| 单词 | life savings |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslife savings life savings n. the money saved by a person throughout his or her entire life; all of the money that a person has at his or her disposal. ΚΠ 1855 Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper 11 Nov. 11/5 The money was the life savings of the unfortunate creature. 1934 L. Charteris Boodle ii. 43 The small investments which represented their life savings had on occasion been skittled down the market in the course of Mr. Oates's important operations. 2004 S. Hunter Hell Bent for Leather (2005) xiii. 236 One of the hawks..would phone and hound them until they finally agreed to sign away their life savings into one of Fratton's special ‘schemes’. < as lemmas |
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