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

• 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。
• She'll never let us live it down.
  她不会让我们好过的。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 thought I'd never live it down.
  我原以为大家永远都不会忘记这件事了。
• I'll never live down this fiasco!
  我永远不会原谅这次惨败！
• It will be difficult to live down this humiliation.
  这个耻辱忘掉是难以做到的。
• 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。
• 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。