Definition of life work in English:

life work

(also life's work)

noun

mass noun

The entire or principal work or activity of a person's lifetime or career.
he decided to make anthropology his life work
my life's work has been to change the way food is produced in our country
Example sentencesExamples
- With the relative paucity of decent Rankin biographies, Smith's work promises to direct more attention to Jeannette Rankin and her lifework for peace.
- It is a great culmination of my life's work - I only wish my dad was alive to see it.
- During the course of our talk, I asked if the immersion in Fosse's lifework during the preparation of the show had caused her pain.
- No wonder he doubted; his lifework on slavery was fueled by just such hypocrisy and deception, which he never bothered examining.
- It sums up the lifework of one of the most serious, original, and balanced literary thinkers in North America.
- Xenocrates' lifework consisted of producing a kind of codification - and thus of necessity, a transformation - of Plato's philosophy.
- ‘His lifework was the masculination of gay desire’.
- This is the centenary month of Arne Jacobsen's birth, and his lifework is celebrated in two exhibitions in Denmark, and a new book.
- It is a lifework of cosmic scope and heroic realization.
- He wants to understand his father's life work and he hopes to discover who his father was in the process.
- His lifework was devoted to group theory and number theory.
- Now seems a good time to consider the other half of Richardson's lifework, on the mathematics of armed conflict.
- O'Gorman, who died in 2001, made architecture his life's work.
- His lifework consisted of refocusing critical attention onto the condition of being human, specifically the complex structures and expressions concretised in everyday life.
- His lifework shows us that scientists and humanists are in many ways similar kinds of insightful people.
- He might have been the lifework of a talented sculptor, and was, beyond question, the best-looking object ever to grace the sorry interior of the Singing Chicken.
- ‘Preparing minority students for the rigors and rewards of a career in journalism has been her lifework.’
- Moreau's art is a reassemblage of the memory and the tricks of the memory, as thorough and as convolute as Proust's vast quest for a half-lost past that was, likewise, the lifework of a polymath spellbound by beauty.
- In part this intense study of Scripture was connected with a conviction that his lifework lay in the service of the gospel.
- Now his publisher has issued his Collected Poems, which gives us his entire lifework between two covers - all the contents of his previous seven collections, plus 10 new poems written since 1995.
- The shepherd makes a ‘rolling hut his home,’ in keeping with his lifework, his ‘rounds,’ which are constituted by watching the ‘goings’ of his sheep.
- This lifework forms the fabric of her wonderful book.
- We held a school service as a testament to her life and her life's work.
- Then we may sit down and converse on the most interesting and important of all human affairs - politics - and on the men who choose politics as a lifework.
- The narrative, like the author's life work, reflects a gregarious, optimistic American spirit.

单词	life work
释义	Definition of life work in English: life work (also life's work) noun mass noun The entire or principal work or activity of a person's lifetime or career. he decided to make anthropology his life work my life's work has been to change the way food is produced in our country Example sentencesExamples With the relative paucity of decent Rankin biographies, Smith's work promises to direct more attention to Jeannette Rankin and her lifework for peace. It is a great culmination of my life's work - I only wish my dad was alive to see it. During the course of our talk, I asked if the immersion in Fosse's lifework during the preparation of the show had caused her pain. No wonder he doubted; his lifework on slavery was fueled by just such hypocrisy and deception, which he never bothered examining. It sums up the lifework of one of the most serious, original, and balanced literary thinkers in North America. Xenocrates' lifework consisted of producing a kind of codification - and thus of necessity, a transformation - of Plato's philosophy. ‘His lifework was the masculination of gay desire’. This is the centenary month of Arne Jacobsen's birth, and his lifework is celebrated in two exhibitions in Denmark, and a new book. It is a lifework of cosmic scope and heroic realization. He wants to understand his father's life work and he hopes to discover who his father was in the process. His lifework was devoted to group theory and number theory. Now seems a good time to consider the other half of Richardson's lifework, on the mathematics of armed conflict. O'Gorman, who died in 2001, made architecture his life's work. His lifework consisted of refocusing critical attention onto the condition of being human, specifically the complex structures and expressions concretised in everyday life. His lifework shows us that scientists and humanists are in many ways similar kinds of insightful people. He might have been the lifework of a talented sculptor, and was, beyond question, the best-looking object ever to grace the sorry interior of the Singing Chicken. ‘Preparing minority students for the rigors and rewards of a career in journalism has been her lifework.’ Moreau's art is a reassemblage of the memory and the tricks of the memory, as thorough and as convolute as Proust's vast quest for a half-lost past that was, likewise, the lifework of a polymath spellbound by beauty. In part this intense study of Scripture was connected with a conviction that his lifework lay in the service of the gospel. Now his publisher has issued his Collected Poems, which gives us his entire lifework between two covers - all the contents of his previous seven collections, plus 10 new poems written since 1995. The shepherd makes a ‘rolling hut his home,’ in keeping with his lifework, his ‘rounds,’ which are constituted by watching the ‘goings’ of his sheep. This lifework forms the fabric of her wonderful book. We held a school service as a testament to her life and her life's work. Then we may sit down and converse on the most interesting and important of all human affairs - politics - and on the men who choose politics as a lifework. The narrative, like the author's life work, reflects a gregarious, optimistic American spirit.
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