📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- n a characteristic state or mode of living
- n the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
- n the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living
- n the condition of living or the state of being alive
- n the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)
- n the period between birth and the present time
- n the period from the present until death
- n a living person
- n animation and energy in action or expression
- n living things collectively
- n the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones
- n an account of the series of events making up a person's life
- n a motive for living
- n a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives