考研英语大纲常考词组短语 live down
释义:
live down 改正行为而使…被人遗忘
例句:
Assumed to have little potential, these children live down to their parents' expectations.
Although, of course, there are countless millions of upstanding mainlanders, the country does have a sorry commercial reputation to live down.
Divorced parents who met when they served at Arlington National Cemetery, they now live down the street from Fenton's teenage son and daughter.
In his story on page 110, Paul Klebnikov explains what Khodorkovsky is doing to live down his country's reputation for gangster capitalism.
Since Mr Ingraham's party came to power five years ago, the Bahamas has started to live down its reputation for corruption and mismanagement.
It's hard to remember now that, 40 years ago, Reagan had to live down his show business reputation to be viable in national politics.
VelociRFTA is being designed to be a convenient commuting option for the many thousands of workers who live down valley in the communities of Basalt, El Jebel, Carbondale, and Glenwood Springs.
The would-be unclogger of traffic jams will never live down his decision at the party conference last summer to be chauffeured 200 yards to protect his wife's hairdo from Bournemouth's winds.