新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

life

英 [laɪf]

[NOUN]

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NOUN. 名词

lives
1. [U 不可数名词] 生命
Life is the quality which people, animals, and plants have when they are not dead, and which objects and substances do not have.
双语例句
例：
a baby's first minutes of life.
婴儿生命的头几分钟。
例：
Amnesty International opposes the death penalty as a violation of the right to life.
大赦国际组织反对死刑，因其侵犯生存权。
2. [U 不可数名词] 生物 , 生命
You can use life to refer to things or groups of things which are alive.
双语例句
例：
Is there life on Mars?
火星上有生命吗？
3. [C 可数名词] 生存 , 性命
If you refer to someone's life, you mean their state of being alive, especially when there is a risk or danger of them dying.
双语例句
例：
Your life is in danger.
你有生命危险。
例：
A nurse began to try to save his life.
一名护士开始设法抢救他。
4. [C 可数名词] 一生
Someone's life is the period of time during which they are alive.
双语例句
例：
He spent the last fourteen years of his life in retirement.
他生命中的最后14年退休在家。
5. [C 可数名词] 人生阶段 , 生涯
You can use life to refer to a period of someone's life when they are in a particular situation or job.
双语例句
例：
Interior designers spend their working lives keeping up to date with the latest trends.
室内设计者们把他们的职业生涯都花在追赶最新潮流上。
6. [C 可数名词] 生活
You can use life to refer to particular activities which people regularly do during their lives.
双语例句
例：
My personal life has had to take second place to my career.
我不得不将我的个人生活放在事业之后。
7. [U 不可数名词] （特定的）生活
You can use life to refer to the things that people do and experience that are characteristic of a particular place, group, or activity.
双语例句
例：
How did you adjust to college life?
你是怎么适应大学生活的？
例：
He abhors the wheeling-and-dealing associated with conventional political life.
他憎恶传统政治生活中的尔虞我诈。
8. [U 不可数名词] 活力
A person, place, book, or film that is full of life gives an impression of excitement, energy, or cheerfulness.
双语例句
例：
The town itself was full of life and character.
这座城镇本身就充满了活力和个性。
9. [U 不可数名词] 终身监禁
If someone is sentenced to life, they are sentenced to stay in prison for the rest of their life or for a very long time.
双语例句
例：
He could get life in prison, if convicted.
他会遭终身监禁，如果罪名成立的话。
10. [C 可数名词] （机器、组织或项目的）寿命
The life of something such as a machine, organization, or project is the period of time that it lasts for.
双语例句
例：
The repairs did not increase the value or the life of the equipment.
这些维修既没有增加设备的价值，也没有延长它的寿命。

PHRASE. 习语

bring something to life , come to life
1. 带来生机 , 使变得生动
If you bring something to life or if it comes to life, it becomes interesting or exciting.
双语例句
例：
The cold, hard cruelty of two young men is vividly brought to life in this true story.
两个年轻人的冷漠和残忍在这个真实的故事里被生动地表现了出来。
come to life , spring to life , roar into life
1. （机器或车辆）突然开动
You can use expressions such as to come to life, to spring to life, and to roar into life to indicate that a machine or vehicle suddenly starts working or moving.
双语例句
例：
To his great relief the engine came to life.
让他松一口气的是，引擎突然发动起来了。
fight for one's life
1. 挣扎在死亡线上
If you say that someone is fighting for their life, you mean that they are in a very serious condition and may die as a result of an accident or illness.
双语例句
例：
a horrifying robbery that left a man fighting for his life.
一场导致一人生命垂危的恐怖抢劫。
for life
1. 终身
For life means for the rest of a person's life.
双语例句
例：
He was jailed for life in 1966 for the murder of three policemen.
1966年，他由于杀害了3名警察而被终身监禁。
例：
She may have been scarred for life.
她可能已受到终身难以愈合的创伤。
take someone's life
1. 杀死某人
If someone takes another person's life, they kill them. If someone takes their own life, they kill themselves.
双语例句
例：
Before execution, he admitted to taking the lives of at least 35 more women.
在赴死刑前，他承认了还杀死过另外至少35名妇女。