形容詞
1. She is the living image of her young mother.
她活像她母親年青時的樣子。
2. All the living presidents attended Nixon's funeral.
所有活著的總統(tǒng)參加了尼克森的葬禮。
3. The wilderness is a living museum of natural history.
這片荒野是一座活生生的自然歷史博物館。
名詞
1. We advocate plain living.
我們提倡儉樸的生活。
2. He earns his living as a jockey.
他靠當(dāng)賽馬騎師為生。
Garages & Parking-(車庫和停車)
A：You should save some money on parking here.
把車停在這兒可以省些錢。
B：Yeah, I don’t have to pay for a space on the street.
是呀，我不用再付錢在街上找地方停車了。
A：Really? How long did it take you to find a spot yesterday?
是嗎？你昨天找地方（停車）兜了多久了？
B：Well, last night it took me half an hour to find a spot when I came home from work.
哦，昨晚我下班回來的時候花了半小時才找到一個地方停車。
A：You get home late, don’t you?
你很晚才回家，是嗎？
B：Yeah, around seven. Most of the street parking is gone by then.
是，差不多7點(diǎn)了。那個時候街上大都沒有停車的地方了。
A：Ah, well. You can’t have everything.
是，可是你不可能要求事事都完美。
B：Yeah. I can live with it. It’s great to be living alone.
是呀。我可以應(yīng)付的。一個人住很不錯。
Looking for an Apartment-(找房子)
A：I need to find a new place to live.
我要另找一個地方住。
B：Yeah? Why? Don’t you like living with me?
是嗎？為什么？你不喜歡和我一起住嗎？
A：Oh, it’s not you. I just want my own place.
哦，不是因?yàn)槟愕木壒?。我只是想有自己的私人空間。
B：Well, check the newspaper.
好吧，看看報紙上有沒有。
A：Jeez…I didn’t realize a single bedroom apartment went for so much these days.
哇呀，我沒料到一個單間公寓這些天這么貴。
B：Yeah, prices have really gone up the past couple of years.
是呀，過去這幾年價錢真是提高不少。
A：Oh, here’s one. It’s looks like its in this neighborhood, $600 a month. That’s not to bad.
哦，這兒有一個。好像在這兒附近。每個月600元，還過得去。
B：No, it’s pretty good. Why not give the landlord a call?
不僅如此，真很不錯呢。為何不給房東一個電話呢？
A：Hello. I’m calling about the one bedroom in Lincoln Park. Could I take a look at it? Yes. Tonight at six is fine. Thanks.
你好，我打電話過來詢問林肯公園的這間房。我可以去看看嗎？是的。今晚六點(diǎn)可以，謝謝。
Apartment for Rent-(公寓招租)
A：This apartment has three rooms and a bath. Here's the kitchen.
這套公寓有三個房間和一個衛(wèi)生間。這兒是廚房。
B：It seems a little small to me.
它對我來說好像小了點(diǎn)兒。
living
A：Not really, for one person, and it has a nice gas range and a good refrigerator.There are lots of shelves and cupboards, too.
實(shí)際上不小吧，你只一個人。而且這兒有一只漂亮的煤氣灶和很好的冰箱。還有很多大櫥和裝飾櫥。
B：What about closets?
有些什么壁櫥？
A：You'll have two large ones in the badroom.One has shelves and a built-in shoe rack.Then there's a storage closet in the living room and a linen closet in the bathroom.
在臥室內(nèi)有兩個大壁櫥。其中一個有擱板和鞋架。在起居室有一個放在床上用品及毛巾的壁櫥。
B：The living room looks sort of dark.
起居室看起來光線不太好。
A：We're painting it a lighter color, and it gets the afternoon sun.
我們正在把它漆成明亮的顏色。下午房間內(nèi)可以照到太陽。
B：Well, thank you for showing me around.I'll let you know tonight if I decide to take it.I want to look around before I make up my mind.
謝謝你給我們看了房間。 如果我決定要，今天晚上我會告訴你。我想作出決定前再慎重考慮一下。
1. 生活：也不知道(knowledge)是怎么回事,這幾天做事總心不在焉的 生活(living)了多年的地方(place),居然也會出現(xiàn)(appearance)烏龍事件(occurrence),而且還是在天天都用得上的浴室(bathroom)里出現(xiàn)!
2. living是什么意思
2. 生計：一張地圖的完成代表在地化的知識、行動與責(zé)任的投入」,這正符合社會學(xué)習(xí)領(lǐng)域要整合「人的生存(survival)、生計(living)、生活(life)與生命(existence)四大層面」的基本理念,
3. 活著的：此外,不少人把非生物的環(huán)境和無機(jī)環(huán)境當(dāng)作同意詞使用,為了避免這種混亂,限定生物環(huán)境是指活著的(living)生物,非生物環(huán)境是指所有無生命的(non-living)東西.
1. 生計；飯碗
The work that you do for a living is the work that you do in order to earn the money that you need.
e.g. Father never talked about what he did for a living...
父親從不談他的謀生之道。
e.g. He earns his living doing all kinds of things.
他做各種各樣的活計來謀生。
2. 生活質(zhì)量；生活素質(zhì)；生活（方式）
You use living when you are talking about the quality of people's daily lives.
e.g. Olivia has always been a model of healthy living.
奧利維婭一向是健康生活的楷模。
e.g. ...the stresses of urban living.
城市生活的壓力
3. 居住的；起居的
You use living to talk about the places where people relax when they are not working.
living的翻譯
e.g. The spacious living quarters were on the second floor...
寬敞的生活區(qū)位于3樓。
e.g. The study links the main living area to the kitchen.
書房把主要的生活區(qū)與廚房連在一起。
4. 生者；活著的人們
The living are people who are alive, rather than people who have died.
living是什么意思
e.g. The young man is dead. We have only to consider the living.
這位年輕人已經(jīng)死了。我們只能考慮在生之人。
5. 艱難度日，勉強(qiáng)糊口（美國英語中作scrape out a living或scratch out a living）
If you say that someone scrapes a living or scratches a living, you mean that they manage to earn enough to live on, but it is very difficult. In American English, you say they scrape out a living or scratch out a living .
e.g. He almost manages to scrape a living as an artist.
他靠當(dāng)藝術(shù)家來勉強(qiáng)混口飯吃。
6. living proof -> see proof
in living memory -> see memory
the world owes them a living -> see world