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

• They know everything, and they let me live it down.
  他们对我一清二楚，让我改邪归正。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• After making such a big mistake, Melanie wondered how she would ever live it down.
  犯了这么大的错误之后，梅拉尼不知如何补救才好。
• It is one you are still trying to live down.
  你现在还在努力淡忘这件事。
• 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。
• I'll never live down this fiasco!
  我永远不会原谅这次惨败！
• As soon as I live down, I became fast asleep.
  我一躺下来就迅速睡着了。