alive/animate/living.导航词义：活着的

1. alive:adj. 活着的.指相对死亡而言的，通常作表语，且不可用 very 修饰，应用 much 或 very much，作定语时须置于被修饰名词后面。

He is still alive.

他还活着。（意为他本来有死的可能，但没有死）

She is one of the greatest women still alive.

她是现今依然活着的最伟大的女人之一。

2. animate:adj. 有生命的，有生气的.指相对石头、机器等无生命体而言的。

animate beings

生物

The tiger lay so still that it scarcely seemed animate.

那只老虎躺着一动不动，简直不像活的。

3. living:adj. 活着的，健在的.指“在某某时候是活着的”，用于修饰有生命的人或物，既可作表语，也可作定语。

Other living beings might exist in outer space.

外层空间也许有其他生物存在。

He is one among the living men.

他是那些活着的人之一。

试比较：

Old Tom is still living.

老汤姆依然活着。（强调继续生存下去）

Old Tom is lucky to be alive.

老汤姆能活着实属幸运。（强调没有死去）

全部

1·They have an au pair living in.

他们有个换工姑娘住在家里。《牛津词典》

2·Whereabouts are you living?

你居住的确切地点是哪里？《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·Where are you living now?

你现在住在哪里？《牛津词典》

4·He's still living with his parents.

他还和父母住在一起。《牛津词典》

5·He had two tenants living with him.

他有两个房客与他同住。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

6·She's living in hall(s).

她住在学生宿舍。《牛津词典》

7·We are living in a consumer culture.

我们生活在一种消费文化之中。《牛津词典》

8·Their standard of living is very low.

他们的生活水平很低。《牛津词典》

9·The cost of living has risen sharply.

生活费用已急剧上涨。《牛津词典》

10·We're living apart now.

我们现在不住在一起。《牛津词典》

生活

1·We are living in a consumer culture.

我们生活在一种消费文化之中。《牛津词典》

2·The cost of living has risen sharply.

生活费用已急剧上涨。《牛津词典》

3·Their standard of living is very low.

他们的生活水平很低。《牛津词典》

4·They were living in subhuman conditions.

他们生活在非人的条件下。《牛津词典》

5·He was out of work and living in squalor.

他失业了，生活在脏乱不堪的环境中。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

居住

1·Whereabouts are you living?

你居住的确切地点是哪里？《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·I like the idea of living on a boat.

我喜欢在船上居住的建议。《牛津词典》

3·I have never contemplated living abroad.

我从未考虑过去国外居住。《牛津词典》

4·Are there many people living in the outback?

有很多人居住在澳大利亚的偏远地区吗？《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·Once again he had to readjust to living alone.

他又一次不得不重新适应单独居住。《牛津词典》

活生生

1·That's a living child, I said in a shaking voice, pointing at the slops pail.

“但是那是一个活生生的孩子啊！”我指着那溺死女婴的桶，声音颤抖地说道。

2·Industrial pollution in our town had supposedly turned students into living science experiments breathing in a laboratory's worth of heavy metals like manganese, chromium and nickel each day.

我们镇上的工业污染应该已经把学生们变成了活生生的科学实验品，他们每天都要吸入相当于实验室含量的锰、铬和镍等重金属。

3·For them, history did nothing, it possessed no immense wealth nor waged battles: It is man, real, living man who does all that.

对他们来说，历史是无辜的，它没有带来巨大的财富，也没有发动战争：“这一切都是人，真实的、活生生的人带来的。”

4·Here is a living history, which looks beyond what we already know about exploration: a larger history in which we come to recognise the contribution of everyone involved.

这是一段活生生的历史，它超越了我们已知的探索：一段更大的历史，在这段历史中，我们开始认识到每个参与者的贡献。

5·But I need living companions, who will follow me because they want to follow themselves — and to the place where I will.

但我需要的活生生的伙伴，他们之所以追随我，是因为他们自愿追随——而且随我走到我想要去的地方。

生计

1·That forced peasant farmers to try to eke a living off steep hillsides.

那迫使农民要靠在陡峭的山坡上来勉强维持生计。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Shortly after Roger went to college in 1974, he formed a rock band that was good enough to make a living from playing clubs in Hot Springs and Little Rock.

1974年罗杰上大学后不久，他组织了一个有水准的摇滚乐队，凭着在温泉城和小石城的俱乐部里演出，他可以维持生计。

3·Land once incompatible with row-crop agriculture, but which provided a living to ranching families and habitat for prairie wildlife, is being converted to row crops.

根本不适合行栽作物的土地被转作行载作物，而那是牧场家庭的生计和草原野生动物的栖息地。

4·All lawyers exploit other's unnecessary problems for their living.

大多的律师为了他们的生计给别人找不必要的问题。

5·Later, once the advancing deserts were halted, smallholders started harvesting and selling lumber for a living, while keeping the sheltering greenbelts in place.

后来，治沙取得成功，小农开始以采收和销售木材作为生计，同时维护绿色防护带。

生活方式

1·We plan meal times instead of eating when we are hungry. We go on diets instead of living healthy.

我们计划着用餐时间，却不在肚子饿的时候吃饭，我们节食却没有健康的生活方式。

2·As I was thinking about this opportunity and what to write I thought back to the whole reason that I am now doing what I am doing for a living.

当我就发表这篇文章的机会进行思考，并想应写点什么的时候，我回忆起促使我选择现在这种生活方式的原因。

3·But the report argued that the number of converts sucked into extremism represented a very small minority and said most converts saw their religion as perfectly compatible with living in Britain.

但研究报告声称，陷入极端主义的皈依者属于“极少数”，并称大部分皈依者认为，新信仰同英国本土生活方式“完全兼容”。

4·I may pay off some mortgages on behalf of my family, but I'd probably just bank the rest, and keep working and living exactly the same as right now.

我将代表我的家人还了贷款，但是我或许只会把剩下的存入银行然后继续保持我现有的生活方式。

5·So, you need both a healthy diet and a healthy living.

因此，你需要的是一个健康的饮食外加一个健康的生活方式。

(1)living environment生活环境

(1)living room客厅，起居室

(1)living standard生活水平，生活标准

(1)standard of living生活水平；生活标准

(1)living space生存空间；居住面积

(1)make a living谋生，维持生活