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.- 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。 - 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。
- Labour was also unable to live down its reputation as the party of high taxes...
英英释义
verb
- live so as to annul some previous behavior
- You can never live this down!
双语例句
- Beaten by the worst team in the league? They'll never live it down!
让联赛中最差劲的队打败了?这是永远也忘不了的事! - I'll never live down this fiasco!
我永远不会原谅这次惨败! - She'll never let us live it down.
她不会让我们好过的。 - John is still trying to live down the excitement he caused when he broke the window.
约翰还在努力使人忘记他打碎了窗子时所造成的骚动。 - It is one you are still trying to live down.
你现在还在努力淡忘这件事。 - 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。 - 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。 - Club Valet said you live down the street.
酒吧的人说你就住在街角。 - 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。 - I "m afraid I" ll never live down that tactless remark I made.
恐怕我永远也没办法改正我那不谨慎的评价了。