0 something, especially a way of getting help, that you depend on to lead your life in a satisfactory way:
1 something, esp. a way of getting help, on which you depend:
Airplanes are this Alaskan town’s lifeline.
2 something that will help a person, organization, or country to continue to exist or operate in the same way:
He felt as if someone had removed his lifeline.
Nobody was allowed to leave, for fear they would inform, a dictate that interrupted the long-distance trading/exchange activities that were the communities' lifeline.
Both developmental and evolutionary processes are more than merely instructive or selective; the organism constructs itself, a process known as autopoiesis, through a lifeline trajectory.
V are the tensions in the lifeline and the helicopter cable.
How large is the tension in the lifeline?
In addition, many rural areas were traversed by the rail network, which gave them an additional lifeline and a link with main centres.
I imagine that, sinking under the weight of audits, tests, standards and the like, they will reach for it as for a lifeline.
When he denies her a word of recognition, she disappears, as if male speech is her only lifeline to the human world.
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命脈,生命線, (尤指海上救援的)救生索…
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命脉,生命线, (尤指海上救援的)救生索…
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salvamento, cuerda de salvamento…
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salvação, corda de salvamento…
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hayat bağı, can damarı, can kurtaran halatı…
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corde de sécurité…
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záchranné lano…
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livline…
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