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BNC: 1950 COCA: 1329

living

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liv·ing1 /ˈlɪvɪŋ/ ●●○ adjectiveadj  
1  LIVING/ALIVEalive now 活的，活着的 OPP dead
 He’s one of the greatest living composers.
他是仍然健在的最伟大的作曲家之一。
 The sun affects all living things (=people, animals, and plants).
太阳与一切生物息息相关。
 a living language (=one that people still use)
活语言，仍在使用的语言
2  living proof EXAMPLEif someone is living proof of a particular fact, they are a good example of how true it is 活生生的证据
living proof (that)
 I’m living proof that you don’t need a college degree to be successful.
没有大学学位也能获得成功，我就是一个活生生的例子。
living proof of
 the living proof of government economic incompetence
政府在经济上无能的一个明证
Examples from the Corpus
living proof• Indeed, she may well be living proof of it.• And the living proof of that was Emily.• We know that English and French speakers can live together in Canada - Montreal is living proof of that.• The team is living proof of the old saying that it's not whom you play that counts, but when you play them.• I would be-come the living proof of the strength of her womanhood.• She is living proof that a Democrat can be an honorable attorney general in a scandal-prone Democratic administration.• He is living proof that if the famine doesn't get you, the bullets will.• I'm living proof that people can make their dreams come true.• She is also living proof that stress and hard work need not necessarily be ageing.• I will remember them as living proof that you can have too much of a good thing.• Jordan is living proof that you don't have to conform to the music industry's standards in order to be accepted.
3  in/within living memory ALWAYS/FOREVERduring the time that anyone can remember 在人们尚存的记忆里
 It was the worst storm in living memory.
这是人们记忆中最严重的风暴。
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in/within living memory• After that sweltering afternoon in May, we went through a period of epic heat, the hottest summer in living memory.• For the first time in living memory a presidential candidate claimed the White House before his rival had conceded the race.• For the village it was the most exciting news in living memory.• It has doubled within living memory.• It has, after all, been the worst first year of any parliament in living memory.• Still, for a prime minister who enjoyed the longest honeymoon in living memory, these are unhappy days.• The country is in the depths of a recession, made worse by the worst drought in living memory.• They are among hundreds of northeastern North Dakota farmers with crops damaged by the worst rain and rural flooding in living memory.
4. a living death a life that is so unpleasant that it seems better to be dead 生不如死的生活
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a living death• But the hard labour for criminals which replaced judicial execution was so appalling that it was in effect a living death.• If you have opted for non-action, then you have opted for a living death.• Life without hope is a living death.• In anorexia nervosa, which becomes a living death, the same connections are prevalent, together with the same confusing implications.
5  a living hell a very unpleasant situation that makes you suffer for a long time 人间地狱
 These past few days have been a living hell.
过去这几天真是人间地狱。
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a living hell• The last two and a half weeks have been a living hell.• If life in the South was corrupt and callous, in the North it was a living hell.• It's just a living hell.• Serving in the Danuese battalions was a living hell.• That first call had been the start of a campaign of intimidation that had transformed Polly's life into a living hell.• The brave heroes returned to an epidemic of influenza which all but carried off those who had survived a living hell.• By lunchtime, everyone would know, and they would make her life a living hell after that.• My life has been a living hell since the attack.
6  living legend someone who is famous for being extremely good at something, and who still does that activity 〔某方面极为杰出的〕活着的传奇人物
 His music has made him a living legend.
他的音乐使他成为当今的传奇人物。
Examples from the Corpus
living legend• Blue Mooney, a living legend in his own time.• one of the living legends of rhythm and blues• A living legend passed away when Ferdinando Keast died in 1891, aged 87.• Many of parking's living legends were there.
→ scare/frighten the (living) daylights out of somebody at daylight(3), → beat/knock the (living) daylights out of somebody/something at daylight(4)
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living• one of the greatest living composers• In return for your resignation, I am offering you the opportunity to study a dreadful disease in a living laboratory.• It was the most dramatic and outspoken resignation speech in living memory.• Seamus Heaney is Ireland's greatest living poet.• A brother in Australia is Mary's only living relative.• In the long-term the cost was a noticeable drop in our living standards at home.
living things• How are we like and different from other living things? 2.• An ocean is full of living things.• As the sun heated up photosynthesis, the carbon was moved from air to living things by measurable amounts.• The ability to reproduce is what makes living things different from rocks.• The influence of water upon living things does not end here.• The first living things evolved in its absence, and many organisms even today still respire without its aid.• Gardens can be thriving, living things in more ways than one.• Ecology is the study of how living things relate to their environment.• They and starving cats are the only living things surviving among the shattered buildings and corrugated iron shacks.
living2 ●○○ noun  
1  [countableC usually singular]JOB/TASK the way that you earn money or the money that you earn 生计；收入
 It’s not a great job, but it’s a living.
这不是什么了不起的工作，不过是一种生计。
 What do you do for a living? (=what do you do as a job?)
你是做什么营生的？
earn/make a living
 It’s hard to make a decent living as a musician.
当音乐家很难过上体面的生活。
scrape/scratch a living (=get just enough to eat or live) 勉强维持生活
2. the living LIVING/ALIVEall the people who are alive as opposed to dead people 生者，活着的人 OPP the dead
Examples from the Corpus
the living• Funeral needs are meant to address the needs of the living.
3  [uncountableU]LIFE the way in which someone lives their life 生活方式
 the stresses of city living
城市生活的压力
4. [countableC]RRC the position or income of a parish priest 教区牧师的圣职[圣俸]
→ cost of living, standard of living, → in the land of the living at land1(7)
n COLLOCATIONS
verbs
earn/make a living
She was able to make a living out of her talents as a cook.
do something for a living (=to work at something as your job)
'What does he do for a living?' 'I think he's a taxi driver.'
scrape out/scratch out/eke out a living (=to barely earn enough money to live)
The farmers in these drought-stricken areas are barely able to scratch out a living.
adjectives
a good/decent living (=enough money)
Her husband makes a good living.
a meagre living British EnglishBrE, a meager living American EnglishAmE (=not much money)
She earned a meagre living as a shop assistant.
Examples from the Corpus
living• the harsh realities of city living• These inventories, therefore, give a sound idea of the standard of living of thousands of ordinary people.• The standard of living is another key measure which has its origins in the same source.• Despite Zborowski's frantic efforts to sell his work, Modigliani's living was still very precarious.• But the movie character and the real-life teacher do share a mutual dream of earning their livings as composers of music.
do for a living• All the way along, of course, I wondered what I would eventually do for a living.• What does he do for a living?• He was asked what he did for a living.• It's what I do for a living.• Or for guessing what this pair do for a living.• Like if you are married, and what you do for a living apart from this.• I don't know what you do for a living but you obviously don't know much about the real world.• FreeI.net doesn't care about your name, your address, your age, or what you do for a living.
From Longman Business Dictionary
livingliv·ing /ˈlɪvɪŋ/ noun [singular]
the way in which you earn money in order to live, or the money that you earn
It is becoming more and more difficult just to earn a living.
He was able to make a living as an actor.
I don’t know what he does for a living.
→ see also cost of living, standard of living
liv·ing1 adjectiveadjliving2 noun →n COLLOCATIONS1
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