英语词汇“the meaning of life”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

d. Something which gives one a sense of purpose, value, etc., esp. of a metaphysical or spiritual kind; the (perceived) purpose of existence or of a person's life. Frequently in the meaning of life.

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1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. ix, in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 447/2 Our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom.

1897 J. Conrad Nigger of ‘Narcissus’ v. 96 We understood the subtlety of his fear..as though we had been over-civilized, and rotten, and without any knowledge of the meaning of life.

1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out xxiii. 382 I, on the other hand, had the whole meaning of life revealed to me in a flash.

1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day i. 24 So whatever meaning there is in my life, being concentrated in my poetry, should unfold itself if I follow up the clues which the poetry offers.

1993 Time 31 May 22/3 America, she said, suffers from a ‘sleeping sickness of the soul’,..that we lack, at some core level, meaning in our individual lives and meaning collectively.

单词	the meaning of life
释义	> as lemmas the meaning of life d. Something which gives one a sense of purpose, value, etc., esp. of a metaphysical or spiritual kind; the (perceived) purpose of existence or of a person's life. Frequently in the meaning of life. ΚΠ 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. ix, in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 447/2 Our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom. 1897 J. Conrad Nigger of ‘Narcissus’ v. 96 We understood the subtlety of his fear..as though we had been over-civilized, and rotten, and without any knowledge of the meaning of life. 1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out xxiii. 382 I, on the other hand, had the whole meaning of life revealed to me in a flash. 1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day i. 24 So whatever meaning there is in my life, being concentrated in my poetry, should unfold itself if I follow up the clues which the poetry offers. 1993 Time 31 May 22/3 America, she said, suffers from a ‘sleeping sickness of the soul’,..that we lack, at some core level, meaning in our individual lives and meaning collectively. extracted from meaningn.² < as lemmas
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