life
音标发音
- 英式音标 [laɪf]
- 美式音标 [laɪf]
- 国际音标 [laif]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n.一生;生命;生活;人生
词源解说
- 直接源自古英语的life;最初源自原始日耳曼语的liba,意为生活方式。
同根派生
- adj性质的同根词
- lifeless:无生命的;死气沉沉的;无趣味的。
- lifelike:栩栩如生的;逼真的。
- adv性质的同根词
- lifelessly:无生命地。
- n性质的同根词
- lifelessness:枯燥无味);无生命(死。
用法辨析
- life的基本意思是指使人或其他生物的活动、成长,从而有别于死的物体、岩石或其他无机物体的“生命”,也可指一切有生命的东西,即“生物”。life也可指“人生,人的存在”或人在一生中的经历,即“生活”。life还可指“人命,性命”。引申可指“一生,终身”“生命力,活力”“生活方式”。
- life泛指“生命”时是不可数名词;泛指“性命”时是可数名词;泛指“生活”时是不可数名词,其前不加冠词,但指某种有比较具体内容的“生活”“生活方式”时则是可数名词。
- for life的意思是“一辈子,一生”,当所指的人为复数时,也可以用复数形式for lives。
- for one's life的意思是“拼命地”;for the life of one的意思是“无论如何”,只能用于否定结构。
n. (名词)
词组短语
- add life 增加生气
- begin a life 开始生活
- better the life 改善生活
- breathe new life into sth 给予(某事物)生气
- bring back to life 使…苏醒,使…复活,使…生动活泼
用作名词 (n.)
动词+~
英英字典
- the period between birth and death, or the experience or state of being alive
- Life is the quality which people, animals, and plants have when they are not dead, and which objects and substances do not have.
- You can use life to refer to things or groups of things which are alive.
- If you refer to someone's life, you mean their state of being alive, especially when there is a risk or danger of them dying.
- Someone's life is the period of time during which they are alive.
- You can use life to refer to a period of someone's life when they are in a particular situation or job.
- You can use life to refer to particular activities which people regularly do during their lives.
- You can use life to refer to the things that people do and experience that are characteristic of a particular place, group, or activity.
- A person, place, book, or film that is full of life gives an impression of excitement, energy, or cheerfulness.
- If someone is sentenced to life, they are sentenced to stay in prison for the rest of their life or for a very long time.
- The life of something such as a machine, organization, or project is the period of time that it lasts for.
- If you bring something to life or if it comes to life, it becomes interesting or exciting.
- If you say that someone is fighting for their life, you mean that they are in a very serious condition and may die as a result of an accident or illness.
- For life means for the rest of a person's life.
- If someone takes another person's life, they kill them. If someone takes their own life, they kill themselves.
- You can use expressions such as to come to life, to spring to life, and to roar into life to indicate that a machine or vehicle suddenly starts working or moving.
- a matter of life and death&rarrsee death
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专业释义
- 生活
The word blog in the Internet and social life is very popular.
博客一词目前在互联网和社会生活中已是非常流行。 - 生命
They changed their life, so did the northeast part of China.
他们不但改变了自身的生命轨迹,也改变了东北社会发展的历史进程。经济学
- 生命
Chapter 6, The evolution of micro-enterprises life.
第6章微型企业生命的演变。 - 生活
Landscape has been a necessary party of people’s life.
园林是人们生活和工作环境的一部分。医药科学
- 寿命
PMNs are terminally differentiated cells and have a very short life-span.
PMN是分化终末细胞,寿命短暂。计算机科学技术
- 寿命
It improves reliability of system as well as prolongs life of server.
从而提高了系统的可靠性,延长了服务器的使用寿命。 - 生命
- 使用期限
- 再次击球的机会
- 寿命
- 寿命
- 生活
- 生命
- 生命