pig iron，pigging，cast iron，foundry ingot ；

[例句] 生铁可含百分之四的碳. Pig iron may contain 4％ of carbon.

[例句] 独立战争前夕，北美十三州每年生产3万吨生铁。 On the eve of the Revolution, the colonies produced thirty thousand tons of crude iron a year.

cost of living，living expenses，[律] alimony ；

[例句] 雷求学期间会在当地的农场干活赚取生活费。 Ray will earn his keep on local farms while studying.

[例句] 咱俩把这笔钱平均分一下，每人每月的生活费还不到10英镑。 Averaging it out between us there's less than £10 a month each to live on.

[植] annual，ephemeral ；

[例句] 这种植物是耐寒的一年生植物. The kind of plant is a hardy annual.

[例句] 玉米是一年生植物. Corn is one of an annual.

postgraduate (student)，graduate student ；

[例句] 这所大学有着欢迎海外研究生就读的悠久传统。 The University has a well-established tradition of welcoming postgraduate students from overseas.

[例句] 可以自己做饭的公寓一般留给研究生住。 The self-catering flats are usually reserved for postgraduate students.

shell，quick lime，pellouxite，unslaked lime，calces ；

[例句] 这些生石灰是用来将氧混合在熔化的钢水中. The Calcium Oxide is used to mix oxygen with the steel.

[例句] “ 水泥 - 黏土 - 粉煤灰 - 生石灰 ” 固化浆液性能试验. Performance experiment on solidifying slurry of " cement - clay - fly ash - quicklime ; "

seek a livelihood，earn one's living，make a living，bring home the bacon，fend ；

[例句] 他靠教书与从事新闻工作谋生。 He made his living by a mixture of tutoring and journalism.

[例句] 谋生妙道啊！ What a lovely way to earn a living.

vitality，bionergy，entelechy，breath，libido ；

[例句] 小型企业是经济的生命力所在。 Small businesses are the lifeblood of the economy.

[例句] 他看上去病得很厉害—他的生命力似乎枯竭了。 He looked very ill—his life force seemed to have drained away.

means of livelihood，livelihood，bread，bread and butter，bread and cheese ；

[例句] 我胡乱给女性杂志写点东西，维持我们的生计。 I supported us by writing bilge for women's magazines.

[例句] 现在的生活水平几乎快要无法维持生计。 The standard of living today is on the edge of subsistence.

grow wild，be overflowing with，be full of，happen unexpectedly ；

[例句] 花坛里杂草横生。 The flower beds were overrun with grasses.

[例句] 伊莎贝尔送给我一张趣味横生的生日贺卡。 Isabel gave me a marvellously funny birthday card.

endogeny，endogenesis ；

[例句] 外生变量可以包括内生变量的后滞值. Exogenous variables can include lagged values of endogenous variables.

[例句] 内生植物是明显地被起源于寄生植物的膜包围的. The endophyte is surrounded by a membrane of apparent host plant origin.

hasten child delivery，expedite child delivery，hasten parturition，midwifery ；

[例句] 暴力会催生更多暴力。 Violence breeds violence.

[例句] 人的焦虑是后天反应，由日常生活中的事件催生和维系。 Your anxiety is a learned reaction, and it is nurtured and sustained by the events of your everyday life.

for fear that，so as not to，lest ；

[例句] 她轻轻拍了拍莫娜，小心翼翼地，生怕弄乱她的戏服。 She patted Mona, taking care not to disturb her costume.

[例句] 她吓坏了，生怕龙尼会绑架萨姆。 She was terrified that Ronnie would kidnap Sam.

tendency to grow，life and vitality；

[例句] 中午跟那帮生意上的朋友喝完酒后，他回来了。 He returned from a lunchtime drinking session with his business cronies.

[例句] 这种做生意的方式偷偷摸摸，遮遮掩掩。 It is a sneaky and underhand way of doing business.

（谋生活） earn a living，make a living；

[例句] 他们或许讨厌他的营生，但他们要想活下来必须依靠他。 They may hate what he does but their survival depends on him.

[例句] 养马确实是个有风险的营生。 Horse breeding is indeed a risky enterprise.

pupil，disciple ；

[例句] 多年以前, 叔祖 的学塾中有个聪明年少的门生. It'seemed many years ago, there was a clever young boy studying under my grand - uncle .

[例句] 她坐在她的朋友罗大夫的旁边, 他是巴斯特最忠实的门生. Her seat was next to her friend Dr Roux, who had been Pasteur's most devoted disciple.

名 Edison [英格兰人姓氏] 取自父名或母名，来源于Eade,含义是“伊德之子”(son of Eade)；

[例句] 爱迪生很年轻的时候就获得了发明家的声誉. Edison won his spurs as an inventor while rather young.

[例句] 这个年青人很聪明, 他可能成为爱迪生式的人. This young man is very clever; he may be another Edison.

[书] conserve one's health，keep fit，hygienism，regimen ；

[例句] 一生坎坷,备尝艰难,但是却能年逾古稀,自然令人对其摄生观感兴趣. Interestingly, he a long life of over seventy years old.

[例句] 《摄生秘剖》是明末儒医 洪基 所撰的一部融合诸家养生心理思想的专著. The secret of health care is a book written by Hongji an - physician in late Ming dynasty.

ecological niche ；

[例句] 每种动物都有自己的生态位. Each animal has its ecological niche.

[例句] 生态位: 生物体所占据生境的最小单位. Niche: Smallest unit of a habitat that is occupied by an organism.

career，profession，sand，[电影]Its All Gone Pete Tong；

[例句] 霍顿在英国石油公司漫长的职业生涯中曾经让两个部门整体上起死回生。 In his long career at BP, Horton turned around two entire divisions.

[例句] 他最终承认他的电影生涯走到尽头了。 He finally admitted that his film career was kaput.

（哀悼死者用语） immortal，eternal of life ；

[例句] 我向来觉得永生的想法很可怕。 I have always found the thought of eternity terrifying.

[例句] 整个宇宙在无限的空间中永生。 The whole universe exists eternally in that one infinite being.