单词 | life-support system |
释义 | > as lemmaslife-support system 2. figurative and in extended use, esp. in life-support system. ΚΠ 1969 Chicago Daily Defender 14 Aug. 18/1 Man is not only running out of food, he is also destroying the life support systems of the Spaceship Earth. 1979 Sci. Amer. Feb. 46/1 The bird egg is a self-contained life-support system for the developing bird embryo. 1984 D. Lodge Small World ii. i. 88 His life-support system: billfold, passport, tickets, pens. 2007 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 18 May 7 The power of the natural world, its rhythm of renewal, of light pushing out of the darkness, was, quite simply, my life-support machine. < as lemmas |
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