| 释义 |
one's life's workThe work (especially that of an academic or artistic nature) accomplished in or pursued throughout someone’s lifetime: a major exhibition of his life’s work...- The son seems to have made posturing against his father's accomplishments and beliefs his life's work.
- Some people, when they're told they have terminal illnesses, start planning for after life: writing memoirs, completing their life's work, sorting through their photo albums or whatever.
- Like the swarms of people who flock to Web sites devoted to the study of genealogy, company owners who fall into their life's work through happenstance or inheritance may feel rootless, even disaffected.
See parent entry: life |