Lifetime

(n.) The time that life continues.

校对:露辛达

• This is the chance of my lifetime in that direction. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Asks his mother to become, with him, a spy upon his father's transactions through a lifetime! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Like drama which compresses the tragedy of a lifetime into a unity of time, place, and action, history foreshortens an epoch into an episode. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Every pulse of loverlike feeling which had not been stilled during Eustacia's lifetime had gone into the grave with her. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• If she died before her husband, he would naturally expect to be left in the enjoyment of the income, for HIS lifetime. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It took him at least ten years to pay off his college bills contracted during his father's lifetime. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• One lifetime is too short, and I am busy every day improving essential parts of my established industries. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It never moves more than three times in a lifetime. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• In my poor mother's lifetime, she went on, her friends were not always my friends, too. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I tried to say that I had never seen the dead man in his lifetime--that there was no hope of identifying him by means of a stranger like me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• A full lifetime would be required to plant the crop, and a second generation would be required to reap it. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In the old days people devoted a lifetime to it. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Not a lifetime, not to live together, not to have what people were always supposed to have, not at all. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Few Moors can ever build up their fortunes again in one short lifetime after so reckless an outlay. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It is certain that several of our eminent breeders have, even within a single lifetime, modified to a large extent their breeds of cattle and sheep. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Such conditions are often minutely represented in our petty lifetimes. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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