lifeline 的定义
- a line, fired across a ship or boat, by means of which a hawser for a breeches buoy may be hauled aboard.
- a line or rope for saving life, as one attached to a lifeboat.
- any of various lines running above the decks, spars, etc., of a ship or boat to give sailors something to grasp when there is danger of falling or being washed away.
- a wire safety rope supported by stanchions along the edge of the deck of a yacht.
- the line by which a diver is lowered and raised.
- any of several anchored lines used by swimmers for support.
- a route or means of transportation or communication for receiving or delivering food, medicine, or assistance: This road is the town's lifeline and must be kept open despite the snow.
- assistance at a critical time.
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- There are also few other ways to look at this deal, beyond Uber’s own decision to double down on its lifeline in the pandemic, food delivery.
- The stimulus check he just received was a lifeline for food and rent.
- A federal economic relief package passed by Congress in March promised to provide a lifeline for hospitals, particularly those in rural communities where many facilities struggled to survive even before the coronavirus pandemic.
- Yet not all lower- and middle-income nations are waiting for a lifeline.
- In the midst of a pandemic, when companies of all sizes have struggled, Amazon undoubtedly extended a lifeline to more than a few.
- These images, videos and messages became a lifeline between two worlds and a stark record of the distance between them.
- They severed the last railroad lifeline into Atlanta, making the Citadel of the Confederacy as it was touted no longer tenable.
- The third and final “lifeline” asked whether von Trier related to his female protagonists as well as his male ones.
- The second “lifeline” was what von Trier had learned about female sexuality by making Nymphomaniac.
- To step inside Madison Square Garden was to grab hold of a lifeline to an alternate world of harmonic order and balance.
- Ten months of siege followed as Grant methodically cut the Confederate 39 lifeline.
- Even so, he didn't unshackle his inward-reeling lifeline till he was inside the chamber.
- Occasionally a lifeline was rigged along the well deck to the poop quarters, a by no means unnecessary precaution.
- A cheer burst from the throats of the Boy Scouts as they tailed on the lifeline, and walked backward from the tree with it.
- Even these hardy men of the wild dared not venture beyond their door without the lifeline which was always kept handy.