living

noun

1. the experience of being alive
the course of human events and activities

e.g. he could no longer cope with the complexities of life

Synonym: life

2. people who are still living

e.g. save your pity for the living

3. the financial means whereby one lives

e.g. each child was expected to pay for their keep
he applied to the state for support
he could no longer earn his own livelihood

Synonym: supportkeeplivelihoodbread and buttersustenance

4. the condition of living or the state of being alive

e.g. while there's life there's hope
life depends on many chemical and physical processes

Synonym: animationlifealiveness

adj

1. (informal) absolute

e.g. she is a living doll
scared the living daylights out of them
beat the living hell out of him

2. still in active use

e.g. a living language

3. still in existence

e.g. the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil
the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania

Synonym: surviving

4. true to life
lifelike

e.g. the living image of her mother

5. pertaining to living persons

e.g. within living memory

1. 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.

e.g. Father never talked about what he did for a living...
父亲从不谈他的谋生之道。
e.g. He earns his living doing all kinds of things.
他做各种各样的活计来谋生。

2. 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.

e.g. Olivia has always been a model of healthy living.
奥利维娅一向是健康生活的楷模。
e.g. ...the stresses of urban living.
城市生活的压力

3. 居住的；起居的
You use living to talk about the places where people relax when they are not working.

e.g. The spacious living quarters were on the second floor...
宽敞的生活区位于3楼。
e.g. The study links the main living area to the kitchen.
书房把主要的生活区与厨房连在一起。

4. 生者；活着的人们
The living are people who are alive, rather than people who have died.

e.g. The young man is dead. We have only to consider the living.
这位年轻人已经死了。我们只能考虑在生之人。

5. 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 .

e.g. He almost manages to scrape a living as an artist.
他靠当艺术家来勉强混口饭吃。

6. living proof -> see proof
in living memory -> see memory
the world owes them a living -> see world

1. 生活：也不知道(knowledge)是怎么回事,这几天做事总心不在焉的 生活(living)了多年的地方(place),居然也会出现(appearance)乌龙事件(occurrence),而且还是在天天都用得上的浴室(bathroom)里出现!

2. living是什么意思

2. 生计：一张地图的完成代表在地化的知识、行动与责任的投入」,这正符合社会学习领域要整合「人的生存(survival)、生计(living)、生活(life)与生命(existence)四大层面」的基本理念,

3. living的意思

3. 活着的：此外,不少人把非生物的环境和无机环境当作同意词使用,为了避免这种混乱,限定生物环境是指活着的(living)生物,非生物环境是指所有无生命的(non-living)东西.