"Aha!" he muttered, "glad you reminded me. When SHE'S stronger, she may enjoy catching our supper some afternoon. I must think of all the little things I can to liven her up so she won't get dull. It's curious how interested I am to know how she's got along and what she has for dinner. And to think that, less than a week ago, I used to hate to go near the house!"英文原著 · 《He Fell In Love With His Wife》
"I saw," he resumed more briskly, "fifteen or twenty--most amazing, sir!--young men, some of them not any older than I am, who had so many millions that they could easily--" he paused, casting about for some expression adequate--"could buy Kings Port and put it under a glass case in a museum--my aunts and all--and never know it!" He livened with disrespectful mirth over his own picture of his aunts, purchased by millionaire steel or coal for the purposes of public edification.英文原著 · 《Lady Baltimore》
"H--l" is his abbreviation for Hannibal. He had first used it in a title of a poem which a few years before, during one of Orion's absences, he had published in the paper. "To Mary in Hannibal" was too long to set as a display head in single column. The poem had no great merit, but under the abbreviated title it could hardly fail to invite notice. It was one of several things he did to liven up the circulation during a brief period of his authority.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 1》
Joe was looking drowsy. But, when Anderson took hold of him and placed the wounded finger on a block, and Dad faced him with the hammer and a blunt, rusty old chisel, he livened up.英文原著 · 《On Our Selection》
"When we made that noise things began to liven up. We heard a pattering up a side street, and here came General Mary Esperanza Dingo on a white horse with a couple of hundred brown boys following him in red undershirts and bare feet, dragging guns ten feet long. Jones and me had forgot all about General Mary and his promise to help us celebrate. We fired another salute and gave another yell, while the General shook hands with us and waved his sword.英文原著 · 《Roads of Destiny》
In virtue and in holy almes-deed They liven all, and ne'er asunder wend; Till death departeth them, this life they lead: And fare now well, my tale is at an end Now Jesus Christ, that of his might may send Joy after woe, govern us in his grace And keep us alle that be in this place.英文原著 · 《The Canterbury Tales》
Lady Grantham asked us to invite some younger guests to liven up the evening,美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
Our startup sources actors to parties to liven things up and get into conversations with guests and be interested in them.美剧 · 《Sillicon Valley》