名 life，fate，lot，fortune；动 order，appoint，assign；

[例句] 多亏一块1/4英寸厚的防弹钢板，他才捡了条命。 His life was saved by a quarter-inch-thick bullet-proof steel screen.

[例句] 很快，整个武装部队开始公然抗命。 Soon the entire armed forces were in open revolt.

order，command，directive，instruction，adjure；

[例句] 他命令他们把几个枕头叠放在自己的背后。 He ordered them to stack up pillows behind his back.

[例句] 上校命令道：“尽快给我找两台性能好的发动机来。” The colonel ordered, "I want two good engines down here asap."

life span，life，age，lifetime，life-span ；

[例句] 如果汽车采用更多塑料元件，寿命会更长一些。 If you build more plastics into cars, the car lasts longer.

[例句] 这些电池的寿命为6小时。 The batteries had a life span of six hours.

life，vita，vivi-，bio-，anima ；

[例句] 她已经戒了毒，并且认识到了生命可贵。 She's kicked her drug habit and learned that her life has value.

[例句] 他认为婴儿几乎就是毫无生命的物体。 He thought of the baby almost as an inanimate object.

nominate，nomenclature，name，baptize，call ；

[例句] 一颗不为人知的行星被命名为“祝融”。 The name Vulcan was given to the undiscovered planet.

[例句] 皮兰德娄把他的戏剧命名为《六个寻找作者的剧中人》。 Pirandello titled his play "Six Characters in Search of an Author"

revolution，revolutionary，overturn，[电影]Revolution；

assign a topic，set a question，[逻]proposition，statement ；

[例句] 这个命题经得起推敲吗？ How well does this thesis stand up to close examination?

[例句] 两个队准备就所给定的命题展开辩论. The two teams prepared to debate the given proposition.

die young，be short-lived，ephemerality ；

[例句] 在无胚乳的种子中, 胚乳是 短命 的. In exalbuminous seeds, the endosperm is short - lived.

[例句] 你们的结合通常深厚刺激但却很短命. This union is usually hot , heavy and short lived.

destiny，fate，fortune，kismet，[电影]Destinies；

[例句] 面对遭征服的悲惨命运，他们保持了乐观的态度。 They have maintained their optimism in the face of desolating subjugation.

[例句] 他们这些老人将他的命运掌握在手心里。 They held his fate in the palms of their ancient hands.

God's will，the mandate of heaven，destiny，fate，fatality；

[例句] 他的统治乃是天命。 His rule was ordained by heaven.

[例句] 天命不慆久矣. Long has there been no doubt of Heaven's mandate.

causing death，fatal，mortal，deadly，deadliness ；

[例句] 这些障碍物对于想要往上游游动的鱼儿来说是致命的。 The barriers are lethal to fish trying to swim upstream.

[例句] 很难判断是谁给了致命的一击。 It is impossible to say who struck the fatal blow.

mission，[电影]La Mission；

[例句] 对总统安全的担忧可能会给他的调解使命蒙上阴影。 Fears for the President's safety could overshadow his peace-making mission.

[例句] 他认为从事祷告和门徒的工作是他的使命。 He saw his vocation as one of prayer and apostolic work.

risk one's life，defy death，put up a desperate fight，do sth. desperately，at full split ；

[例句] 他催促所有人拼命干活，直到生产遭遇瓶颈。 He pushed everyone full speed ahead until production hit a bottleneck.

[例句] 鲨鱼拼命挣扎，试图逃脱。 The shark was writhing around wildly, trying to get free.

life ；

[例句] 我们已经失去了一切，不过谢天谢地，总算是保住了性命。 We have lost everything, but thank God, our lives have been spared.

[例句] 子弹穿过动脉，他失血过多几乎性命不保。 He almost bled to death after the bullet severed an artery.

lifeblood，lifeline，life line，vitals ；

[例句] 旅游业是这座城市的命脉。 Tourism is the lifeblood of the city.

[例句] 贸易是我国的命脉. Trade is the lifeblood of our country.

one's very life，life-line，lifeblood，one's dearest child ；

[例句] 这男孩是他父母的命根子. The boy is the lifeblood of his parents.

[例句] 诗和艺术是她的命根子. Poetry and art are the breathe of life to her.

（救人性命） save sb.'s life，（呼救声） Help!，help，[电影]Koma；

[例句] 他紧紧抓着住倾覆的小船，高呼救命。 He clung to the upturned boat, screaming for help.

[例句] “救命！”我尖叫道，转身就跑。 "Help!" I screamed, turning to run.

consider oneself，regard oneself as，pretend ；

[例句] 他说话总是显得自命清高。 He has always sounded holier-than-thou.

[例句] 他有时就是自命高人一头. He does get above himself sometimes.

vitamin ；

[例句] 大型褐藻富含维他命和微量元素. Kelp is rich in vitamins and trace elements.

[例句] 我爸爸非常相信这些维他命药片. My father swears by these vitamin pills.

determined by fate，predestined ；

[例句] 他描述了为有德行的所命定的那个纯洁、无邪欲的天堂. He described that pure and unsensual heaven destined to the virtuous.

[例句] 真怪,那命定的恐怖,就在他的脑际时隐时现. It was curious how that predestined horror moved in and out of one's consciousness.