgers and fries.■ SIMILAR TO: live on live on 1. live on sth not passive if you live on a particular amount of money, you have that amount of money available to buy the things you need to live: At that time we were living on $50 a week.not have/make enough to live on (=not have or earn enough money to buy the things you need) A lot of artists can't make enough to live on.2. live on sth not passive to only eat a particular kind of food: Most of the population live on a diet of rice.■ SIMILAR TO: live off3. live on to continue to exist or live, especially for a long time or for longer than expected: Great music lives on - long after the composer is dead. Many of the old traditions still live on. A growing number of people live on into their eighties or nineties. live out 1. live out your life/days/years to live for the rest of your life in a particular place or situation:+ in Edward Lear lived out his life in Italy, a sick and lonely old man. Too many old people live out their years in poverty.2. live out sth not passive to do or experience something that you have always wanted to do or imagined yourself doing: The money they won made it possible for them to live out their dreams.■ SIMILAR TO: fulfil, realize formal3. live out BrE if a student or a person who is employed in a house or school lives out, they do not live in the place where they study or work: A lot of second-year students decide to live out and share a house. live through live through sth not passive to experience a very difficult situation or event, often one that continues for a long time: My grandfather lived through two World Wars. We've lived through some very hard times together.■ SIMILAR TO: endure formal live together live together if two people live together, they share a house and have a sexual relationship, but they are not married: Mary and Alec had already lived together for several years before they decided to get married.■ SIMILAR TO: cohabit formal live up live it up to spend time doing exciting and enjoyable things, especially things that cost a lot of money: My brother always liked living it up at expensive hotels and night clubs. Hank looked at his wife. "Honey," he said, "it's time you started to live it up a bit." live up to live up to sth to be as good as people expect or hope: Patissier lived up to her reputation, and easily won the women's event. A lot of holiday resorts claim that you'll have a wonderful time - but I've found one that really lives up to its promises.live up to expectations The result of the negotiations did not live up to expectations.■ SIMILAR TO: match up to live with 1. live with sb not passive to share a house and have a sexual relationship with someone, without being married: Frank had asked her to come and live with him, but she wasn't sure.■ SIMILAR TO: shack up with sb informal2. live with sth not passive to accept something unpleasant as part of your life, because there is nothing you can do to change it or get rid of it: There was no treatment for the disease, and so Rebecca learnt to live with it. I don't think I can live with these constant arguments.■ SIMILAR TO: put up with, tolerate live, horse, and you will get grassIf you persist through difficulty, you will eventually reap benefits. The phrase of encouragement comes from a story of a farmer who plants grass for his horse and tells the horse to live until the grass has time to grow. Yeah, but if your business can survive this recession, all of your hard work will pay off. As the saying goes, "Live, horse and you will get grass." live mod. cool; great. Everything’s live! No problem!
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