way of life

英 [weɪ ɒv laɪf]

美 [weɪ əv laɪf]

n.  典型行为模式;特有生活方式; 生活的一部分

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柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 典型行为模式;特有生活方式
  Away of lifeis the behaviour and habits that are typical of a particular person or group, or that are chosen by them.
  1. Mining activities have totally disrupted the traditional way of life of the Yanomami Indians.
     采矿已经彻底扰乱了扬诺马米印第安人传统的生活方式。
• N-COUNT 生活的一部分
  If you describe a particular activity asa way of lifefor someone, you mean that it has become a very important and regular thing in their life, rather than something they do or experience occasionally.
  1. She likes it so much it's become a way of life for her.
     她太喜欢它了，它已经成为了她生活的一部分。
  2. ...cities where violence is a way of life.
     暴力随处可见的城市

英英释义

noun

• a course of conduct
  1. the path of virtue
  2. we went our separate ways
  3. our paths in life led us apart
  4. genius usually follows a revolutionary path
  Synonym:waypath

双语例句

• A way of life is irretrievably passing, as the conditions of postmodernity bring with bewildering changes.
  随着后现代环境带来了令人困惑的变化，一种生活方式无可挽回地成为了过去。
• Do you think my way of life would suit you?
  你认为我的生活方式对你合适吗？
• The way of life is attained through deliberate thought but ruined by casual negligence.
  行成于思，毁于随。
• Design is a way of life; it's all around us.
  设计是一种生活方式，它就在我们身边。
• He has turned his back on his past way of life.
  他脱离了过去的生活方式。
• This move to the American southwest influenced his way of life and thought.
  这次向美国西南的迁移，的确影响了他的生活方式和思想方式。
• They refuse to give up their own customs and way of life.
  他们拒绝放弃他们自己的习俗和生活方式。
• The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
  生活本可以是自由且美好的，但是我们迷失了方向。
• They have met this terrible catastrophe with seemingly boundless strength and character in defense of their way of life.
  面对巨大的灾难他们表现出的是为保卫家园和生活的无限力量和不屈的品质。
• It would help to end illiteracy and disease, but it would also dislocate a traditional way of life
  这将有助于消除文盲和疾病，但也会扰乱传统的生活方式。