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lifelong

/lahyf-lawng, -long/US // ˈlaɪfˌlɔŋ, -ˌlɒŋ //UK // (ˈlaɪfˌlɒŋ) //

一生,一生一世,一生中,终身

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : lasting or continuing through all or much of one's life: lifelong regret.

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Examples

  • She described herself as a lifelong Republican who voted for every one of the party’s nominees before 2016.

  • They not only defend the lifelong disenfranchisement of ex-convicts, they use control of the courts to subvert referendums that pass to reenfranchise them.

  • Toys that teach coding can spark a lifelong interest in programming.

  • The condition causes tremendous pain and lifelong health issues, and currently doesn’t have a cure.

  • First, his emphasis on being a lifelong learner, always trying to read and learn more from one’s experiences—especially the failures.

  • In January 2014, a lifelong District of Columbia parks employee, Medric Mills, collapsed while walking with his grown daughter.

  • The former apprentice engineer retained a lifelong interest in the way things worked.

  • (That Williams was a lifelong Democrat illustrates the political blurred lines when it comes to laws related to pregnant women).

  • Perhaps the greatest irony remains that civil rights titan Caesar Chavez was a lifelong opponent of illegal immigration.

  • George Carlin had a lifelong love of learning and questioned everything.

  • He thought of her; but truth to tell he was too numbed to dwell on her agony, on the certitude of her lifelong captivity.

  • This ever after made them hate the French as cordially as they did their lifelong enemies, the Algonquin Indians.

  • She is no longer here to praise and encourage—my lifelong work,—a failure!

  • He stopped suddenly in his smile, remembering Demorest's lifelong secret.

  • Wedding presents are lifelong records of relationship and of friendship.