way of life

英 [weɪ ɒv laɪf]

美 [weɪ əv laɪf]

n.  典型行为模式;特有生活方式; 生活的一部分

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柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 典型行为模式;特有生活方式
  Away of lifeis the behaviour and habits that are typical of a particular person or group, or that are chosen by them.
  1. Mining activities have totally disrupted the traditional way of life of the Yanomami Indians.
     采矿已经彻底扰乱了扬诺马米印第安人传统的生活方式。
• N-COUNT 生活的一部分
  If you describe a particular activity asa way of lifefor someone, you mean that it has become a very important and regular thing in their life, rather than something they do or experience occasionally.
  1. She likes it so much it's become a way of life for her.
     她太喜欢它了，它已经成为了她生活的一部分。
  2. ...cities where violence is a way of life.
     暴力随处可见的城市

英英释义

noun

• a course of conduct
  1. the path of virtue
  2. we went our separate ways
  3. our paths in life led us apart
  4. genius usually follows a revolutionary path
  Synonym:waypath

双语例句

• My way of life was a frenzy then, and I loved it.
  我那时的生活有一点疯狂，但我爱极了这种方式。
• For its performers, it is pure artistic expression and a way of life.
  为其执行者，这是纯净的艺术性的表达式和生活方式。
• Foreign countries have a different way of life from ours.
  外国的生活方式和我们的不同。
• This way of life can lead only to self-destruction and emotional emptiness.
  这种生活方式只会导致自我毁灭和情绪空虚。
• It would help to end illiteracy and disease, but it would also dislocate a traditional way of life
  这将有助于消除文盲和疾病，但也会扰乱传统的生活方式。
• A way of life is irretrievably passing, as the conditions of postmodernity bring with bewildering changes.
  随着后现代环境带来了令人困惑的变化，一种生活方式无可挽回地成为了过去。
• If you study a culture group's way of life you are studying its culture.
  当在研究学习一个文化群体的生活方式时，你是在学习其文化。
• Feeling uncomfortable in a strange country or place because of the different habits and way of life.
  在一个陌生的国家或地方由于不同的生活习惯和生活方式产生的不舒服的感觉。
• They refuse to give up their own customs and way of life.
  他们拒绝放弃他们自己的习俗和生活方式。
• They gave up their regular jobs and high salaries, and started a new way of life.
  他们放弃了稳定的工作和高昂的薪水，开始了一种新的生活方式。