2N-UNCOUNT 生活质量;生活素质;生活(方式) You use living when you are talking about the quality of people's daily lives. 生活质量;生活素质;生活(方式)
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
3ADJ [ADJ n]居住的;起居的 You use living to talk about the places where people relax when they are not working. 居住的;起居的
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。
4N-PLURAL 生者;活着的人们 The living are people who are alive, rather than people who have died. 生者;活着的人们
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。
5PHRASE [VERB inflects]艰难度日,勉强糊口(美国英语中作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 . 艰难度日,勉强糊口(美国英语中作scrape out a living或scratch out a living)
He almost manages to scrape a living as an artist.
他靠当艺术家来勉强混口饭吃。
6living proof→see: proof in living memory→see: memory the world owes them a living→see: world
Quotations
The living are the dead on holidayMaurice Maeterlinck