thread of life

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A metaphor for a person’s lifespan, as generated by Clotho, measured out by Lachesis, and terminated by Atropos. Greek
  2. DNA. figuratively
    — His book also tells of the intense competition between various research workers and groups during the years in which the secrets of "the spiral thread of life" were finally unravelled.
  3. The link of inheritance from past to present. figuratively
    — DOWN the unimaginable corridors of geologic time the thread of life has passed from generation to generation, ever varying but unbroken.
  4. Destiny, fate. figuratively
    — Argo, their thred of life is ſpun.

词形变化

threads of life plural lifethread alternative life thread alternative
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