- 1無期徒刑犯（口語；法律上說「無期徒刑」）
In informal English, especially around prisons and crime news, a lifer is someone a court has sent to prison for life — they are meant to stay inside until they die, or until a later decision lets them out. It is not a kind word, and it is not the word on the legal paper; it is the street name for a person serving a life sentence. Though actually, ‘life’ does not always mean never leaving: each country’s law is different, and some lifers do come out years later. Americans also stretch it: a lifer at a company is someone who never leaves the job — same joke, much softer. Keep the prison sense for this word in serious talk, and keep the word itself for informal English.
組成From life + -er. The -er makes a person. Here it is short for a person serving a life sentence.
同家族的字
- lifefrom a life sentence: prison for life
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
lifernoun/ˈlaɪfə(ɹ)/
- 1
A prisoner sentenced to life in prison.
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A prisoner sentenced to transportation for life.
- They know what a clever lad he is; he'll be a lifer. They'll make the Artful nothing less than a lifer.
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A person with a singular career path, especially in the military.
- "[…]The Top's not a lifer; he's a career Marine. Lifers are a breed. A lifer is anybody who abuses authority he doesn't deserve to have. There are plenty of civilian lifers."
- LRRP planned to become “career” Army, i.e., a lifer, you kept that quiet. Basic LRRP theology said the Army sucked and that philosophy kept one from going crazy because, at the bottom, nothing about the war seemed to make sense anyway. The LRRP's considered a lifer a loser. Being a lifer implied one had no other options available. Every LRRP had his own stories about back home: about family, friends, lovers, opportunities, dreams and a future. These were mostly fantasy, but […]
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biologybirdwatchingnatural-sciencesA species seen for the first time by a birder or other naturalist who is keeping a list of all the species they have seen.
- It is difficult to classify them precisely, but, in roughly ascending order of productivity, we now recognise the purely chance observer, the locality regulars (now recognising that ‘time in’ eventually equals ‘rarity out’), the ringers (particularly when working in groups), the occasional tally-hunter (most of us, if we are honest), the full-time observatory workers (exhibiting the highest standards of discipline) and the growing group of full-blooded rarity collectors (self-styled ‘twitchers’, covering individually up to 30,000 miles in their annual pursuit of ‘lifers’).
- We have concurred that it was clearly Problema byssus, the byssus skipper: a lifer for me.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。