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单词 life-saving
释义
life-saving1 adjectivelife-saving2 noun
life-savingˈlife-ˌsaving1, life‧sav‧ing /ˈlaɪfˌseɪvɪŋ/ adjective [only before noun] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a life-saving operation
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • And the first indications were that his potential life-saving operation went well.
  • But a craft that size would carry alternative life-saving equipment.
  • Critics maintain excessive regulation can stand in the way of business expansion and faster approval of life-saving drugs.
  • Dramatic life-saving techniques, organ transplants and similar developments have popular appeal.
  • For that he was awarded his first life-saving medal.
  • It involved another Down's baby, a girl called Alexandra, who required a life-saving operation to remove an intestinal obstruction.
  • Sometimes, cowboys use more heroic life-saving measures, lifting weak cattle into trucks so they can be hauled to greener pastures.
  • The 59-year-old star needed two life-saving operation to remove blood clots and was left in a deep coma after brain surgery.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 The boy needs a life-saving transplant operation.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· And the first indications were that his potential life-saving operation went well.· Despite the relatively primitive surroundings, the team is delighted to have somewhere warm and dry to perform life-saving operations.· Rhys was to receive the potentially life-saving operation at the unit before its closure.· It involved another Down's baby, a girl called Alexandra, who required a life-saving operation to remove an intestinal obstruction.· The 59-year-old star needed two life-saving operation to remove blood clots and was left in a deep coma after brain surgery.
life-saving medical treatments or equipment are used to help save people’s liveslife-saving surgery/treatment/drugs etc The boy needs a life-saving transplant operation.
life-saving1 adjectivelife-saving2 noun
life-savinglife-saving2, life‧sav‧ing /ˈlaɪfˌseɪvɪŋ/ noun [uncountable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Even those doctors who practise in areas remote from hospitals do relatively little life-saving.
word sets
WORD SETS
armband, nounbackstroke, nounbathe, verbbather, nounbathing, nounbathing cap, nounbathing costume, nounbathing suit, nounbathing trunks, nounbeachwear, nounbelly flop, nounbikini, nounbreaststroke, nouncostume, noundip, noundive, verbdive, noundiver, noundiving, noundiving board, noundoggy paddle, noundog paddle, nounduck, verbdunk, verbfloat, nounfreestyle, nounlength, nounlifeguard, nounlifesaver, nounlife-saving, nounmedley, nounpaddling pool, nounspringboard, nounstroke, nounswim, verbswim, nounswimmer, nounswimming bath, nounswimming costume, nounswimming pool, nounswimming trunks, nounswimsuit, nounswimwear, nounsynchronized swimming, nounwaterwings, noun
the skills necessary to save a person from drowning:  All of the staff have been trained in lifesaving.
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