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单词 life-and-death
释义
life-and-death
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˌlaɪf.ənˈdeθ/us
/ˌlaɪf.ənˈdeθ/
(alsolife-or-death)
involvingthepossibilitythat someone willdie:
生死攸关的（有人可能会丧生的）
We were now in a life-and-deathsituation.我们现在处于生死攸关的情形下。
veryimportantandserious:
生死攸关的（非常重要的，非常严肃的）
a life-and-deathmatter生死攸关的事
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Very important or urgent
(Definition oflife-and-deathfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflife-and-death

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The fact that the patient has arrived at thislife-and-deathpoint by a selfinflicted act is ethically relevant, but it is not dispositive.
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First, in distinction from the ordinary work of providing for people's basic needs, modern medicine often involves intensive interventions, with dramaticlife-and-deathresults.
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The outstanding questions may not be as urgent as thelife-and-deathmatters that first drove the development of liberalism.
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In any given simulation, choice of representation is of key importance, but it is rarely regarded as alife-and-deathideological issue whether these codes are local or distributed.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In alife-and-deathstruggle we cannot afford to have our destinies in the hands of failures or men who need a rest.
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Their fun comes from witnessing thelife-and-deathstruggle of fox and terrier.
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We have a social services inspectorate to deal with many of thelife-and-deathissues in which the social services departments are involved.
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I suggest that when we are engaged in alife-and-deathstruggle, political strategy is not the game to play.
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It became very large and it was a difficult but an absolutely necessary,life-and-deathtask to drive it forward to its conclusion.
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Access to high-level sign language interpretation is not only reasonable and justifiable, but it is essential inlife-and-deathcircumstances.
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To say that this is alife-and-deathissue is not to exaggerate.
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For many people, it is alife-and-deathissue.
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But we are engaged in alife-and-deathgrapple, and the real fighting has not yet begun.
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We are engaged in alife-and-deathstruggle, and great sacrifices are being called for.
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These immunities would be suspended if workers in thelife-and-deathservices made their dispute unlawful by refusing to honour the tribunal's findings.
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