lifeline

英 ['laɪflaɪn] 美['laɪf'laɪn]
  • n. 生命线;救生索

低频词畅通词汇

词态变化


复数: lifelines;

中文词源


lifeline 救生索

life,生命,line,线,绳索。

英英释意


1. a crease on the palm; its length is said by palmists to indicate how long you will live
2. support that enables people to survive or to continue doing something (often by providing an essential connection);
"the airlift provided a lifeline for Berlin"
"she offered me a lifeline in my time of grief"
3. line that raises or lowers a deep-sea diver
4. line thrown from a vessel that people can cling to in order to save themselves from drowning

英文词源


lifeline (n.)
also life-line, 1700, "rope used somehow to save lives," from life (n.) + line (n.); figurative sense first attested 1860. Sense in palmistry from 1890.

考试真题


And we are rushing to meet so many deadlines that we hardly register that what we need most are lifelines.

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词组搭配


throw a lifeline to (或 throw someone a lifeline)

provide (someone) with a means of escaping from a difficult situation

向某人提供脱离困境的手段

实用场景例句


The extra payments are a lifeline for most single mothers.
额外补助对大多数单身母亲来说都是赖以生存的生命线。

牛津词典

Information about the job market can be a lifeline for those who are out of work...
对于那些失业的人而言,就业信息可谓是他们的生命线。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The orders will throw a lifeline to Britain's shipyards.
这些订单将给英国的造船厂注入一线生机。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Both ends of an Activation should be connected to an Object Lifeline or to another Activation.
激活的两端应连接到一个对象生命线或连接到另外一个激活.

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Long span transmission line system is the lifeline project as the electric powe's carrier. "
大跨越输电塔线体系作为高压电能输送的载体,是重要的生命线工程.

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Our fax machine is our lifeline to our clients.
我们的传真机是联接我们与顾客的重要纽带.

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Quality is our lifeline and human resource is our motivity.
品质是企业的生命线,人才是发展的原动力.

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We can throw these people a lifeline.
我们可以挽救那些人.

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No other country is so dependent on a single lifeline.
任何别的国家都不像埃及这样依赖着唯一的一条生命线.

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Then I met, or rather got to know, the lady who threw me first lifeline.
这时我遇到或者说认识了抛给我第一根救生索的那位夫人.

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One is the lifeline, which represents health and longevity.
一条是生命线, 代表健康和寿命.

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With the development of global medical education, teaching quality has been the lifeline of medical education.
随着医学教育全球化的发展, 教学质量已成为医学教育的生命线.

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Or – more cruelly – her mobile, the lifeline of their relationship, is simply cut off.
或者,再残酷一点, 将维系他们感情的生命线——她的电话直接换掉.

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He clung to the lifeline and the woman pulled him towards the bank.
他紧紧抓住救生索,那个女人把他拉向岸边.

《简明英汉词典》

For many old people living on their own the telephone is their lifeline to the outside world.
对许多独居的老年人来讲,电话是他们与外界联系的生命线.

《简明英汉词典》

Railways and highways are a lifeline a prosperous economy.
铁路、公路是经济繁荣的生命线.

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He threw me a lifeline when he offered me a job.
他给我工作就相当于拋给了我一条救命索.

《简明英汉词典》

Urban underground pipeline is the lifeline in a city.
城市地下管线系统是城市的“生命线”.

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Financial management runs through a lifeline in the enterprise's whole life.
财务管理是贯穿整个企业经营活动始终的一条生命线.

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The lifeline is displayed as a vertical dashed line.
生命周期显示为一个垂直的点画线.

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To the education, the education quality is the lifeline.
对于教育来说, 教育质量是其生命线.

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CAAC has created dozens of unprecedented and set up a lifeline in the sky.
中国民航创造了许许多多个“史无前例”,搭建起一条“蓝天生命线”.

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You have a very long lifeline, unlike others here.
你的生命线和长, 不像这里的其他人.

电影对白

Bridge is the key project in lifeline engineering.
桥梁是交通生命线的枢纽工程.

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Mothballed as a transportation lifeline, it might have forever faded from interest.
渡口被当作交通生命线而封存起来,本应永远从人们的兴趣中褪去.

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Education quality is the lifeline of running a school and the lasting theme of education.
教育质量是办学的生命线,是教育永恒的主题.

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Everyone knows that the umbilical cord is our lifeline in the womb.
大家都知道脐带是我们在母亲子宫里的生命线.

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Commercial banks are not only the main body of financial system but also national economic lifeline.
商业银行是我国金融业的主体,也是我国国民经济的命脉.

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The extra payments are a lifeline for most single mothers.
额外补助对大多数单身母亲来说都是赖以生存的生命线。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

The orders will throw a lifeline to Britain's shipyards.
这些订单将给英国的造船厂注入一线生机。

柯林斯例句