living单词基本解析：

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
adj.活着的, 生动的 n.生活, 生计 动词live的现在分词
adj.活（着）的；现存的；在使用中的；逼真的

living变化用词：

复数:livings;
副词: lividly | 名词: lividity |
复数：livings

living英英释义：

Noun

1. the experience of living; 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"

名词 living:

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

同义词：life

people who are still living

the condition of living or the state of being alive

同义词：animation, life, aliveness

the financial means whereby one lives

同义词：support, keep, livelihood, bread and butter, sustenance

动词 live:

inhabit or live in

同义词：dwell, live, inhabit

lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style

同义词：live

continue to live; endure or last

同义词：survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out

support oneself

同义词：exist, survive, live, subsist

have life, be alive

同义词：be, live

have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations

同义词：know, experience, live

pursue a positive and satisfying existence

同义词：live

形容词 living:

pertaining to living persons

true to life; lifelike

dwelling or inhabiting; often used in combination

(informal) absolute

still in existence

同义词：surviving

still in active use

(used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried;living[ 'liviŋ ]n.the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities

同义词：life

people who are still living

"save your pity for the living"

the condition of living or the state of being alive

同义词：animationlifealiveness

the financial means whereby one lives

同义词：supportkeeplivelihoodbread and buttersustenance

adj.pertaining to living persons

"within living memory"

true to life; lifelike

"the living image of her mother"

dwelling or inhabiting; often used in combination

"living quarters"; "tree-living animals"

(informal) absolute

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

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"

同义词：surviving

still in active use

"a living language"

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

"carved into the living stone"

living中文词源：

living用法和例句：

all living things

所有生物

living organisms

活的机体

the finest living pianist

當世的最杰出的钢琴家

living languages (= those still spoken)

现用语言

a living faith

仍有人信奉的信仰

He is living proof that not all engineers are boring.

并非所有工程师都缺乏情趣，他就是活生生的例子。

the coldest winter in living memory

人们记忆中最寒冷的冬天

She earns her living as a freelance journalist.

她靠做自由撰稿记者来维持生计。

to make a good/decent/meagre living

过优裕的 / 体面的 / 贫困的生活

What do you do for a living ?

你靠什么谋生？

to scrape/scratch a living from part-time tutoring

靠做兼职家庭教师勉强维持生活

everyday living

日常生活

communal living

集体生活

plain living

简朴的生活

Their standard of living is very low.

他们的生活水平很低。

The cost of living has risen sharply.

生活费用已急剧上涨。

poor living conditions/standards

恶劣的生活条件；低下的生活水准

the living and the dead

生者与死者

Father never talked about what he did for a living...

父亲从不谈他的谋生之道。

He earns his living doing all kinds of things.

他做各种各样的活计来谋生。

Olivia has always been a model of healthy living.

奥利维娅一向是健康生活的楷模。

...the stresses of urban living.

城市生活的压力

The spacious living quarters were on the second floor...

宽敞的生活区位于3楼。

The study links the main living area to the kitchen.

书房把主要的生活区与厨房连在一起。

The young man is dead. We have only to consider the living.

这位年轻人已经死了。我们只能考虑在生之人。

He almost manages to scrape a living as an artist.

他靠当艺术家来勉强混口饭吃。

living

A living dog is better than a dead lion.

[谚]死狮不如活狗。

One room had to serve for both bedroom and living room.

一个房间只好兼作卧室和起居室。

There is a hierarchy in the classification of all living creatures.

一切生物均可按等级分类。

All living things depend on the sun for their growth.

万物生长靠太阳。

Higher living costs have swallowed up our pay rise.

上涨的生活费用已经抵销了我们增加的工资。

No living man all things can.

世上没有万事通。

Generations of urban living sharpened their wits.

世代居住在城市里使他们磨练了才智。

There are millions of living things on the earth.

世界上有数以百万计的生物。

I'll do anything within reason to earn my living.

为了谋生，只要是正当的事我什麽事都做。

Henry enjoyed going into woods and living life in the raw.

亨利喜欢到树林里去过最简朴的生活。

Henry, it's about time you got cracking and re-decorated the living room.

亨利，现在该是你动手重新装饰起居室的时候了。

People's living standard has had a perceptible improvement.

人民的生活水平明显地改善了。

There are still many people whose living conditions are miserable.

仍有许多人的生活条件是很艰苦的。

Once upon a time, there was an old man living in a small village.

从前，在一个小村庄里住着一位老人。

He is living a double life- a church warden by day and a thief by night.

他以前过着双重人格的生活－－白天当教区委员、夜里当贼。

They both go out to work and have a nanny living in.

他们俩都外出工作，雇了个保姆看家。

They are the poor men living in a garret.

他们就是住在阁楼上的穷人。

They are now living in relative comfort.

他们现在过着比较安逸的生活。

His family are living in an Indian reservation.

他全家都住在一个印第安居留地里。

He made a living as best as he could.

他在竭尽全力把实验做好。

He earns a bare living by his work.

他工作收入仅够维持生活。

He finds country life preferable to that of living in the city.

他感到在乡村生活比在城市更好。

He finds country life preferable to living in the city.

他感到在乡村生活比在城市生活要好些。

He is a president living in the shadow of his predecessor.

他是一个在他的前任的声誉影响中过日子的总统。

He was a punch-drunk boxer who made his living shining shoes.

他是一个被击中头部而变痴呆的拳击手，故只好以擦鞋为生。

He is living proof of the wonders of modern medicine.

他是当代医学奇迹的活证明。

He's a tramp and used to living rough.

他是流浪汉,惯于风餐雨卧。

He set an example of plain living.

他树立了艰苦朴素的榜样。

He dreamed of living in decent conditions.

他梦想着过体面的生活。

Living alone unsettled his nerves.

他独自生活，情绪很不稳定。

He is in the living room now.

他现在在起居室里。

His books lay in a heap on the floor of the living room.

他的书叠成一堆放在客厅的地板上。

His living quarters were two small rooms on the second floor of the store.

他的住处是那家店铺二楼上的两个小房间。

His way of living is different than ours.

他的生活方式跟我们的不同。

He was heartened to find the people living better than ever before.

他看到人民生活比过去任何时候都好，感到很高兴。

He feels boxed in, living in that tiny flat.

他身居斗室，感到很不自在。

He leaves his office job to try to make a living on the land.

他辞去了办公室的工作，改以务农为生。

Exile was for him a living death.

他遭流放是进了活地狱。

He earns a living by hunting.

他靠打猎谋生。

Living in the big city is convenient.

住在大城市是方便的。

The great drawback to living near a main road is noise.

住在大街旁最大的缺点是噪音。

It must be nice living at home and never have to worry about food.

住在家里的学生多好，不必为了吃饭而烦恼。

The great drawback to living on a main road is the constant noise.

住在通衢大道上的最大缺点就是噪声不断。

All the people living in that country have auburn hair.

住在那个村子里的人们的头发全是赤褐色的。

Living such a long way from the shops can be very inconvenient.

住得离商店这么远会很不方便。

I don't mind living in a top flat. Going up and down stairs will be good exercise for me.

住顶楼，我不在乎。上上下下爬楼梯对我会是很好的锻炼。

She makes a rather precarious living as a novelist.

作为小说家，她过着不太稳定的生活。

What do you do for a living?

你以什么谋生？

Are you quite sure there is no living beings on Mars?

你十分肯定是在火星上没有生物吗？

You will soon weary of living abroad.

你在国外生活不消多久就不满意了。

You have to balance the advantages of living in a big city against the disadvantages.

你必须权衡住在大城市的利与弊。

Living in your ivory tower at Oxford, you can't imagine what it's like to go hungry.

你生活在牛津的象牙之塔中，想像不到挨饿是什么滋味。

Do you know the telegraph operator living over the way?

你认识住在路对面的那个报务员吗？

The nuns are living in the convent.

修女们住在修道院里。

The company and the union agreed that the worker's wages should be subjected to changes in the cost of living.

公司和工会商定，今后工人工资应比照生活费用的变化而调整。

We've been living on the breadline for weeks.

几个星期以来我们一直吃了上顿没下顿。

The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it.

发觉你自己享有声誉的惟一时期，是你的行为有负你的盛名之时。

Mr Smith found the steaming jungle a living death.

史密斯先生觉得，那湿热的热带丛林简直无法生活。

Wages were sixpence a week within living memory.

周工资为六便士的年代，人们记忆犹新。

Let us remember all those who have gone before, and have left us their example of Christian living.

咱们要缅怀那些先驱，他们给我们树立了基督教的正派生活方式的榜样。

So many people think the world owes them a living and they don't go and do anything about it.

因此许我多人都认为理当享受，他们饱食终日，无所事事。

There is a beautiful antique screen in their living room.

在他们的客厅里有一个漂亮的古董屏风。

The beauty of living in California is that the weather is so good.

在加利福尼亚居住的好处就在于气候宜人。

It is possible to multiply bacteria and other living organisms in the laboratory.

在实验室能够繁殖细菌和其他生物。

In ordinary living there can be some tolerance of unpunctuality.

在平常的生活中，对不准时的行为可以给予一些宽容。

In old China workers and peasants could hardly eke out a living, let alone send their children to school.

在旧中国，工人农民连生活都难以维持，更谈不上送子女上学了。

It wasn't easy scratching out a living in those hard time.

在那段艰难的日子里，糊口是很不容易的。

The living is in the gift of the squire.

地主有安排牧师奉禄之权。

The living thing on the earth can not subsist on mars.

地球上的生物不可能在火星上生存。

Many of the common materials of the earth's crust may alternate between the living and the nonliving states.

地球表面上有许多普通的状之都可能在有生命和无生命中交替。

The quality of urban living has been damaged by excessive noise levels.

城市生活的质量已被过度的噪音所破坏。

She's living with some man she picked up on holiday.

她与一个在假日认识的男人同住。

She thinks they can get married on his earnings of only fifty pounds a week but she's living in a fool's paradise.

她以为他每周只要挣50英镑，他们就可以结婚，但她是陶醉在虚无缥渺的乐境之中而已。

She makes her living from the soil.

她以务农为生。

After living abroad for years, she suddenly surfaced again in London.

她在国外居住多年之後，突然在伦敦重新露面了。

She lost interest in living and just pined away.

她已了无生趣，日渐憔悴。

She gives us a living example of sanctity.

她给我们树立了一个圣洁的活榜样。

She is still living, and this is making man feel relief.

她还活着，这是使人感到宽慰的。

How does she earn her living?

她靠什么谋生？

She earned her living by singing in a nightclub.

她靠在夜总会唱歌谋生。

用作形容词(adj.)

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。

用作名词(n.)

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？

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