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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• They know everything, and they let me live it down.
  他们对我一清二楚，让我改邪归正。
• 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。
• 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。
• But above all be grateful that no one will have to live down either your renown or your wealth.
  但是最应感谢的是，没有人必须靠着你的名誉或财产来生活。
• It will be difficult to live down this humiliation.
  这个耻辱忘掉是难以做到的。
• 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。