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

• My son has taken up with the Jones boys who live down the road.
  我儿子与住在路那一头的琼斯家的男孩子们很要好。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Have you heard of Little Rock, Arkansas? My parents live down there.
  你知道阿肯色州的小石城吗？我的父母就住在那边。
• My parents live down in worcestershire, but they come uptolondonoccasionally.
  我的父母住在伍斯特郡，但他们有时来伦敦。
• I'll never live down this fiasco!
  我永远不会原谅这次惨败！
• After his release from prison, he vowed to live down his crimes.
  他从狱中被释放以后，便发誓要改过自新。
• It will be difficult to live down this humiliation.
  这个耻辱忘掉是难以做到的。
• He hopes to live down the scandal caused by the divorce proceedings.
  他希望借新的生活忘却那因离婚而引起的丑闻。