lifetime
美 [ˈlaɪfˌtaɪm] 
英 ['laɪf.taɪm]
- n.寿命；一生；终身；有生之年
- 网络终生；生命期；生存期
词形变化
复数：lifetimes 同义词
英汉双解
1. | 一生；终身；有生之年；（某物的）存在期，寿命，使用期限the length of time that sb lives or that sth lasts |
| His diary was not published during his lifetime. 他的日记在他生前未曾发表过。 |
| a lifetime of experience 毕生的经验 |
| in the lifetime of the present government 在本届政府的任期内 |
习惯用语
the chance, etc. of a lifetime
终身难得的机遇；千载难逢的机会a wonderful opportunity, etc. that you are not likely to get again
once in a lifetime
（可能）一生只有一次used to describe sth special that is not likely to happen to you again
| An opportunity like this comes once in a lifetime. 像这样的机会一生也许只会遇到一次。 |
| a once-in-a-lifetime experience 一生只会拥有一次的经历 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
Even if the scope of a variable is limited to a block, its lifetime is still that of the entire procedure.
即使变量的范围被限制在某个块内，其生存期仍为整个过程的生存期。
At least one copy of the obsolete documents shall BE kept in record for a period equal to the lifetime of product.
对作废的受控文件，至少保存一份，保存期限为产品的使用寿命期内。
If he can bring her to be happy, he can give her a lifetime of happiness!
如果他能让她开心，他会给她一生的幸福！
The "ideas of a lifetime" could appear at any given moment & could forgotten just as fast as it arrives.
终生的观念会出现在一些场合，而且忘记正如他到了那么快。
Nevertheless, for the sake of David your father, I will not do it during your lifetime. I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
然而，因你父亲大卫的缘故，我不在你活着的日子行这事，必从你儿子的手中将国夺回。
No wonder, people used to joke about him, like: " Old Tim wants to become a legend in his own lifetime. "
难怪人们经常这样开他的玩笑：“老蒂姆想成为他那个时代的传奇人物。”
Reached by phone last week, the woman confirmed the relationship, and said it had caused her a lifetime of pain.
上个星期拨通电话，这位女士确认了他们的关系，并说，这让她一辈子痛苦。
These handles' lifetime is determined by a handle scope, which is often created at the beginning of a function call.
这些句柄的生存时间由句柄范围决定，句柄范围经常在一个函数的开始的时候被创建。
So saving for college, though a worthy goal, isn't always a realistic one when a week might as well be a lifetime.
虽然存钱上大学是一个很不错的目标，但我们的目标绝对不局限于它必须是现实存在的东西，也不局限于要在固定的时间内完成。
For her Cuba and also to her mu wen life only one love, not to marry her lifetime.
为了她的古巴大胡子，也为了她人生中唯一的一段爱情，她终生未嫁。
Researcher Emily Stag said: 'Twenty pounds a week might not seem a lot, but can add up to a huge amount over a lifetime.
研究人员艾米丽斯泰格说：“每周20英镑也许看起来不是很多，但一辈子这么积累起来数额就相当大了。”
I'd used email since about 1975, and it seems to me that 15 years of email is plenty for one lifetime.
我自从1975年开始用电子邮件；在我看来，对一个人的一生来说，15年的电子邮件使用已经足够多了。
Only a handful of his many compositions was allowed to be published during his lifetime.
在他生前，他的许多作品中只有一小部分允许出版。
poor is a state of mind, you if lifetime insists he is poor, with a large amount of money is not going to save you.
穷是一种心态，你若一辈子坚持自己是穷人，拥有大量金钱也救不了你。
Just imagine how much you can save over your lifetime if you increase your savings amount for each raise!
要是每次加薪都提高存款额，想想你一辈子能存多少钱吧！
I've never been able to share it with so many people, share what I love. . . it's a once in a lifetime movie so I'll never have this again.
我的片子从没有和很多人分享过，和别人分享我喜欢的东西…这是一生中只此一部的电影，我不会再有这样的机会。
Last time I wrote few words about what prompted me to leave simple life in Europe behind and set out on adventure of a lifetime.
上次在我帖子上我写了什么促使我出国留学。扔下平淡的生活然后着手准备新阶段.一旦开始学汉语那就是你一生的冒险。
I can do something for 12 hours that would appall me if I had to keep it up for a lifetime.
有些事情我只能坚持做十二个小时——要是让我坚持一辈子，我会恐惧不已。
"Participating in a race at the Olympics was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, " she said.
她说：“能参加奥运会比赛是人生中难得的经历。”
But really very easy to say and do things necessary to a lifetime of effort to be honored.
但说出来的确非常容易，做出来就要用一生的精力去兑现。
Oh, turn to Him, in whose eyes time and space have no existence, and to whom a few minutes are as a lifetime, and a lifetime as a minute.
哦，求助于主吧，在主的眼中，时间和空间不复存在，对主而言，几分钟恍如一世，而一世恍如一分钟。
He was a small man, all steel and springs in build, legs bowed from a lifetime among horses.
他个子不大，体魄坚韧灵活，长期生活在马背上，他的腿成了弓形。
The cruise was advertised as the 'journey of a lifetime'.
这次航行被宣传为“终生难得的旅行”。
A manager today typically spends a lifetime in his chosen field, moving from one city to another as opportunities for advancement develop.
在今天，一个典型的市政经理，一辈子都干他所选择的行业，只要有升迁机会，就从一个城市转到另外一个城市。
The exception to this is the lifetime appointment by the President of Justices of the Supreme Court and other federal judges.
总统委任的最高法院大法官及其他联邦法官是终身任职，不在此限。
This would be my once-in-a-lifetime dive.
这将是我终生难再的一次跳水。
He said he had really wanted to find a girlfriend can learn together, live together, then hand over a lifetime.
他原本真的想找一个女朋友，能够一起学习，一起生活，然后就携手过一生。
In four days, he gave me a lifetime, a universe, and made the separate parts of me into a whole.
在四天里，他给了我一生，让我的灵魂与身体完美地融合在一处。
How much do you know about this Place of a Lifetime city?
你对“一生中必去的城市”之一的上海了解多少？
The baby boomers , who entered adulthood promising a lifetime of activism, have been a politically undistinguished generation.
出生于生育高峰的人，在成年后承诺行动主义，只是一代政治上平庸的一代。
There's a river in your eyes and I'm swept away Breaking inside out, promising to stay Together again, a lifetime stranded apart Save me!
有一条河流，在你眼里，我卷走打破内而外，答应留下来再次相聚，一生滞留除了救我！
You mean so much and I need you so, your love gives me the greatest joy I'll ever know. I'll take a lifetime to show how much I love you.
我需要你，你是如此重要。我知道你的爱是我最畅怀的，我要用一辈子来爱你。
It had always been one of my lifetime goals, and completing it was one of the very best things I've ever done.
这一直是我的一个人生目标。能够完成这一壮举是我曾经做过的最棒的事情之一。
It was the chance of a lifetime and not to have come to a club like Chelsea would have been silly.
它是一种人生的机遇，而不想加盟像切尔西这样的一家俱乐部将会被认为是愚蠢的。
However, over the course of marriage, sex dwindles, leaving the frequency of sex comparable to that of a lifetime of living single.
尽管如此，在婚姻的过程中，性爱逐渐减少，频率接近一个终生未婚的单身男女。
Lead does not break down in the body, but builds up over a lifetime of exposures.
铅在体内不会分解，但是会在体内形成积累效应，终生携带。
She was honored in her lifetime with the William Dean Howell Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
她的一生都浸润在美国文学艺术学院颁发给她的威廉姆迪恩豪威尔斯奖的光辉之下。
I'll take a lifetime to show how much I love you.
我将花我的一辈子去展示我是多么地爱你。
This is literally a once-in-a-lifetime experience, because in just a few months' time, all this would have melted to nothing.
它真的是一生只有一次的经历，因为仅在几个月后，所有这一切都将融化为乌有。
But she made it clear that she didn't intend to change the candid habits of a lifetime just because she was in the White House.
但她知道自己并不想因为入主白宫而改变她诙谐幽默的喜好。
A secure job is not the true meaning of the total in a place with food, but a lifetime no matter where to have food to eat.
铁饭碗的真正含义不是总在一个地方有饭吃，而是一辈子不论到哪都有饭吃。
Not really, I think the once in a lifetime experiences I have been lucky enough to have, more than make up for that.
没觉得，我认为仅有一次的人生经历，我已经过得足够幸运，弥补那些绰绰有余了。
You are so worried about protecting her reputation that you are ready to give up your job in the deepest recession of your lifetime.
你一心想着保护她的声誉，甚至准备辞去工作，哪怕你正面对这一辈子最严重的经济衰退。
"I know the cost of my wedding is a bit higher than the average, but it is the event of a lifetime, " she said.
我知道我在婚礼上的花费比一般人高些，但毕竟这是一辈子的大事。
You probably don't know his name, but there is no doubt you have seen a clip from one of his movies at least once in your lifetime.
你可能不知道他的名字，但你一生中绝对至少看过一次他电影里的一小片段。
But after a lifetime of handling money, she always had a fair sense of how much cash she'd tucked into her green wallet.
可是和钱打交道惯了，她知道自己的绿色钱包里应该有多少钱。
