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    life查询结果如下:

    音标:[laɪf]
    名词复数:lifes 词频:高频常用词

    基本释义/说明:n.生命;生活
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    a.
    ①[U]生命;
    political life
    政治生命.
    The life processes continue until death.
    生命的进程持续到死.
    People,animals and plants have life.
    人,动物,植物都有生命.
    Comrade Liu Hulan gave her young life for the cause of the liberation of the Chinese people.
    刘胡兰同志为中国人民的解放事业献出了年轻的生命.
    ②[U]生物(总称)(包括动植物和人);
    animal and plant life
    动植物.
    Is there any life on the moon?
    月球上有生物吗?
    ③[U]人生;处世;
    begin life as a weaver
    开始纺织工人的人生.
    success in life
    人生的成功.
    Life is sweet.
    人生是美妙的.
    Life is not all fun.
    人生并不总是享乐.
    ④[U]生存;
    the struggle for life
    生存竞争.
    The battle was won,but only with great loss of life.
    那一战役虽说打赢了,可是伤亡惨重.
    ⑤[C]性命;
    Five lives were lost in the flood.
    洪水中有五人丧命.
    They say a cat has nine lives.
    据说猫有九条性命.
    ⑥[C](人等的)寿命;(机器等使用的)年限;(合同,契约等生效的)期限;
    life assurance(insurance)
    人寿保险.
    expectation of life
    人寿保险中同一年龄的平均寿命.
    the average life of a nation
    国民的平均寿命.
    the life of a government
    政府的寿命.
    the life of an artificial satellite
    人造卫星的寿命.
    the life of a lease
    租约的有效期限.
    the life of a machine(a steamship)
    机器(轮船)使用的年限.
    A long,long life to sb = Wish sb a long,long life!
    祝某人健康长寿!
    ⑦[C]一生,生涯;
    sb`s political life
    某人的政治生涯.
    the happiest experience(I have ever had)in one`s(my) life
    (我)一生中(所经受的)最愉快的经历.
    devote one`s life to the study of Marxism-Leninism
    一生献身于马列主义的研究.
    spend one`s life in idleness life
    虚度一生.
    He has lived in Beijing all his life.
    他一辈子都住在北京.
    Hers is a life of struggle.
    她的一生是战斗的一生.
    I had been a coward all my life.
    我一生胆小.
    ⑧[C]生活;
    high(low) life
    上(下)层生活.
    the American(the rotten bourgeois)way of life
    美国(腐朽资产阶级)的生活方式.
    live(lead)a happy(hard,poor) life
    过着幸福(艰苦,穷困)的生活.
    How is your life in your school?
    你在学校生活得好吗?
    Some people have(enjoy)easy lives.
    有些人享受舒适生活.
    That`s the life for me.
    那是我向往的生活.
    Which do you prefer,(a)country life or(a)town life?
    你喜欢乡村生活还是城市生活?
    ⑨[C]【法】无期徒刑;
    be doing life
    正服无期徒刑(正为无期徒刑坐牢).
    get life = be given life
    判无期徒刑.
    ⑩[U]活力,生气;饱满的精神;
    be full of life
    充满活力(生气勃勃).
    give(add) life to sth
    给某物增添生气.
    put more life into sb`s work
    工作上打起精神.
    There were signs of life in the forest as the sun rose.
    太阳出来时,森林中显示出一派生机.
    He was tired but spoke with much life.
    虽然他疲倦了,可是讲起话来却显得非常精神.
    ⑾[U]世面,阅历;
    a diplomatist who does see life
    阅历极广的外交家.
    see much(nothing)of life
    见过很多(没见过)世面.
    You`ll never see life if you stay at home for ever.
    要是你老呆在家里,你就不可能见世面。
    ⑿[U](生活中的)兴趣,乐趣;
    His study of wild birds is his life.
    他把研究野鸟作为生活中的乐趣.
    ⒀[U]社交活动;
    There is not much life in our small village.
    在我们小小的村子里没有很多社交活动.
    ⒁[C]传记;
    The Life of Samule Johnson
    撒姆尔·约翰逊传.
    write a new life of Newton(Shakespeare)
    写一部牛顿(莎士比亚)新传.
    Do you enjoy reading the lives of great men?
    你喜欢读伟人传记吗?
    ⒂美术家用来写生或雕塑的模特儿(包括人体,实物,模型等);
    a life class
    (美术学校)人体写生课.
    a life drawing
    实物写生画.
    a portrait(picture)taken from(the) life
    以人体为模特儿的画像.
    ⒃[C](大难后)生命的新开端;新机会;
    The batsman was given a life.
    板球击球员获得一新的击球机会.
    ⒄[定语]终身的;生命的;
    a life annuity
    终身养老金.
    a life force
    生命力.
    a life member of Congress(Parliament)
    [美]国会([英]下院)终身议员.
    -同义词和反义词

    词性:noun

    例句1. the joy of giving life to a child’

    同义词系列1
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    例句2. armaments that threaten to eliminate life on the planet’

    同义词系列3

    例句5. the Parliament Bill introduced a limit of five years for the life of any Parliament’

    例句8. more than 1,500 lives were lost in the accident’

    -life的不同词性形态

    名词 变体/同根词

    life的(obsolete, possibly not standard in any era)复数形式
    “Susan does yoga and paints with acrylics on canvas, doing portraits, still lifes, and landscapes.”
    “The works include landscapes, still lifes, figuratives, abstracts and pastels, by approximately 75 artists.”
    “Today I managed to fulfill one of my lifes ambitions, and almost by accident.”
    (now rare, archaic) A day of someone’s life; chiefly in plural: a lifetime. [from 9th c.]
    (informal) A person who is passionate about making the most of life.
    “Are you a workaholic? Now that you’ve got a family, it’s time to become a lifeaholic.”
    “I’ve gone from being a workaholic to a lifeaholic who works just enough to put salad on the table.”
    The quality of being lively; animation; energy.
    “Some may enjoy the liveliness of such a restaurant.”
    “Ethan became fond of her good nature, her liveliness, and her deep passion for nature.”
    “Fay sat on the edge of the bed, her pretty face lacking its usual liveliness.”
    The state of being alive; exuberance, intensity.
    “But throughout the book the occasional faults matter little against the poetry’s terrible aliveness.”
    “I mean it in the concrete sense that is used in everyday life, the sense of soul, feeling, connectedness, inspiration, and aliveness.”
    “That sense of aliveness isn’t there when you read the text, and seeing the performance will be much more engaging.”

    动词 变体/同根词

    liven的现在分词
    “Just as it neared the eight o’clock hour, the party was really just livening up.”
    “Potent purple pigments in the blueberries are excellent for livening up the arteries, while their vitamin C content wakes up the immune system.”
    “He bowled his heart out and all credit to him for livening up the final day’s play.”
    live的过去式和过去分词
    “Have you ever wondered in which city-state you would have lived in Ancient Greece?”
    “Thomas Young lived in a pivotal time. The explosion of knowledge that was soon to come made it impossible to be a true polyhistor.”
    “It was a period in American history when most people lived and worked on farms.”
    liven的过去式和过去分词
    “And then there’s that new piece of body art that really livened things up in the airport security line.”
    “A green salad livened with blue cheese vinaigrette gets a fan of seared rare steak and colorful peppers.”
    “The narrative, livened by a selection of Argentinian political cartoons, demonstrates the power of applied economics.”
    (transitive) To cause to be more lively, or to become more lively.
    “A close pal can liven up an afternoon by announcing that her new love interest has, without warning, moved to Chicago.”
    “As you gain confidence in your design eye, you can always add splashes of a complementary color here and there to liven things up.”
    “Things liven up, too, when Mr G appears, shaky and dithery in his stained white suit, having problems with his colostomy bag.”
    (computing) To capture and record images of one’s entire life.
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