live down

英 [lɪv daʊn]

美 [lɪv daʊn]

使人们忘记（错误、失败、恶名等）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 使人们忘记（错误、失败、恶名等）
  If you are unable tolive downa mistake, failure, or bad reputation, you are unable to make people forget about it.
  1. Labour was also unable to live down its reputation as the party of high taxes...
     工党也无法让人忘记其高税党的名声。
  2. I thought I'd never live it down.
     我原以为大家永远都不会忘记这件事了。

英英释义

verb

• live so as to annul some previous behavior
  1. You can never live this down!
  Synonym:unlive

双语例句

• My parents live down in worcestershire, but they come uptolondonoccasionally.
  我的父母住在伍斯特郡，但他们有时来伦敦。
• He hopes to live down the scandal caused by the divorce proceedings.
  他希望借新的生活忘却那因离婚而引起的丑闻。
• I suppose it is odd that we live down here like this.
  我们跑这儿来待着大概挺怪异的。
• All the girls in my class are going except me! I'll never live it down!
  除了我以外，我班上的其他女生全都去了！我永远也无法主从前忘掉这件事！
• I feel like I'll never live down being the partner of a dirty cop.
  我觉得我永远摆脱不了一个坏警察的搭档的身份。
• I can't drive you home because I only live just down the road.
  我不能开车送你回家，因为我就住在路的那头。
• A farewell to a life out of the plan left the hospital, B to live down.
  甲列了一张告别人生的计划表离开了医院，乙住了下来。
• After his release from prison, he vowed to live down his crimes.
  他从狱中被释放以后，便发誓要改过自新。
• As soon as I live down, I became fast asleep.
  我一躺下来就迅速睡着了。
• Born in 1944 and raised on a walnut ranch in Modesto, California, the young Mr Lucas had no evident qualification to live down or move beyond that humbly named home town.
  他出生于1944年，在加利福尼亚州莫德斯托（Modesto）的一处核桃园农场上长大，年轻时的卢卡斯并未明显展现出能使他定居在或者走出籍籍无名的家乡小镇的特质。