单词 | come alive |
释义 | come alivecome alive a) INTERESTINGif a subject or event comes alive, it becomes interesting and seems real 变得兴味盎然;生动起来 Hopefully, we can make history come alive for the children. 希望我们可以让孩子感到历史是生动的。 b) HAPPYINTERESTEDif someone comes alive, they suddenly become happy and interested in what is happening 精神一振 She only came alive when she sat down at the piano. 她一坐在钢琴旁就精神起来。 c) BUSY PLACEif a town, city etc comes alive, it becomes busy 〔城镇等〕热闹起来;变得繁忙 seaside resorts that come alive in the summer 夏季变得热闹的海滨度假胜地 Examples from the Corpus come alive• There were voices outside as the train came alive.• Hodges' stories make history come alive.• In Great Groups, talent comes alive.• The streets come alive after dark.• Jane Austen's ironies came alive, and the ellipses in Virginia Woolf's prose started to speak.• Cabral looks at the clay and her face comes alive as she begins to shape it.• As I began to research the background and archaeology of those places, the book came alive in a different way.• And the defense came alive in the second half.• For most people such details might be rather boring, but Robertson makes the narrative come alive through the personalities.• The walls come alive with foaming beer and music surrounds them as the audience journeys upward in a can of Guinness.• By night, the Landing comes alive with jazz and the blues. → come alive at alive(1) |
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