life-support
生命支持,生命维持,生命保障,生命支援
Definitions
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- : of or relating to equipment or measures that sustain or artificially substitute for essential body functions, as breathing or disposal of body wastes: Without life-support equipment, the patient might die.
- : of or relating to equipment or measures that provide, within a surrounding hostile environment, as outer space or ocean depths, a life-sustaining environment similar to that found on the earth's surface: the life-support system of a spacecraft or submarine.
- : of or relating to anything that fosters or sustains life, success, or continued existence, as of a person, thing, or nation: the life-support system of the economy.
Examples
“I do not support gay marriages being recognized in Florida,” he wrote Andrew Walther of Sanford.
His life as a man is built around health insurance and tax services.
It was also an attack on our freedom of expression and way of life.
If the Israel model ban were directed towards disordered eating, Ravin says she would support it whole-heartedly.
I always wanted my life to be that way, and it became that way.
Now, it immediately occurred to Davy that he had never in his whole life had all the plums he wanted at any one time.
Dean Swift was indeed a misanthrope by theory, however he may have made exception to private life.
We shall recover again some or all of the steadfastness and dignity of the old religious life.
It is the dramatic impulse of childhood endeavouring to bring life into the dulness of the serious hours.
Woman is mistress of the art of completely embittering the life of the person on whom she depends.