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

• 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。
• Have you heard of Little Rock, Arkansas? My parents live down there.
  你知道阿肯色州的小石城吗？我的父母就住在那边。
• It is one you are still trying to live down.
  你现在还在努力淡忘这件事。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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。
• 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 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。
• They know everything, and they let me live it down.
  他们对我一清二楚，让我改邪归正。
• 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。