1 N-COUNT [usually singular] 生计;饭碗 The work that you do for a living is the work that you do in order to earn the money that you need. 生计;饭碗
SYN livelihood, work, job, maintenance
2 N-UNCOUNT 生活质量;生活素质;生活(方式) You use living when you are talking about the quality of people's daily lives. 生活质量;生活素质;生活(方式)
3 ADJ [ADJ n] 居住的;起居的 You use living to talk about the places where people relax when they are not working. 居住的;起居的
4 N-PLURAL 生者;活着的人们 The living are people who are alive, rather than people who have died. 生者;活着的人们
5 PHRASE [VERB inflects] 艰难度日,勉强糊口(美国英语中作scrape out a living或scratch out a living) If you say that someone scrapes a living or scratches a living, you mean that they manage to earn enough to live on, but it is very difficult. In American English, you say they scrape out a living or scratch out a living . 艰难度日,勉强糊口(美国英语中作scrape out a living或scratch out a living)
6 living proof→see: proof in living memory→see: memory the world owes them a living→see: world
Quotations
The living are the dead on holiday Maurice Maeterlinck
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