Lifetime
['laɪftaɪm]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The time that life continues.
校對:露辛达
例句/造句/用法:
- This is the chance of my lifetime in that direction. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Asks his mother to become, with him, a spy upon his father's transactions through a lifetime! 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Like drama which compresses the tragedy of a lifetime into a unity of time, place, and action, history foreshortens an epoch into an episode. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Every pulse of loverlike feeling which had not been stilled during Eustacia's lifetime had gone into the grave with her. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- If she died before her husband, he would naturally expect to be left in the enjoyment of the income, for HIS lifetime. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It took him at least ten years to pay off his college bills contracted during his father's lifetime. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- One lifetime is too short, and I am busy every day improving essential parts of my established industries. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It never moves more than three times in a lifetime. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- In my poor mother's lifetime, she went on, her friends were not always my friends, too. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I tried to say that I had never seen the dead man in his lifetime--that there was no hope of identifying him by means of a stranger like me. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- A full lifetime would be required to plant the crop, and a second generation would be required to reap it. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- In the old days people devoted a lifetime to it. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Not a lifetime, not to live together, not to have what people were always supposed to have, not at all. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Few Moors can ever build up their fortunes again in one short lifetime after so reckless an outlay. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It is certain that several of our eminent breeders have, even within a single lifetime, modified to a large extent their breeds of cattle and sheep. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Such conditions are often minutely represented in our petty lifetimes. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
編輯:基蒂