life-or-death

基本解释

For most of us, our work does not have life-or-death consequences, so fears we have about failure are likely to be exaggerations.
对我们大多数人来说，手头的活儿并不是生死攸关的事，因此我们对失败的恐惧很可能是多虑了。
Much as they love you, it's easy for our friends to forget our day-to-day priorities, including a job search that feels like a life-or-death proposition to you.
虽然他们很爱你，但是朋友也很容易忘记我们的日常优先事项，包括像求职这样对你来说是生死攸关的事情。
For humans in primitive times, slowness in distinguishing whether the person in front of them is a member of their own tribe or a member of an enemy tribe was a life-or-death issue.
在原始社会，倘若有人难于分辨面前的人是属于自己的部族，还是敌方部落的一员，那就是生死攸关的问题。

It is not chaos or death -- it is form,union,plan -- it is eternal life -- it is Happiness.
There's the room of this life, and there's the room of the next life and people who have near-death experiences either temporarily were in the second room or else at least they were glancing into the second room.
这里是今生的房间,那里有一个来世的房间,有濒死体验的人,或者短暂地进入到第二个房间,或者至少对第二个房间匆匆一瞥
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People in the path of a tornado often have just minutes to make life-or-death decisions.

For them, even a few million in settlements or licensing fees could mean life-or-death.
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