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

• Beaten by the worst team in the league? They'll never live it down!
  让联赛中最差劲的队打败了？这是永远也忘不了的事！
• 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。
• Joan felt she could never live down the fact that she was an unwed mother.
  琼觉得它无法使别人忘记她是个未婚妈妈的事实。
• 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。
• 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。
• I'll never live down this fiasco!
  我永远不会原谅这次惨败！
• I "m afraid I" ll never live down that tactless remark I made.
  恐怕我永远也没办法改正我那不谨慎的评价了。
• 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。
• 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。