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

• 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！
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• A farewell to a life out of the plan left the hospital, B to live down.
  甲列了一张告别人生的计划表离开了医院，乙住了下来。
• 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。
• She'll never let us live it down.
  她不会让我们好过的。
• 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。
• No way! I'd never live it down if my friends saw me working there.
  我才不愿呢！要是被朋友看到我在加油站打工，我就没脸活下去了。
• 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。