Tra từ alive - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

alive BrE [əˈlaɪv] NAmE [əˈlaɪv] adjective not before noun
1. living; not dead
• We don't know whether he's alive or dead.
• Is your mother still alive?
•Doctors kept the baby alive for six weeks.
•I was glad to hear you're alive and well.
•She had to steal food just to stay alive.
•He was buried alive in the earthquake.
2. ~ (with sth) full of emotion, excitement, activity, etc
•Ed was alive with happiness.
•Her eyes were alive with interest.
3. continuing to exist
•to keep a tradition alive
•Money from charities is keeping the theatre alive.
4. ~ with sth full of living or moving things
•The pool was alive with goldfish.
5. ~ to sth aware of sth; knowing sth exists and is important
•to be alive to the dangers/facts/possibilities
•The government should be alive to the problems faced by industry.
more at eat sb alive at ↑eat
Idioms: ↑alive and kicking ▪ ↑bring something alive ▪ ↑come alive

Word Origin:
Old English on līfe, literally ‘in life’.

Thesaurus:
alive [alive] adj.
•Is he alive or dead?
living • • live • |formal animate •
Opp: dead
a living/live animal/plant/bird
a living/live organism/creature
still alive/living
Alive, living or live? Alive is never used before a noun:
•all living things
✗ all alive things. Living can be used after be but is not usually used after other linking verbs:
•She stole just to stay alive.
✗ She stole just to stay living. Use living to talk about people/animals in a wide context:
•the finest living pianist (= out of all pianists alive today).
Use live to talk about a person or animals in a particular situation:
•I need to talk to a live person (= not a recorded message).

Example Bank:
•Doctors fought to keep her alive.
•Five people were found alive in the wreckage.
•For four days he seemed barely alive.
•He considered himself lucky to escape alive.
•He remained keenly alive to the dangers.
•His eyes were suddenly alive with excitement.
•I feel really alive in the country!
•I wasn't sure if he was still alive.
•It was a very narrow escape and we are lucky to be alive.
•Lost and so far from other human life, he faced a desperate struggle to stay alive.
•My mother is still alive and kicking.
•Poor child, she looks more dead than alive.
•She realized that she had only been half alive for the last four years.
•The art of debate is alive and well in our schools.
•The city comes alive at night.
•The hall was alive with the sound of voices.
•The old customs are still very much alive in this region.
•The old rascal is still very much alive.
•The people try to keep the old traditions alive.
•The police are desperate to catch this man dead or alive.
•The wealth of detail in his book really brings it alive.
•They had little chance of returning alive.
•He is very much alive to new ideas.
•I was glad to hear you're alive and well.
•Is your grandmother still alive?
•She had to steal food just to stay alive.
•They are alive to the fact that the opposing team has not lost a game this season.
•We don't know whether he's alive or dead.
•We're all alive to the dangers of an over-centralized state.