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Life English German Germanic Alive Leib Dutch Living

正面 115.life
英 [laɪf]美 [laɪf]

背面
释义:
n. 生活,生存;寿命
例句:
1. No matter where you go in life or how old you get, there's always something new to learn about. After all, life is full of surprises.不管你生活在哪里,你有多少岁,总有新东西要学习,毕竟,生活总是充满惊喜。

1. 谐音“无man”-----也就是“无男人”,那自然就全是女人、妇女了,想想“女儿国”吧,要是咱身在女儿国得多幸福啊!想想都觉得爽啊!啪!小强你这贱人又开始YY了!
life 生命来自古英语life,存在,生命,来自PIE*leip,停留,持续,词源同live,leave.比较world.life ’s work 毕身成就比喻用法。
lifelife: [OE] Prehistoric Germanic *līb- denoted ‘remain, be left’. From this was formed the noun *lībam, which in due course produced English life (the semantic connection between ‘remaining’ and life – and the closely related live – is thought to lie in the notion of being ‘left alive after a battle’). Of the noun’s Germanic relatives, Swedish and Danish liv still mean ‘life’, but German leib and Dutch liff have moved on semantically to ‘body’. English alive is a derivative of life, not of the verb live.=> livelife (n.)Old English life (dative lif) "existence, lifetime, way of life, condition of being a living thing, opposite of death," from Proto-Germanic *libam (cognates: Old Norse lif "life, body," Dutch lijf "body," Old High German lib "life," German Leib "body"), properly "continuance, perseverance," from PIE *leip- "to remain, persevere, continue; stick, adhere" (see leave (v.)). Much of the modern range of meanings was present in Old English. Meaning "property which distinguishes living from non-living matter" is from 1560s. Sense of "vitality, energy" is from 1580s. Extended 1703 to "term of duration (of inanimate objects)." Life-jacket is from 1840; life-preserver from 1630s of anything that is meant to save a life, 1803 of devices worn to prevent drowning. Life-saver is from 1883, figurative use from 1909, as a brand of hard sugar candy, from 1912, so called for shape. Life-form is from 1861. Life cycle is from 1855."

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