life, existence ☊ 
寿命 → ☊ like: cuộc sống → →
das Leben ☊ 
cuộc sống ☊ 
☊ das Nachtleben ☊ cuộc sống về đêm ☊ ☊ Der Schütze sucht den Sinn des Lebens und braucht seinen persönlichen Freiraum. ☊ Nhân mã thì luôn tìm kiếm ý nghĩa của cuộc sống và cần không gian riêng. ☊ (Lektion 80, Nr. 1143) Ein neues Leben ☊ Một cuộc sống mới ☊ (Lektion 82, Nr. 1160) Und hier habe ich noch ein Geschenk für dich: den neuen Sprachkurs fürs Berufsleben von sprachenlernen24! ☊ Và đây anh còn một món quà cho em: một khóa học cho cuộc sống nghề nghiệp tại nơi học tiếng 24! ☊ (Lektion 84, Nr. 1203) Ich möchte das Leben in einem anderen Land kennenlernen. ☊ Tôi muốn làm quen với cuộc sống ở một nước khác. ☊ (Lektion 103, Nr. 1738) Was sind Ihre Ziele im Privatleben? ☊ Mục tiêu của anh / chị là gì trong cuộc sống riêng? ☊ (Lektion 108, Nr. 1929) Worauf sind Sie in Ihrem Leben besonders stolz? ☊ Trong cuộc sống anh / chị tự hào đặc biệt về cái gì? ☊ (Lektion 108, Nr. 1930) Wie planen Sie Ihr Privatleben in den kommenden Jahren? ☊ Anh / Chị lập kế hoạch cho cuộc sống riêng trong những năm tới thế nào? ☊ (Lektion 108, Nr. 1933) Für Ihre berufliche und private Zukunft wünschen wir Ihnen alles Gute. ☊ Chúng tôi chúc anh / chị mọi điều tốt nhất trong sự nghiệp và cuộc sống riêng. ☊ (Lektion 109, Nr. 1991) The girl's life was saved because the doctors acted so promptly. ☊ act ☊
She takes an active part in school life. ☊ active ☊
adjust yourself to sth: You'll quickly adjust yourself to student life. ☊ adjust ☊
preparing young people for adult life ☊ adult ☊
One advantage of/One of the advantages of living in the country is the fresh air. ☊ advantage ☊
When you're a child, life is one big adventure. ☊ adventure ☊
She's happy with her unusual living arrangements. ☊ arrangement ☊
The book aims to cover all aspects of city life. ☊ aspect ☊
City life holds little attraction for me. ☊ attraction ☊
She tries to balance home life and career. ☊ balance ☊
Life is unfair. ☊ be ☊
The birth of their first child marked the beginning of a new era in their married life. ☊ beginning ☊
The area has a wealth of bird life. ☊ bird ☊
We want to build a better life. ☊ build ☊
These finds help us build up a picture of life in the Middle Ages. ☊ build sth up ☊
My private life is none of your business (= does not concern you). ☊ business ☊
a very busy life ☊ busy ☊
calculate how much, what, etc.: It is impossible to calculate what influence he had on her life. ☊ calculate ☊
capacity to do sth: your capacity to enjoy life ☊ capacity ☊
'Do you think all this money will change your life?' 'Certainly not.' ☊ certainly ☊
Her life changed completely when she won the lottery. ☊ change ☊
For the first time in years, she felt in command of her life. ☊ command ☊
life in contemporary Britain ☊ contemporary ☊
The poverty of her childhood stands in total contrast to her life in Hollywood. ☊ contrast ☊
count doing sth: Few people can count on having a job for life. ☊ count on sb/sth ☊
She didn't know what life in a foreign country would be like. ☊ country ☊
events affecting the daily lives of millions of people ☊ daily ☊
Children's lives are in danger every time they cross this road. ☊ danger ☊
Do you believe in life after death? ☊ death ☊
My boss is making life very difficult for me. ☊ difficult ☊
He saw life as a voyage of discovery. ☊ discovery ☊
Life in a small town could be deadly dull. ☊ dull ☊
the history of life on earth ☊ earth ☊
I'll agree to anything for an easy life. ☊ easy ☊
embarrass sb: Her questions about my private life embarrassed me. ☊ embarrass ☊
I've never felt so embarrassed in my life! ☊ embarrassed ☊
My life seems empty without you. ☊ empty ☊
I hope my job's safe. Life is hard enough as it is. ☊ enough ☊
For her, travel was an escape from the boredom of her everyday life. ☊ escape ☊
The museum contains some interesting exhibits on Spanish rural life. ☊ exhibit ☊
Does life exist on other planets? ☊ exist ☊
The family endured a miserable existence in a cramped apartment. ☊ existence ☊
We led a poor but happy enough existence as children. ☊ existence ☊
Experience has taught me that life can be very unfair. ☊ experience ☊
Everyone experiences these problems at some time in their lives. ☊ experience ☊
My home life was becoming no more than an extension of my job. ☊ extension ☊
The pollution of the forest has seriously affected plant life and, to a lesser extent, wildlife. ☊ to... extent ☊
The book discusses the extent to which (= how much) family life has changed over the past 50 years. ☊ to... extent ☊
She had to face the fact that her life had changed forever. ☊ face ☊
family life ☊ family ☊
people who enjoy the finer things in life (= for example art, good food, etc.) ☊ fine ☊
After her death, their lives changed forever. ☊ forever ☊
a trouble-free life ☊ free ☊
I have no ambitions other than to have a happy life and be free. ☊ free ☊
He'd had a very full life. ☊ full ☊
Her life was too full to find time for hobbies. ☊ full ☊
Life is full of coincidences. ☊ full ☊
My life is further complicated by having to work such long hours. ☊ further ☊
This is a crucial year for your relationships in general and your love life in particular. ☊ in general ☊
the gift of life ☊ gift ☊
How's it going (= is your life enjoyable, successful, etc. at the moment)? ☊ go ☊
She has tried to lead a good life. ☊ good ☊
Great art has the power to change lives. ☊ great ☊
We've all been guilty of selfishness at some time in our lives. ☊ guilty ☊
She's had a hard life. ☊ hard ☊
He hated it in France (= did not like the life there). ☊ hate ☊
She was glowing with health and clearly enjoying life. ☊ health ☊
Her parents made her life hell. ☊ hell ☊
a holy life/man ☊ holy ☊
He left home (= left his parents and began an independent life) at sixteen. ☊ home ☊
a terrible loss of human life ☊ human ☊
I had no idea she'd had such a difficult life. ☊ have no idea, not have the faintest, first, etc. idea ☊
the basic essentials of life, i.e. housing, food and water ☊ i.e. ☊
I can't imagine life without the children now. ☊ imagine ☊
an immoral act/life/person ☊ immoral ☊
influence sb/sth: His writings have influenced the lives of millions. ☊ influence ☊
For years we had little knowledge of what life was like inside China. ☊ inside ☊
a search for intelligent life on other planets ☊ intelligent ☊
I don't think my private life is the issue here. ☊ issue ☊
I feel there is something lacking in my life. ☊ lacking ☊
In later life he started playing golf. ☊ late ☊
to lead a quiet life/a life of luxury/a miserable existence ☊ lead ☊
This is a great holiday resort that is full of life. ☊ life ☊
the worries of everyday life ☊ life ☊
He is young and has little experience of life. ☊ life ☊
Commuting is a part of daily life for many people. ☊ life ☊
Jill wants to travel and see life for herself. ☊ life ☊
We bought a dishwasher to make life easier. ☊ life ☊
In London life can be hard. ☊ life ☊
In real life (= when she met him) he wasn't how she had imagined him at all. ☊ life ☊
Life can be difficult when you move to a new town. ☊ life ☊
Life isn't like in the movies, you know. ☊ life ☊
country/city life ☊ life ☊
She enjoyed political life. ☊ life ☊
family/married life ☊ life ☊
How do you find life in Japan? ☊ life ☊
He has had a good life. ☊ life ☊
a hard/an easy life ☊ life ☊
My day-to-day life is not very exciting. ☊ life ☊
a life of luxury ☊ life ☊
Her daily life involved meeting lots of people. ☊ life ☊
She lived a quiet life in the countryside. ☊ life ☊
Many of these children have led very sheltered lives (= they have not had many different experiences). ☊ life ☊
They emigrated to start a new life in Canada. ☊ life ☊
He doesn't like to talk about his private life. ☊ life ☊
She has a full social life. ☊ life ☊
articles about the love lives of the stars ☊ life ☊
to have a long/short life ☊ life ☊
There's no such thing as a job for life any longer. ☊ life ☊
in early/adult life ☊ life ☊
They were very happy throughout their married life. ☊ life ☊
The International Stock Exchange started life as a London coffee shop. ☊ life ☊
They could see that the company had a limited life (= it was going to close). ☊ life ☊
marine/pond life ☊ life ☊
Is there intelligent life on other planets? ☊ life ☊
My father died last year—I wish I could bring him back to life. ☊ life ☊
In spring the countryside bursts into life. ☊ life ☊
The floods caused a massive loss of life (= many people were killed). ☊ life ☊
live sth: She lived a very peaceful life. ☊ live ☊
They lived their lives to the full. ☊ live ☊
He lost his looks (= became less attractive) in later life. ☊ look ☊
The drought has led to widespread loss of life. ☊ loss ☊
I love it in Spain (= I like the life there). ☊ love ☊
It's important to try and make something of (= achieve sth in) your life. ☊ make ☊
Are you enjoying married life? ☊ married ☊
Her life seemed to have lost all meaning. ☊ meaning ☊
Having a child gave new meaning to their lives. ☊ meaning ☊
It was a chance meeting that would change my life. ☊ meeting ☊
Stress is a major problem of modern life. ☊ modern ☊
He led a very moral life. ☊ moral ☊
the narrow confines of prison life ☊ narrow ☊
She went to Australia to start a new life. ☊ new ☊
He should be able to lead a perfectly normal life. ☊ normal ☊
All the characters in the novel are closely observed (= seem like people in real life). ☊ observe ☊
It was time she put her life in order. ☊ order ☊
the origins of life on earth ☊ origin ☊
I prefer the relaxed pace of life in the country. ☊ pace ☊
a life full of pain and suffering ☊ pain ☊
They say she has a 'past' (= bad things in her past life that she wishes to keep secret). ☊ past ☊
pay (with sth): Many people paid with their lives (= they died). ☊ pay ☊
He had a peaceful life. ☊ peaceful ☊
the peaks and troughs of married life ☊ peak ☊
the life of the common people ☊ people ☊
I try not to let work interfere with my personal life. ☊ personal ☊
She had persuaded herself that life was not worth living. ☊ persuade ☊
I'm fed up with living with my parents, so I'm looking for a place of my own. ☊ place ☊
the pleasure and pains of everyday life ☊ pleasure ☊
Chocolate is one of life's little pleasures. ☊ pleasure ☊
Many people suffer from mental illness at some point in their lives. ☊ point ☊
power (over sb/sth): The aim is to give people more power over their own lives. ☊ power ☊
How can anyone enjoy the pressures of city life? ☊ pressure ☊
a politician's private life ☊ private ☊
She entered public life (= started a job in which she became known to the public) at the age of 25. ☊ public ☊
Volunteer work gives her life (a sense of) purpose. ☊ purpose ☊
put doing sth: The accident put her off driving for life. ☊ put sb off sth/sb ☊
Their quality of life improved dramatically when they moved to France. ☊ quality ☊
They lead a quiet life. ☊ quiet ☊
She said, and I quote, 'Life is meaningless without love.' ☊ quote ☊
+ speech: 'The man who is tired of London is tired of life,' he quoted. ☊ quote ☊
In the movies guns kill people instantly, but it's not like that in real life. ☊ real ☊
the harsh realities of life ☊ reality ☊
'I've had a wonderful life,' she said, 'I don't regret a thing.' ☊ regret ☊
relief from sth: The calm of the countryside came as a welcome relief from the hustle and bustle of city life. ☊ relief ☊
the basic requirements of life ☊ requirement ☊
In those days women led fairly restricted lives. ☊ restricted ☊
Although I expected to enjoy living in the country, in fact the reverse is true. ☊ reverse ☊
She leads a rich and varied life. ☊ rich ☊
If we go to war, innocent lives will be put at risk. ☊ at risk (from/of sth) ☊
You have no right to take risks with other people's lives. ☊ take a risk, take risks ☊
a romantic view of life ☊ romantic ☊
He was determined to build a new life out of the ruins of his career. ☊ ruin ☊
Without unwritten rules civilized life would be impossible. ☊ rule ☊
Her life had always run smoothly before. ☊ run ☊
Stop trying to run my life (= organize it) for me. ☊ run ☊
It's a sad reflection on life that it takes danger and suffering to bring people closer together. ☊ sad ☊
At the other end of the scale, life is a constant struggle to get enough to eat. ☊ scale ☊
the security of a loving family life ☊ security ☊
She has lost all sense of direction in her life. ☊ sense ☊
For the past three years they have been leading totally separate lives. ☊ separate ☊
Bob told Jess he wanted to share his life with her. ☊ share ☊
Life's too short to sit around moping. ☊ short ☊
There was no sign of life in the house (= there seemed to be nobody there). ☊ sign ☊
a busy social life ☊ social ☊
In spite of his age, he still leads an active life. ☊ in spite of sth ☊
start sth (as sth): He started life as a teacher before turning to journalism. ☊ start ☊
She's moving abroad to make a fresh start (= to begin a new life). ☊ start ☊
We stayed in a village where time has stood still (= life has not changed for many years). ☊ still ☊
You will learn to cope with the stresses and strains of public life. ☊ strain ☊
life as a struggling artist (= one who is very poor) ☊ struggle ☊
success (in sth): They didn't have much success in life. ☊ success ☊
The atmosphere of Mars could not support life. ☊ support ☊
Life's full of surprises. ☊ surprise ☊
That incident changed their lives. ☊ that ☊
Life was harder then because neither of us had a job. ☊ then ☊
Life seems so unfair sometimes. ☊ unfair ☊
a degree from the university of life ☊ the university of life ☊
urban life ☊ urban ☊
He led a full and varied life. ☊ varied ☊
He has an optimistic view of life. ☊ view ☊
The novelty of married life was beginning to wear off. ☊ wear off ☊
They had little contact with the outside world (= people and places that were not part of their normal life). ☊ world ☊