| 单词 | life support |
| 释义 | life supportuncountable noun [oft on N] Life support is a system that is used to keep a person alive when they are very ill and cannot breathe without help. She was kept on life support through the afternoon so family and friends could saygoodbye. life support in British English (laɪf səˈpɔːt) noun 1. maintaining a person's vital functions in severe illness or disability 2. informal an informal way of referring to a life-support machine or system life-support in British Englishadjective of or providing the equipment required to sustain human life in an unnatural environment, such as in space, or in severe illness or disability life-support in American English (ˈlaɪfsəˌpɔrt) adjective 1. Engineering designating or of any system that enables normal living in space, under water, etc. 2. Medicine designating or of any device or system, usually connected directly to a patient, that can take over for a vital body organ or function that is failing or has failed Examples of 'life support' in a sentence |
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