live=活着，breathe=呼吸，那live and breathe是什么意思呢？别理解错了哦

【朗读以下例句，并用今日表达造句】

Ever since high school, I've been living and breathing literature.

There’s no way we can even think about traveling to Europe this year, as we are living from hand to mouth.

He is a typical workaholic — he lives for his work.

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live and breathe sth

热衷于某事

【解释】

If you say that someone lives and breathes a particular subject or activity, you are emphasizing that they are extremely enthusiastic about it.

【例句】

Ever since high school, I've been living and breathing literature.

从中学开始，我就一直对文学非常感兴趣。

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live from hand to mouth

勉强糊口；勉强度日

【解释】

To be extremely poor, having only enough money to provide food and shelter each month.

【例句】

There’s no way we can even think about traveling to Europe this year, as we are living from hand to mouth.

今年去欧洲旅游想都不要想，因为咱们只能勉强度日。

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live by doing sth 以......谋生/为生

live for sb/sth 为......而活

【解释】

1. to earn money or to get the things you need by doing a particular thing

2.to think that sb/sth is the main purpose of or the most important thing in your life

【例句】

He is a typical workaholic — he lives for his work.

他是个典型的工作狂，他为工作而活。

After his wife died, he had nothing to live for.

他妻子去世之后，他没了生活的目标。