| 单词 | life |
| 释义 | life (once / 7 pages) 1n 2n 3n Plants, animals, insects, bacteria, viruses, algae, mold and humans all have life: they grow, eat, make waste, change, and reproduce. Rocks and minerals, not doing any of these, do not have life. Your life is the time from your birth to your death — you can see this in its origins: "to remain, persevere, continue, live." Life is everything that happens: When people say, "That's life," they mean all the events and tendencies, the human condition itself. You might hear about "city life" — or "country life" for that matter — meaning the habits and expectations of inhabitants of a particular place. WORD FAMILYlife: lifeless, lifelike, lifer, lifes, lives, pro-life+/lifeless: lifelessly, lifelessness/lifelike: unlifelike/lifer: lifers/pro-life: pro-lifer/pro-lifer: pro-lifers USAGE EXAMPLESThat series sets you up for life, although you should continue to get annual flu shots. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) While we need to move around a bit to complete the tasks of daily living, in modern life we tend not to move very much. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) For many of the patients we treat, daily life is such a struggle that brushing and flossing are a low priority. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1n the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones there is no life on the moon Hypo|Hyper biology characteristic life processes and phenomena of living organisms aerobiosislife sustained in the presence of air or oxygen organic phenomenon (biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals 2n the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities he could no longer cope with the complexities of life Syn|Hyper living experience the content of direct observation or participation in an event 3n the condition of living or the state of being alive while there's life there's hope life depends on many chemical and physical processes Syn|Hypo|Hyper aliveness, animation, living eternal life, life eternal life without beginning or end skina person's skin regarded as their life endurance, survivala state of surviving; remaining alive subsistencea means of surviving being, beingness, existence the state or fact of existing 4n living things collectively the oceans are teeming with life Hypo|Hyper wildlife all living things (except people) that are undomesticated animate thing, living thing a living (or once living) entity 5n animation and energy in action or expression 2it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it Syn|Hypo|Hyper liveliness, spirit, sprightliness pertness quality of being lively and confident airiness, delicacylightness in movement or manner alacrity, briskness, smartnessliveliness and eagerness energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour, viman imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) elanenthusiastic and assured vigor and liveliness espritliveliness of mind or spirit breeziness, jauntinessa breezy liveliness buoyancy, irrepressibilityirrepressible liveliness and good spirit high-spiritednessexuberant liveliness ebullience, enthusiasm, exuberanceoverflowing with eager enjoyment or approval ginger, pep, peppinessliveliness and energy verve, vitalityan energetic style vivacitycharacterized by high spirits and animation mettlesomenesscourageous high-spiritedness lyricismunrestrained and exaggerated enthusiasm madness, rabidity, rabidnessunrestrained excitement or enthusiasm animation, brio, invigoration, spiritedness, vivification quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous 1n a characteristic state or mode of living social life city life real life Hypo|Hyper ghetto any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping being, beingness, existence the state or fact of existing 2n the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living he hoped for a new life in Australia he wanted to live his own life without interference from others Hyper being, beingness, existence the state or fact of existing 3n the period between birth and the present time I have known him all his life Hyper period, period of time, time period an amount of time 4n the period from the present until death he appointed himself emperor for life Hypo|Hyper days, years the time during which someone's life continues period, period of time, time period an amount of time 5n a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives he got life for killing the guard Syn|Hyper life sentence prison term, sentence, time the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned 6n an account of the series of events making up a person's life Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper biography, life history, life story Parallel Lives a collection of biographies of famous pairs of Greeks and Romans written by Plutarch; used by Shakespeare in writing some of his plays autobiography a biography of yourself hagiographya biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint) profilebiographical sketch memoiran account of the author's personal experiences account, chronicle, history, story a record or narrative description of past events 7n a living person his heroism saved a life Hyper individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul a human being 8n a motive for living 3pottery was his life Hyper motivation, motive, need the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior n the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death) the battery had a short life he lived a long and happy life Syn|Hypo|Hyper life-time, lifespan, lifetime afterlife, hereafter life after death kingdom comethe next world immortalityperpetual life after death period, period of time, time period an amount of time |
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