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单词 lifetime
释义

lifetime

/ˈlʌɪftʌɪm /
noun
1The duration of a person’s life: a reward for a lifetime’s work...
  • But, in imposing the lifetime ban, the chairman of the bench said the measure was necessary to protect other animals.
  • Our wars have taken from us the men and women we honor today and every hour of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.
  • Detention without any charges and without any court review can last an entire lifetime.

Synonyms

lifespan, life, days, duration of life, allotted span, course of life, time on earth, existence, one's time, one's career, one's threescore years and ten, this mortal coil
informal one's born days
1.1The duration of a thing’s existence or usefulness: fifteen shops closed during the lifetime of the scheme...
  • Today, at the start of the 21st century, human lifetimes are being extended while the lifetimes of new technologies are becoming shorter and shorter.
  • Then, they make sure those roofs get the attention they deserve to extend their useful lifetimes.
  • The potential for improved radiation resistance of thin-film solar cells relative to single-crystal cells could extend the mission lifetimes substantially.

Synonyms

duration, life, active life, existence, life expectancy, functioning period, period of effectiveness/usefulness/validity/efficacy
1.2 informal A very long period of time: five weeks was a lifetime, anything could have happened...
  • It took a lifetime for the elevator doors to open on my floor, and it took another lifetime to walk to my apartment door.

Synonyms

all one's life, a very long time, an eternity;
hours, days, months, years, aeons, hours/days/months on end
informal ages (and ages), an age

Phrases

once in a lifetime

of a lifetime

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