life expectancy
n.平均寿命(=expectation of life)
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life expectancy为短语/超纲词汇
life expectancy
(a) number of years that a person is likely to live, esp as statistically determined for insurance purposes 预期寿命(尤指人寿保险估计)
*Women have a higher life expectancy than men. 女人比男人的预期寿命长.
(b) length of time sth is likely to exist or function (某事物的)预期存在的期限
*the life expectancy of the average car, the present government 一般汽车使用的、现政府执政的预期年限.
life expectancy
.life ex'pectancy
n[C]
the length of time that a person or animal is expected to live
the length of time that something is expected to continue to work, be useful etc
1. Even he still lives under the illusion that country life is somehow superior to town life. 即使他也仍存有幻觉,好像乡村生活就是比城市生活优越。
2. Eliot recommends taking charge of your life. 埃利奥特建议人们控制自己的生活。
3. But, if this world is not merely a bad joke, life a vulgar flare amid the cool radiance of the stars, 如果这个世界不只是一个拙劣的恶作剧,如果人生不只是群星寒光中平凡的一闪,
4. But she had had a hard life and it had knocked the youth and good looks out of her. 但是她曾经过着很艰辛的生活,这种生活使她失去了青春和美貌。
5. Back in the good old days of stable economic expansion — the 1950s and 1960s — a person could choose to do something new, exciting, and creative in life but could also choose to say, "That's not for me: 回顾过去经济平稳发展的好时光--20世纪的50年代和60年代--人们可能会选择生活中某种既新鲜刺激,又有创意的事干,但是也可能会说:
6. But he brought his American baby girl with him, and a life-style flavoured with American ways. 但是他把在美国出生、尚在襁褓中的女儿及带有美国情调的生活方式也一起带了回来。
7. Bad as well as good moods add flavor to life and build character. The key is balance. 坏情绪和好情绪都给我们的生活增添了风味,也构成了我们的性格,关键是要平衡。
8. What do you think the purposes of college life are? 你认为大学生活的目标何在?
9. We must conclude from the work of those who have studied the origin of life, that 根据那些研究生命起源的人们所作的工作,我们必然得出这样的结论:
10. We have a feeling of expectancy. 我们有一种期待感.
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