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

• Be grateful that you do not have to live down the renown of a father nor the wealth of an uncle.
  你应该感谢，因为你不必靠着父亲的名望或伯叔的财产来生活。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• They know everything, and they let me live it down.
  他们对我一清二楚，让我改邪归正。
• 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。
• 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。
• She'll never let us live it down.
  她不会让我们好过的。
• 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。
• 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。