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life·time
laIf taIm
noun
the duration of the existence of a living being (such as a person or an animal) or a thing (such as a star or a subatomic particle)
life sense 12
an amount accumulated or experienced in a lifetime
a lifetime of regrets
adjective
lifelong
of long duration or continuance
lifetime legislation
measured or achieved over the span of a career
a baseball player's lifetime batting average
of a lifetime一生最…的;终身难遇的
once in a lifetime一生一次
long lifetime长寿命
lifetime achievement终身成就
lifetime education生涯教育
也可以说 life-time,意为“一个人的寿命”,早在13世纪就出现了,由 life(n.)和 time(n.)组成。这个词从19世纪开始使用。古英语中也有 lifdæg,意为“生命之日”。
使用期
寿命
寿命:同mean life
The first known use of lifetime was in the 13th century
lift1 of 2verb
to move to a higher position, rate, or amount
to rise from the ground the rocket lifted off
planes lifting from the runway
to stop or remove often temporarily lift a ban
lift a blockade
to move upward and disappear or become scattered
when the fog lifts
lift2 of 2noun
the amount that may be lifted at one time : load
the action or an instance of lifting
help especially in the form of a ride
can I give you a lift?
chiefly British elevator sense 1b
a device for carrying people up or down a mountain
a raising of the spirits
their visit gave me a lift
an upward force (as on an airplane wing) that opposes the pull of gravity
lift1 of 2verb
to move to a higher position, rate, or amount
to rise from the ground the rocket lifted off
planes lifting from the runway
to stop or remove often temporarily lift a ban
lift a blockade
to move upward and disappear or become scattered
when the fog lifts
lift2 of 2noun
the amount that may be lifted at one time : load
the action or an instance of lifting
help especially in the form of a ride
can I give you a lift?
chiefly British elevator sense 1b
a device for carrying people up or down a mountain
a raising of the spirits
their visit gave me a lift
an upward force (as on an airplane wing) that opposes the pull of gravity
lifeworknoun
the entire or chief work of one's lifetime
lifetimenoun
life entry 1 sense 3a
life entry 1 sense 8
lifetimenoun
life entry 1 sense 3a
life entry 1 sense 8
1 She returned his gaze, struck by the sense of her own transformation, and overwhelmed by the beauty in a face which a lifetime’s habit had taught her to ignore.
2 In one short lifetime the telephone has changed all that.
3 So this is a problem which you are going to see in your lifetime.
所以这是一个在你的有生之年就要遇到的问题.
4 The fear in her face made me think she must have seen one of these accidental fires up close in her short lifetime.
5 During the lifetime of a typical galaxy, about ten billion years, a hundred million stars will have exploded—a great many, but still only about one star in a thousand.
6 After traveling nearly eleven billion miles in my lifetime, my atoms and I had arrived at a place where we could confidently make such determinations about love.
7 A lifetime of practical and comfortable considerations settled atop the spark inside her like a thick, heavy blanket.
8 Keep your nutrition sound and you'll reap a lifetime of benefits.
保持良好的营养将令你终生受益.
9 The electrochemical measurement show that the electrochemical capacity and cycle lifetime of the annealed alloys decrease.
电化学测试结果表明,热处理后合金电化学容量和循环寿命均降低.
10 I done raised seventeen kids in my lifetime.
11 Mao spent his lifetime trying to transform Chinese society in his utopian, socialist and revolutionary vision.
毛泽东花尽一生的心血努力把中国社会建设成他理想中的乌托邦式社会主义的革命国家.
12 The lifetime of a human being is measured in decades; the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer.
13 Eighty years constitute a longer-than-average lifetime.
八十岁高于平均寿命。
14 And although Stephen Byerley was one man she could like and trust, she was almost seventy and the cultivated habits of a lifetime are not easily broken.
15 The gap between the rich and the poor stretches as wide as it did in Fannie’s lifetime.
16 We find evidence for similar bitterness in the archive of the Greek magistrate Diophanes, who presided over the Arsinoite nome in middle Egypt toward the end of Eratosthenes’ lifetime in the late third century.
17 Handel, though, not only represented a musical amalgam of European styles during his lifetime; he also bequeathed to the next generation of composers a non-parochial, universal idiom that was venerated and built upon.
18 This period of control may last a lifetime, even for those convicted of extremely minor, nonviolent offenses, but the vast majority of those swept into the system are eventually released.
19 The infant stage is that language develops the promptest period in person lifetime.
幼儿阶段是人一生中语言发展最迅速的时期.
20 “But this was the trip of a lifetime! You can’t possibly understand how important this is to my daughter!”