1.[u]生命the ability to breathe, grow, reproduce, etc. which people, animals and plants have before they die and which objects do not have
life and death生与死
The body was cold and showed no signs of life .那躯体冰凉，显现不出有生命的迹象。
My father died last year─I wish I could bring him back to life .去年我父亲逝世了，我要是能使他起死回生该多好啊。
In spring the countryside bursts into life.乡村在春天生机盎然。
2.[u][c]人命；性命；人的存活the state of being alive as a human; an individual person's existence
The floods caused a massive loss of life(= many people were killed) .洪水造成许多人丧生。
He risked his life to save his daughter from the fire.他冒着生命危险从火中救出他的女儿。
Hundreds of lives were threatened when the building collapsed.数百条性命在大楼垮塌时受到了威胁。
The operation saved her life .手术挽救了她的生命。
My grandfather lost his life(= was killed) in the war.我的祖父在战争中丧生。
Several attempts have been made on the President's life(= several people have tried to kill him) .已有数人试图谋杀总统。
3.[u]生物；活物living things
plant/animal life植物；动物
marine/pond life海洋╱池塘生物
Is there intelligent life on other planets?在其他星球上存在具有智力的生命吗？
4.[c][u]一生；终身；寿命；一生中的部分时间the period between sb's birth and their death; a part of this period
He's lived here all his life .他在这里住了一辈子了。
I've lived in England for most of my life.我大半生都住在英格兰。
to have a long/short life寿命长；寿命短
He became very weak towards the end of his life.他临终时很虚弱。
Brenda took up tennis late in life .布伦达在晚年打起网球来了。
He will spend the rest of his life(= until he dies) in a wheelchair.他将在轮椅上度过他的余生。
There's no such thing as a job for life any longer.不会再有像终身职位这样的事了。
She is a life member of the club.她是这个俱乐部的终身会员。
in early/adult life幼年；成年
5.[c]（某情景或工作的）一段生活经历a period of sb's life when they are in a particular situation or job
She has been an accountant all her working life .她在整个职业生涯中一直是会计师。
He met a lot of interesting people during his life as a student.他在学生时代接触过许多有趣的人。
They were very happy throughout their married life .他们婚后生活一直很幸福。
6.[c]存在期；（某物的）寿命；有效期the period of time when sth exists or functions
The International Stock Exchange started life as a London coffee shop.国际证券交易所起初就是伦敦的一家咖啡馆。
They could see that the company had a limited life(= it was going to close) .他们意识到公司的寿命不长了。
In Italy the average life of a government is eleven months.意大利每届政府的平均寿命是十一个月。
7.[u]无期徒刑；终身监禁the punishment of being sent to prison for life; life imprisonment
The judge gave him life .法官判他无期徒刑。
8.[u]生活经历the experience and activities that are typical of all people's existences
the worries of everyday life日常生活中的操心事
He is young and has little experience of life .他年轻，不谙世事。
Commuting is a part of daily life for many people.乘车上下班是许多人日常生活的一部分。
Jill wants to travel and see life for herself.吉尔想出去旅行，亲身体验一下生活。
We bought a dishwasher to make life easier .为使生活轻松些我们买了一台洗碗机。
In London life can be hard.在伦敦生活可能很艰苦。
In real life(= when she met him) he wasn't how she had imagined him at all.一见面才发现他完全不是她所想象的那样。
Life isn't like in the movies, you know.你知道，生活不像在电影里那样。
9.[u][c]（某种方式的）生活the activities and experiences that are typical of a particular way of living
country/city life乡村╱城市生活
She enjoyed political life.她喜欢政治生活。
family/married life家庭╱婚姻生活
How do you find life in Japan?你觉得日本的生活如何？
10.[c]个人生活；个人经历；个人生活某一方面的活动a person's experiences during their life; the activities that form a particular part of a person's life
He has had a good life .他一直过着优裕的生活。
a hard/an easy life艰难╱安逸舒适的生活
My day-to-day life is not very exciting.我的日常生活很平淡。
a life of luxury奢侈的生活
Her daily life involved meeting lots of people.她在日常生活中要接触很多人。
Many of these children have led very sheltered lives(= they have not had many different experiences) .这些儿童中很多人都是温室里的花朵。
They emigrated to start a new life in Canada.他们移居加拿大，开始了新的生活。
He doesn't like to talk about his private life .他不愿谈及他的私生活。
She has a full social life .她的社交活动非常频繁。
articles about the love lives of the stars有关明星爱情生活的文章
11.[u]活力；生命力；生气the quality of being active and exciting
This is a great holiday resort that is full of life .这里生气勃勃，是一个绝妙的度假胜地。
12.[u]（绘画的）模特儿，实物，实景a living model or a real object or scene that people draw or paint
She had lessons in drawing from life.她学了实物写生课程。
a life class(= one in which art students draw a naked man or woman)人体写生课
13.[c]生平事迹；传记a story of sb's life
She wrote a life of Mozart.她写了一部莫扎特的传记。
14.[c]（玩游戏者出局前几次机会中的）一次机会one of a set number of chances before a player is out of a game
He's lost two lives, so he's only got one left.他失去了两次机会，所以只剩下一次了。
HOW much golden leisure can you expect at the end of your working life?
在你工作生活即将结束之时，你预期还有多长的黄金休闲时光呢？
I'm glad I went back to India, and I'm glad to be back in the U. S. Life has come full circle but the center has shifted.
我庆幸回过印度，也很庆幸又回到了美国。生活就是一个圆，只是圆心在变。
Somebody just handed me a sandwhich! Thankyou. Let me tell you, life doesn't get better than this.
刚有人给了我个三明治！谢谢。跟你们说，生活这样才带劲啊！
Her life ended December 18, 1992 with a great feeling in her heart that she had changed people's lives.
克莱拉于1992年12月18日离开人世，去世时她怀抱着改变了人们生活的满足感。
A time came when the king finally got tired of himself and of life, and he began to seek a way out.
有一天，国王终于对自己的这种性格厌倦了，他想下决心改掉它。
Each time, see you, will you get the little bit of success and happy to see you very happy life, I would be very much pleased.
每一次，见到你，都会为你取得的点点滴滴的成绩而高兴，见到你生活的很幸福，我会感到很欣慰。
It was an exhausting summer and made me anxious to return to my relatively easy life at college.
这样夏季过完时我已经疲惫不堪，盼望着开学后回到轻松一点的大学生活。
By an accident of history, we in the West have evolved a culture that separates man's spiritual life from his institutional life.
由于历史的一次偶然事件，在我们西方出现了一种把人的精神生活与机关团体生活分隔的文化。
Kutcher is so good now at what he does, "My whole goal in life was that maybe I'd make a million someday, " Kutcher says.
“库奇现在做得很好，”我生活中的目标是，也许我总有一天会赚一百万，库奇说。
Parents, like the warm streams, gently float the boat of our life and slowly drift it to the bank of maturity.
父母就像温暖的溪流，温柔地托浮著我们的生命之舟，缓缓地将它推送到成熟的彼岸。
two people were familiar with, and then learn more and had to break up . . . . . . If it is not greedy, so that life should be able to it?
两个人因熟悉而结合，然后了解多了，不得不分手……如果不是太贪心，这样的人生应该是可以了？
The two letters were a blip on the intelligentsia's cardiogram, which had been showing few signs of life.
这两封信是知识分子心电图上的一条线，它显示出生命迹象微弱。
The speech landed the young star in LIFE Magazine and made her a spokeswoman for her generation in the eyes of the media.
该演说让她进入了生活杂志（LIFEMagazine）并使她成为媒体眼中美国新生一代的代言人。
Speaking of his own creation of this style of the time, Miyake life, said: "It is an experiment, as well as a risk. "
在谈到他自己创立的这种风格的时候，三宅一生说：“那是个实验，也是个冒险。”
It would be happier to live all by my self than fight with a man for one same thing all the rest of my life.
自己一个人生活比用尽余生和一个人为同一个目标奋斗来的更为开心，快乐。
For a while, I felt that life was unfair and wished that this terrible thing had never ever happened.
有一段时间，我甚至觉得生活太不公平了，还妄想这样糟糕的事情根本未曾发生。
Look on the positive side: it's just a matter of removing the Cabal's power structure and restoring human life to its full potential.
看向这积极的一面：清理阴谋集团并且恢复人类生活的全部潜力是迟早的事情。
White particles which appeared on the surface of beans and the wall of bottles, during the shelf life of broad bean paste were investigated.
成品蚕豆酱随着货架期的延长，在豆瓣表面及其瓶壁上会出现一些乳白色硬质圆粒状小点，有时呈较大的片状结构。
At the time art was no longer as dependent on politics as that of 1949 to 1976, but had its own truly independent life.
应该说，艺术发展在这个阶段硕果累累，因为艺术不再像1949至1976年那样依附于政治，而是拥有了自己真正的独立生命。
If I can choose, I will use the rest of my life with you for a brief encounter with life, full of happiness, and then vanish do not see.
如果我可以选择，我愿意再用我余生的时光换一场与你的短暂相遇，携一生幸福满满，然后转瞬消失不见。
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