[英文] 如果我想講一句「為生存而活」,英文要點講??

2007-09-13 5:45 am
如果我想講一句「為生存而活」,英文要點講??

可唔可以用 make a living??

如果唔係既話..

句英文應該係點

我想愈短愈好

回答 (3)

2007-09-13 6:42 pm
✔ 最佳答案
"make a living" 只是說出搵食,為了生計,沒有 「為生存而活」的意思。

上面有位建議用 Just to make a living. 但這句只是多了 "只是" 的意思,也是說不出 「為生存而活」的意思。

你是否想說,為了生存而活,生存的意思?

你可說: "to live for living's sake"

關於"to live for living's sake"有7項搜尋結果,


In you the vile desire to live for living's sake will soon be dead, if it is not dead already. Your soul, drawn strongly upward to other spheres, is well nigh loosed from love of life and fear of death. If at this moment you could lie ...
infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/ dirs/1/3/3/4/13340/13340.htm - 465k -

你也可說:"just to stay alive" 只是想活

約有77,200項符合"just to stay alive" 的查詢結果,


Now they were fighting just to stay alive as the convoy wandered into one ambush after another, trying to find its way back to base. Up in a humvee turret and behind a Mark 19, a machine gun grenade launcher, Spec. ...
inquirer.philly.com/packages/ somalia/nov30/default30.asp - 30k -

又可以說:

"to stay alive in order to live"

My question is: How did Jewish children manage to stay alive in order to live in the ghetto and take Hebrew classes? I suspect that the Nazis wouldn't have spared these children for their own purposes, so why did they remain alive after ...
www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/nesvizh/nbofn.html - 28k -

又可以說:

to live in order to stay alive.

The pests in your house need food, water and a place to live in order to stay alive. By making. it harder for pests to find these things, you can keep pests out of your home. You will also. decrease your need to use pesticides. ...
www.cetonline.org/Home/Health/Pests.pdf -

視乎你想說的是甚麼意思。



2007-09-13 6:17 am
你已然掌握了大部份的重點了。只需加上Just to便足夠。
Just to make a living.「為生存而活」

2007-09-12 22:18:27 補充:
已然 should be 已經 (typing mistake)
參考: my 40 years experience with foreigners
2007-09-13 5:50 am
Live for being alive.


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