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

• 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。
• 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。
• I'll never live down this fiasco!
  我永远不会原谅这次惨败！
• 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。
• Club Valet said you live down the street.
  酒吧的人说你就住在街角。
• It is one you are still trying to live down.
  你现在还在努力淡忘这件事。
• 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。
• It will be difficult to live down this humiliation.
  这个耻辱忘掉是难以做到的。
• 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。
• 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！