life
- IPA[lʌɪf]
英式
- the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death；living things and their activity
noun: life, plural noun: lives
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- n.名詞
- 1. the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death:
the origins of life
cats require visual experience during the first few weeks of life
- 2. living things and their activity:
lower forms of life
the ice-cream vendors were the only signs of life
- 3. the existence of an individual human being or animal:
a disaster that claimed the lives of 266 people
she didn't want to die; she loved life
- 4. a particular type or aspect of human existence:
his father decided to start a new life in California
a teacher will help you settle into school life
- 5. a biography:
a life of Shelley
- 6. (in Christianity and some other religious traditions) either of the two states of a person's existence separated by death:
he departed this life on 28 March 1912
- 7. (in Hinduism and some other religious traditions) any of a number of successive existences in which a soul is held to be reincarnated:
a spiritual pilgrimage into her past lives
- 8. a chance to live after narrowly escaping death (with reference to the nine lives traditionally attributed to cats):
we were called to the hospital, but the old rogue had nine lives and seemed to be negotiating for another two
- 9. (in various games) one of a specified number of chances each player has before being put out.
- 10. the period between the birth and death of a living thing, especially a human being:
she has lived all her life in the country
they became friends for life
- 11. the period during which something inanimate or abstract continues to exist, function, or be valid:
underlay helps to prolong the life of a carpet
- 12. a sentence of imprisonment for life.
- 13. vitality, vigour, or energy:
she was beautiful and full of life
- 14. (in art) the depiction of a subject from a real model, rather than from an artist's imagination:
the pose and clothing were sketched from life
plural form of life
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plural form of life
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- adj.serving or intended to save a person's life, especially from illness or injury:
- life-saving drugs
he is due to undergo a life-saving operation within weeks
- n.the action or process of saving another person's life, especially from drowning:
- Warren was involved in teaching generations of children swimming, personal survival, and life-saving
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n. the animals, especially the invertebrates, that live in ponds or stagnant water:
pupils can discover aspects of pond life for themselves
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n. a device made of buoyant or inflatable material, such as a life jacket, to keep someone afloat in water.
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n. the time taken for the radioactivity of a specified isotope to fall to half its original value:
iodine-131 has a half-life of 8.1 days
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n. the series of changes undergone by an organism during its lifetime.
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n. a painting or drawing of an arrangement of objects, typically including fruit and flowers and objects contrasting with these in texture, such as bowls and glassware:
a collector of Dutch and Flemish still lifes
still-life compositions
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片語
- be one's life
- do anything for a quiet life
- for dear life
- for the life of me
- frighten the life out of
- get a life
- give one's life for
- as large as life
- larger than life
- the life and soul of the party
- life is too short
- one's life's work
- lose one's life
- a matter of life and death
- not on your life
- save someone's life
- save one's own life
- see life
- take one's life in one's hands
- bring to life
- come to life
- take someone's life
- take one's own life
- that's life
- this is the life
- to the life
- to save one's life
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美式
- n.the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death:
- the origins of life
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知識+
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