jelentése:
elveihez tartja magát, kitart az elvei mellett
(to live or act in accordance with one's principles )
szinoníma:
stick to one's principles
- You should live up to your principles.
- It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. (Alfred Adler)
- He could not live up to his principles because he was a practical politician.
- Republican Party vows to stick to principles in new legislature.
live up to something = valamivel összhangban él, cselekszik
(to live or act in accordance with something)
(to live or act in accordance with something)
nehezebb példamondatok:
- Principles do not give us algorithms for living. They identify broad requirements we must live up to, but they do not actually tell us what to do.
- Christians have been urged to live up to the very core of Christian principles, to help address the problems of moral decadence that had engulfed the youth of today. (cikk)
- Every one of us has a role to play in the evolution of our planet, and to achieve world peace each of us must live up to our responsibilities and obligations.
