lifeline
生命线,命脉,生活线
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Definitions
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- : 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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Examples
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.