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lifeblood

/lahyf-bluhd/US // ˈlaɪfˌblʌd //UK // (ˈlaɪfˌblʌd) //

命根子,生命之源,命脉,生命之血

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the blood, considered as essential to maintain life: to spill one's lifeblood in war.
    • : a life-giving, vital, or animating element: Agriculture is the lifeblood of the country.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inlife

Examples

  • Recruiting is the lifeblood of any program, and that’s where Frese shines.

  • The revenue is the lifeblood of the company and being part of the team gives me sense of fulfillment.

  • Hard “key performance indicators” or KPIs, such as number of calls, meetings, leads, and closes per month, supply the lifeblood to sales teams.

  • Recruiting is the lifeblood of any program, and historically, the top programs have all been located in fertile recruiting areas.

  • “Innovation is the lifeblood of this company,” Dorer said in an interview this summer.

  • This is the heart of the agent recruitment process that is the lifeblood of CIA today.

  • This is because immigrants are the lifeblood of the U.S. economy.

  • ISTANBUL, Turkey — The lifeblood of the death-dealing Islamic State is diesel fuel.

  • Negotiation and compromise are the lifeblood of democracy, not poison to the body politic.

  • As an evangelical, that sort of contrarianism is in my lifeblood.

  • So speaks he, and takes the sword in his throat unfalteringly, and the lifeblood spreads in a wave over his armour.

  • Survey was the soul and lifeblood of the medical services supplied by Hospital Earth to the inhabited planets of the Galaxy.

  • The poor victim sank upon the floor, the lifeblood streaming from her heart.

  • That cancer is eating away the heart and corrupting the very lifeblood of this nation.

  • They delighted too much, to look upon the lifeblood flowing from the heart; and accordingly shed it most profusely.