life-saving

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++ˈlife-ˌsaving1, lifesaving /ˈlaɪfˌseɪvɪŋ/ adjective [only before noun] life-saving medical treatments or equipment are used to help save people’s lives 挽救生命的，保命的life-saving surgery/treatment/drugs etc The boy needs a life-saving transplant operation. 这个男孩需要做移植手术来保命。

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life-saving• Critics maintain excessive regulation can stand in the way of business expansion and faster approval of life-saving drugs.• But a craft that size would carry alternative life-saving equipment.• Sometimes, cowboys use more heroic life-saving measures, lifting weak cattle into trucks so they can be hauled to greener pastures.• For that he was awarded his first life-saving medal.• It involved another Down's baby, a girl called Alexandra, who required a life-saving operation to remove an intestinal obstruction.• The 59-year-old star needed two life-saving operation to remove blood clots and was left in a deep coma after brain surgery.• And the first indications were that his potential life-saving operation went well.• a life-saving operation• Dramatic life-saving techniques, organ transplants and similar developments have popular appeal.

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life-saving2, lifesaving /ˈlaɪfˌseɪvɪŋ/ noun [uncountable] DSSthe skills necessary to save a person from drowning 〔救溺水者的〕救生术 All of the staff have been trained in lifesaving. 所有员工都受过水中救生培训。

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life-saving• Even those doctors who practise in areas remote from hospitals do relatively little life-saving.

ˈlife-ˌsaving1 adjectivelife-saving2 nounChineseSyllable

life-saving treatments or used medical are equipment Corpus

life-saving

ˈlife-ˌsaving¹

, life‧sav‧ing /ˈlaɪfˌseɪvɪŋ/ adjective [only before noun]
life-saving medical treatments or equipment are used to help save people’s lives
lifesaving surgery/treatment/drugs etc