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I was reading an explanation online regarding the difference between いつも, いつでも
and いつまでも. At the bottom of the article there was this sentence, which seems
to be taken from a banner ad:

> いつまでも美しくいるために

And here the translation taken from the article:

> (in order) to be beautiful forever

I understand the meaning of いつまでも here, but I can't figure out the meaning of
美しくいる. I would translate it as "be in a beautiful way", which doesn't make
much sense. Is there another meaning or it is just impossible to translate it
literally?
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grammar meaning verbs adjectives adverbs
Use of adverb with いる
If I have guessed right, you are somewhat confused by the ambiguity of English
_be_.

_Be_ itself is a verb that has a meaning when you say "I think, therefore I
am". Meanwhile it has another usage as almost meaningless bridge between words
in a case like "I am Sam". And English adjectives need the aid of the latter
(copula) _be_ to correctly inflect, which Japanese i-adjectives dispense with.

Along this line of thinking, 美しくいる should grammatically correspond to English
"be being beautiful", and of course the two "be"s have different meanings, so
more precisely "exist being beautiful". But I doubt any English speaker say in
this way. They'd instead verbalize it "remain beautiful" or "keep (oneself)
beautiful", or in some appropriate contexts, just "be beautiful".
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> I can't figure out the meaning of 美しくいる

It's the second meaning of いる here:

[居る](https://www.edrdg.org/cgi-bin/wwwjdic/wwwjdic?1MDJ%B5%EF%A4%EB) "to
stay".
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