| 单词 | life term |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslife term life term n. (a) chiefly poetic the duration of a person's (or animal's, etc.) life, a lifetime (now rare); (b) = life sentence n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > course or span of life life-dayOE year-daysOE timeOE dayOE lifeOE life's timeOE livelihoodOE yearOE lifetimea1300 life-whilea1300 for (also to) term of (a person's) lifea1325 coursec1384 livingc1390 voyage1390 agea1398 life's dayc1425 thread1447 racea1450 living daysc1450 natural life1461 lifeness1534 twist1568 leasec1595 span1599 clew1615 marcha1625 peregrination1653 clue1684 stamen1701 life term1739 innings1772 lifelong1814 pass-through1876 inning1885 natural1891 life cycle1915 puff1967 the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > course or span of life > prison sentence for life life imprisonment1794 life sentence1817 lifer1825 life term1861 1739 Young Clerk's Mag. Index at Fine For a Term of Years... For a Life Term. 1821 J. Bowring tr. V. A. Zhukovsky in Specimens Russ. Poets (ed. 2) 90 When his life-term is ended, Affection immortal shall live in his soul. 1861 New Amer. Cycl. XII. 755/1 Commutation to a shorter period of a life term to the state prison..does not restore marital rights. 1912 E. Ferber Man who came Back in Buttered Side Down ii. 25 If stuffing an order was a criminal offense I'll bet your swell traveling man would be doing a life term. 1969 A. C. Rich Observer in Coll. Early Poems (1993) 325 The mountain gorillas move through their life term. 2007 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Jan. 77/1 In Greece, however, a life term is limited to 25 years, and ‘lifers’ are eligible for parole after 16 years. < as lemmas |
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