live
- 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
词态变化
中文词源
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.
=> life - 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.
双语例句
- 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。
来自《傲慢与偏见》
- 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》
来自金山词霸 每日一句
- 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。
来自柯林斯例句
- 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。
来自柯林斯例句
- 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。
来自柯林斯例句