词组 | live |
释义 | live If you live in a particular place, it is your home. I have some friends who live in Wandsworth. I live in a flat just down the road from you. When you are simply saying that a place is someone's home, you do not use a continuous tense. You only use a continuous tense when you are saying that someone has just moved to a place, or that it is their home for a temporary period. Her husband had been released from prison and was now living at the house. Remember that you are living in someone else's home. We have to leave Ziatur, the town where we have been living. If you want to say how long you have been living in a place, you use for or since. You say, for example, 'I have been living here for four years', 'I have been living here since 1988', or 'I have lived here since 1988'. You do not say 'I am living here for four years' or 'I am living here since 1988'. He has been living in France now for almost two years. His wife and their youngest child have been living since May 29 on Cistern Key, a tiny island about 40 miles south of Nassau. She has lived there since she was six. See entries at ↑ ◊ 'leave' Do not confuse live with leave . If you leave a place, you go away from it. We will leave the town by the old road. See entry at ↑ |
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