life/la?f/
1. [N-UNCOUNT] Life is the quality which people, animals, and plants have when they are not dead, and which objects and substances do not have.生命
例：...a baby's first minutes of life.…
嬰兒生命的頭幾分鐘。
例：Amnesty International opposes the death penalty as a violation of the right to life.
大曱赦國際組曱織反曱對死刑，因其侵犯生存權。
2. [N-UNCOUNT] You can use life to refer to things or groups of things which are alive. 生物;生命
例：Is there life on Mars?
火星上有生命嗎？
3. [N-COUNT] 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. 生存; 性命
例：Your life is in danger.
妳有生命危險。
例：A nurse began to try to save his life.
壹名護士開始設法搶救他。
4. [N-COUNT] Someone's life is the period of time during which they are alive. 壹生
例：He spent the last fourteen years of his life in retirement.
他生命的最後14年退休在家。
5. [N-COUNT] You can use life to refer to a period of someone's life when they are in a particular situation or job. 人生階段; 生涯
例：Interior designers spend their working lives keeping up to date with the latest trends.
室內設計者們把他們的職業生涯都花在追趕最新潮流上。
6. [N-COUNT] You can use life to refer to particular activities which people regularly do during their lives. 生活
例：My personal life has had to take second place to my career.
我的個人生活不得不放在我的事業之後。
7. [N-UNCOUNT] You can use life to refer to the things that people do and experience that are characteristic of a particular place, group, or activity. (特定的) 生活
例：How did you adjust to college life?
妳是怎麽適應大學曱生活的？
例：He abhors the wheeling-and-dealing associated with conventional political life.
他憎惡傳統政曱治生活中的爾虞我詐。
8. [N-UNCOUNT] A person, place, book, or movie that is full of life gives an impression of excitement, energy, or cheerfulness. 活力
例：The town itself was full of life and character.
這座城鎮本身就充滿了活力和個性。
9. [N-UNCOUNT] 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. 終身監曱禁
例：He could get life in prison, if convicted.
他會遭終身監曱禁，如果罪名成曱立的話。
10. [N-COUNT] The life of something such as a machine, organization, or project is the period of time that it lasts for. (機器、組曱織或項目的) 壽命
例：The repairs did not increase the value or the life of the equipment.
這些修理沒有提高設備的價值，也沒有延長它的壽命。