俚语：Live something down/使人忘记(过去的过失)

　　定义：(usually used in the negative) to live and behave so as to cause others to forget a personal or disgrace or shameful misdeed of the past(通常用否定式)改过自新使别人忘记他过去不名誉或可耻的罪行

　　例句：Joan felt she could never live down the fact that she was an unwed mother.琼觉得它无法使别人忘记她是个未婚妈妈的事实。