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单词 lifeless
释义 life·less
\ˈlīflə̇s\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English lifles, from Old English līflēas, from līf life + -lēas -less — more at life
: having no life:
 a. : having ceased to live : deprived of life : dead
  < a lifeless carcass >
 b. : of a kind that is without life : inanimate
  < as cold and lifeless as marble — W.M.Thackeray >
  < animate the lifeless clay — Mary W. Shelley >
 c. : lacking qualities expressive of life and vigor : colorless, dull
  < a speech more lifeless … than most of its mechanical type — S.H.Adams >
  < a lifeless voice >
 d. : having the appearance of being dead
  < that lifeless but yet breathing creature — Anthony Trollope >
 e. : destitute of living beings
  < the plain lay dark … and lifeless — O.E.Rölvaag >
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