life
美 [laɪf] 
英 [laɪf]
词形变化
复数：lives 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
生存状态state of living
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 |
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| 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。 |
生物living things
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| Is there intelligent life on other planets? 在其他星球上存在具有智力的生命吗？ |
时期period of time
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。 |
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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。 |
惩罚punishment
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。 |
经历；活动experience/activities
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 |
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| 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。 |
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| 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 |
活力；兴奋energy/excitement
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。 |
艺术in art
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 |
传记story of life
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。 |
儿童游戏in children's games
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。 |
英汉解释
n. | 3. 一生;寿命;【核】(亚原子粒子的)生命期;使用期限,耐久性 |
英英解释
例句
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。
For, in good truth, you seem to turn over the pages of my past life far better than I could do myself.
因为说老实话，你对于我的生活看得比我自己还更清楚。
Amidst these friends then, and a host more, Pen passed more than two brilliant and happy years of his life.
在这些朋友，以及其他许多同学中间，潘度过了两年多丰富多采的愉快生活。
Like the others, they lived up to the resolute sentiment of Longfellow's "Psalm of Life" .
他们和别人一样，当得起朗费罗在《生命颂》中所描绘的崇高情操。
Every man feels from his soul that he has got to carry his life to a certain depth.
每个人都打心里感到，他必须使人生过得有意义。
Clare's life at the dairy had been that of a recluse in respect to the world of his own class.
克莱住在牛奶厂里的时候，跟他同一阶层的人没有往来，简直是一个隐士。
It would be pleasant to tell of her life with the fisherman and wife in their cottage on the moors.
我倒是乐意讲叙她与渔夫夫妇在荒野小茅屋里的生活情形。
Isabel learned from her friend that the two had led a life of great personal intimacy.
伊莎贝尔从她的朋友那里得悉，他们两人非常投机。
But it was, evident to me that here was an envoy from the President of supreme importance to our life.
但是，我清楚地意识到，和我们在一起的有一位对于我们生存关系重大的总统特使。
He no doubt wants to go down in history as the leader who brought peace and a better life to Russia.
他无疑想作为给俄国带来和平和较美好生活的领导人而名垂青史。
This sort of life is not calculated to appeal to a young man of 20.
这种生活对于一个20岁的年轻小伙子不大可能有吸引力。
From living a softer life, both sexes also began to lose something of their strength and ferocity.
由于得到了一种比较舒适的生活，两性都开始失去一部分强悍性和气力。
He would not go back tonight till he had come to her, even if it costed him his life. He staked his all on this throw.
他今晚要不是想起她就不回去了。即使他付出生命的代价，他也要去。他要孤注一掷。
She must see if she really wants you, wants to keep you and to have no other man all her life.
她必须确定是否真正需要你，和你白头偕老，终身不再找别的男人。
She was one of the few gentle women I have ever known, and has remained throughout my life the measure of what a human being can be.
她是我认识的少数几个有身份的妇人之一。在我一生中她始终是我做人的榜样。
She did not understand the reaches of life at all.
她完全不懂得人生的深浅。
Only by helping the least fortunate of its members to help themselves can the human family achieve the decent satisfying life.
惟有帮助那些最不幸的成员去帮助他们自己，人类这个大家庭才能达到高尚而满足的生活。
I've been a line guy all my life, which might have made it easier.
我一辈子都是个业务人员，所以觉得这种事比较容易。
There was something in her face-a look of life hard--lived, the mysterious impress of emotions, experience, and suffering.
她脸上有一种--一种历尽坎坷的神情，和喜怒哀乐，阅历与痛苦留下的神秘痕迹。
She was running away from her life in London, taking the two children and their nurse with her.
她带着两个孩子和一个保姆出走，告别了她在伦敦的生涯。
If I had a grain of true repentance for an abominable life of twenty-four years past, it was then.
假使我对过去二十四年的罪恶生活有丝毫追悔的话，那就是那个时候。
I have never been madder at anything in my life than I was at Halsey during Leyte Gulf.
我生平从来没有一次象在莱特湾对海尔赛那样恼火过。
"My life used to be full of everything, " I said. "Now if you aren't with me, I haven't a thing in the world. "
“我的生活本来非常丰富，”我说，“现在你一不在，我在世界上就一无所有了。”
As he worked alone on the land, or sat up with his ewes at lambing time, the facts and material of his daily life fell away.
当他独立一个在田地干活，或产羊羔期间通宵达旦守护着母羊的时候，日常生活中的事实和物质在消失。
Or is all this an empty conceit, the vaporing of the tired and overwrought brain of a life long liberal?
再不然，这一切是不是一种无聊的妄自尊大，是不是一个毕生开明的人疲乏过度大脑的幻想呢？
She tried to think of another occasion in her life when she had deceived someone close to her.
她竭力回想自己是否还有欺骗过亲人的时候。
The prince Mamilius, hearing his mother was to be tried for her life, struck with grief and shame, and suddenly died.
迈密勒斯王子听到要把母亲问成死罪，悲伤羞愧得突然死去了。
He did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life.
他没有意识到他正在为自己提供一个躲避世界纷扰的安乐窝。
Roberta, even before the arrival of Clyde in her life, did not want to be so clung to.
即便在克莱德跟自己来往以前，罗伯塔也不希望这样粘在一起。
Twice in his life he had to go against everything; and yet it never made him bitter.
他一生中有两次不得不和整个社会闹翻；然而从不因此而变得愤世嫉俗。
Yet he went on trying to steer the ship of their dual life.
可他仍然试图驾驶他们双重生活的航船。
But I would choose to have it as a portion of life sometime, for without it we cannot be whole.
可是有时我会选择把它当作生命的一部分，因为没有孤独我们就不会完整。
I had heard the morning of the day she died that she was probably on her way out of this life.
我听说她去世的那天早晨，她或许是以这种方式结束了自己的人生。
The acquisition of my tape recorder really finished whatever emotional life I might have had, but I was glad to see it go.
获得录音机，确切终结了我所有可能享有的感情生活，但我欣见它结束。
Draco is defeated dumbledore, snape appeared to dumbledore, read out the killing curse, the end of the old man's life.
德拉科却打败了邓布利多，斯内普出现了，对邓布利多念出了杀戮咒，结束了老人的生命。
But it has one redeeming feature: the irresistible impulse to see one's writings in print exhausts itself during early life.
但这也有挽回的一面：那种急于看到自己作品印刷出来的不可抵御的冲动，在人生的早期就萎靡下去了。
It was the last straw for her ; she packed up and moved North and regained her life.
她忍无可忍，只好整理行装，搬到北部，重新生活。
Carl: It was one of the best times of my life.
卡尔：那可是我一生中最美好的一段时光呀。
They have been very adept at first making money for themselves and then trading the financier's life for that of the power broker.
他们非常擅长于先给自己赚钱，再利用金融家的经历换取政治掮客的身份。
For the fist few days of his life, Wilbur was allowed to live in a box near the stove in the kitchen.
在威尔伯生下来的头几天，它给安置在厨房炉子旁边的箱子里。
Since then, music has always been accompanied by his young time, become an important part of his life.
自那以后，音乐一直伴随着他年轻的时光，成为他生命中重要的部分。
No one in his life, except maybe Tanya, would recognize him now, sitting on this stranger's bed, about to have sex with a man.
除了坦尼娅，不会有人能认出他的现在这个模样：坐在陌生人的床上，即将和一个男人上床。
As an important part of a city, communities enjoy a close relationship with the political, economic and cultural life of the residents.
社区作为一个城市的重要组成部分，它与居民的政治、经济和文化生活有着十分密切的关系。
The only sign of life was an ugly-looking black goat on a short length of rope (which was) tied to a tree in a field nearby.
废弃的村落，唯一的生命是一只被短绳拴在地头树上的难看的黑羊。
The side effects of this treatment can be devastating in terms of weakness, fatigue and a decrease in quality of life.
这种疗法的的副作用是毁灭性的，表现为体质虚弱，疲乏无力，和生命衰减。
Finn claims they still miss the hills and streams of Tennessee. But Las Vegas is where the action is and his wife accepted his way of life.
芬恩声称他们仍然怀念田纳西州的山山水水，拉斯维加斯却是热闹的娱乐中心。他的妻子也这样认为。
One of the best life coaches I've ever trained started on her career path not knowing there was such a profession.
在我培训过的优秀生活教练中有一位在职业生涯起步阶段根本不知道有那一行。
16 not to leave him with too much material heritage, give him a healthy body, give him a mental health, a happy life.
不给他留有太多的物质遗产，给他一个健康的身体，给他一个健康的心理，一个快乐的人生。
In her tragedy she had become a giantess, and life does not or cannot stand still.
在自己的悲剧中，她变成了一个女巨人，而生活没有也不可能止步不前。
When a doctor in an emergency to save life of critically ill patients with emergency medical measures taken to adverse consequences.
医生在紧急情况下为抢救垂危患者生命而采取紧急医疗措施造成不良后果的。
Huge earthquake just now in Chile! ! . . . . I swear I thought this was the end of my life! ! ! ! !
刚刚智利发生了特大地震！！！我发誓当时我认为这是我的生命尽头。
You were all along "the shadowy third" in my short life with her.
在我跟她共同生活那个短短的期间，你就永远是一个“暗中的第三者。”
Before marriage she's out to win you. Afterward you're just one of the many factors in her life.
在没有结婚之前，她一心想赢得你。结婚后，你只是她生活中的许多因素之一。
He stared at her grimly; he had never been certain how fond of each other the sisters were in life.
他冷冷地注视着她，他始终不清楚原先姐妹之间的感情究竟有多深。
He liked to say it was the only day in his life that he ever worked for anybody else.
他喜欢说那是他一生中为别人干活的唯一一天。
The brave man risked his life in trying to save the child.
那个勇敢者冒着生命危险试图营救那个孩子。
I should like part of me to stay there after death as it always did during life.
我希望死后我有一部分留在那里，就象生前一贯的那样。
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。
There she was, at any rate, looking as if she had never heard of such a place as the shrubbery in her life.
总而言之，她站在那儿，看样子就好像她这辈子里从没听到过灌林路这地方似的。
It's a simple fact of life that you've got to take care of the low end of the market.
严酷的现实是我们必须照顾购买力较低的那部分市场。
He scanned the screen curiously, wondering if ever before it had concealed the secret of a man's life.
他好奇地打量着屏风，心里捉摸它以前是否也隐藏过他人的生活秘密。
