life-work

英汉释义

• na.

  1.毕生事业;一生中最重要的工作

英英释义

• n.

  1.something that is the product, result, or culmination of somebody's working life

英汉例句

• 1.Attracted to a lifework that combined daily artistic creativity with immediate usefulness, she decided this was the profession she wanted.

  吸引到结合每日的艺术创造力和立即的有用lifework，她决定这是她的职业。

• 2.Zwingli was soon called from Basel to enter upon his lifework.

  不久，萨文黎从巴塞尔被召去从事他一生的工作。

• 3.When he conceived of natural selection, he didn't plan a 10-volume lifework.

  他在构思自然选择学说的时候，并没有打算用一生的工作写一部长达10卷的著作。