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

• She'll never let us live it down.
  她不会让我们好过的。
• My son has taken up with the Jones boys who live down the road.
  我儿子与住在路那一头的琼斯家的男孩子们很要好。
• 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。
• John is still trying to live down the excitement he caused when he broke the window.
  约翰还在努力使人忘记他打碎了窗子时所造成的骚动。
• As soon as I live down, I became fast asleep.
  我一躺下来就迅速睡着了。
• 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。
• No way! I'd never live it down if my friends saw me working there.
  我才不愿呢！要是被朋友看到我在加油站打工，我就没脸活下去了。
• I don't think I could live down here all the time.
  我认为我不能始终都住在这里。
• After making such a big mistake, Melanie wondered how she would ever live it down.
  犯了这么大的错误之后，梅拉尼不知如何补救才好。
• 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。