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das Leben ☊ cuộc sống ☊ ☊
Ich möchte das Leben in einem anderen Land kennenlernen. ☊ Tôi muốn làm quen với cuộc sống ở một nước khác. ☊ (Lektion 103, Nr. 1738)
The girl's life was saved because the doctors acted so promptly. ☊ act ☊
Her quick action saved the child's life. ☊ action ☊
When you're a child, life is one big adventure. ☊ adventure ☊
Someone has made an attempt on the President's life. ☊ attempt ☊
I felt that going to live with my parents would be a step backwards. ☊ backwards ☊
Life is unfair. ☊ be ☊
capacity to do sth: your capacity to enjoy life ☊ capacity ☊
cost sb sth: That one mistake almost cost him his life. ☊ cost ☊
She didn't know what life in a foreign country would be like. ☊ country ☊
Children's lives are in danger every time they cross this road. ☊ danger ☊
Doctors were fighting a desperate battle to save the little girl's life. ☊ desperate ☊
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 ☊
I hope my job's safe. Life is hard enough as it is. ☊ enough ☊
Experience has taught me that life can be very unfair. ☊ experience ☊
Living in Africa was very different from home and quite an experience (= unusual for us). ☊ experience ☊
Life is full of coincidences. ☊ full ☊
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 ☊
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 ☊
The bomb blast left 25 people dead. ☊ leave ☊
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 ☊
Life can be difficult when you move to a new town. ☊ life ☊
Life isn't like in the movies, you know. ☊ life ☊
How do you find life in Japan? ☊ life ☊
The operation saved her life. ☊ life ☊
Several attempts have been made on the President's life (= several people have tried to kill him). ☊ life ☊
I love it in Spain (= I like the life there). ☊ love ☊
the life of the common people ☊ people ☊
She had persuaded herself that life was not worth living. ☊ persuade ☊
Living in Scotland has its good points but the weather is not one of them. ☊ point ☊
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 ☊
Although I expected to enjoy living in the country, in fact the reverse is true. ☊ reverse ☊
It's a sad reflection on life that it takes danger and suffering to bring people closer together. ☊ sad ☊
Thanks for doing that. You saved my life (= helped me a lot). ☊ save ☊
At the other end of the scale, life is a constant struggle to get enough to eat. ☊ scale ☊
Life's too short to sit around moping. ☊ short ☊
We stayed in a village where time has stood still (= life has not changed for many years). ☊ still ☊
The atmosphere of Mars could not support life. ☊ support ☊
Life's full of surprises. ☊ surprise ☊
She knew surprisingly little about her sister's life. ☊ surprisingly ☊
The storms took the lives of 50 people. ☊ take ☊
Life was harder then because neither of us had a job. ☊ then ☊
Life seems so unfair sometimes. ☊ unfair ☊
His best movie, which won several awards, was about the life of Gandhi. ☊ which ☊