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N-COUNT
生計；飯碗
The work that you do for a living is the work that you do in order to earn the money that you need.
例句
Father never talked about what he did for a living...
父親從不談他的謀生之道。
He earns his living doing all kinds of things.
他做各種各樣的活計來謀生。
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N-UNCOUNT
生活質量；生活素質；生活（方式）
You use living when you are talking about the quality of people's daily lives.
例句
Olivia has always been a model of healthy living.
奧利維婭一向是健康生活的楷模。
...the stresses of urban living.
城市生活的壓力
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ADJ
居住的；起居的
You use living to talk about the places where people relax when they are not working.
例句
The spacious living quarters were on the second floor...
寬敞的生活區(qū)位于3樓。
The study links the main living area to the kitchen.
書房把主要的生活區(qū)與廚房連在一起。
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N-PLURAL
生者；活著的人們
The living are people who are alive, rather than people who have died.
例句
The young man is dead. We have only to consider the living.
這位年輕人已經死了。我們只能考慮在生之人。
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PHRASE
艱難度日，勉強糊口（美國英語中作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 .
例句
He almost manages to scrape a living as an artist.
他靠當藝術家來勉強混口飯吃。