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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I feel like I'll never live down being the partner of a dirty cop.
  我觉得我永远摆脱不了一个坏警察的搭档的身份。
• Club Valet said you live down the street.
  酒吧的人说你就住在街角。
• 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！
• 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。
• 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。
• It is one you are still trying to live down.
  你现在还在努力淡忘这件事。
• 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。