live

英 [lɪv] 美 [lɪv]

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解释

adj. 活的；生动的；实况转播的；精力充沛的
vt. 经历；度过
vi. 活；居住；生存
n. (Live)人名；(法)利夫

※ 提供单词"live"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

中文词源

live 居住，生活，生动的，现场真播的

来自life的动词形式。

英文词源

live: live: [OE] Modern English live represents a conflation of two Old English verbs, libban and lifian, both of which go back ultimately to the same prehistoric Germanic source, *lib- ‘remain, continue’. Variants of this produced leave ‘depart’ and life. The adjective live [16] is a reduced form of alive, which derived from life.
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live (v.): Old English lifian (Anglian), libban (West Saxon) "to be, to live, have life; to experience," also "to supply oneself with food, to pass life (in some condition)," from Proto-Germanic *liben (cognates: Old Norse lifa "to live, remain," Old Frisian libba, German leben, Gothic liban "to live"), from PIE root *leip- "to remain, continue" (source also of Greek liparein "to persist, persevere;" see leave). Meaning "to make a residence, dwell" is from c. 1200. Related: Lived; living.
According to the Dutch Prouerbe ... Leuen ende laetan leuen, To liue and to let others liue. [Malynes, 1622]
To live it up "live gaily and extravagantly" is from 1903. To live up to "act in accordance with" is 1690s, from earlier live up "live on a high (moral or mental) level" (1680s). To live (something) down "outwear (some slander or embarrassment)" is from 1842. To live with "cohabit as husband and wife" is attested from 1749; sense of "to put up with" is attested from 1937. Expression live and learn is attested from c. 1620.
live (adj.): 1540s, "having life," later (1610s) "burning, glowing," a shortening of alive (q.v.). Sense of "containing unspent energy or power" (live ammunition, etc.) is from 1799. Meaning "in-person" (of performance) is first attested 1934. Live wire is attested from 1890; figurative sense of "active person" is from 1903.

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例句和用法

1. For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?: 我们活着是为了什么？不就是给邻居当笑柄，再反过来笑他们。

2. I will return, find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.: 我会回去，找到你，爱你，娶你，活的光明正大。《赎罪》

3. I clearly empathize with the people who live in those neighborhoods.: 我非常同情生活在那些地方的人们。

4. We don't live in the lap of luxury, but we're comfortable.: 我们的生活虽然并非锦衣玉食，也算是衣食无忧。

5. Try to get a feeling for the people who live here.: 试着去理解在这片土地上生息的人们。