2016考研英语作文必背高分句：结束生命

after six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hotparliamentary debates,australia's northern territorybecame the first legal authority in the worldtoallow doctors to take the lives of incurably ill patientswho wish to die.

译文：经过6个月的争论和最后16个小时的国会激烈辩论，澳大利亚北领地成为世界上第一个允许医生根据绝症病人个人意愿来结束其生命的立法当局。

点睛：本句的主干为australia's northern territorybecame the first legalauthority...，句首成分after sixmonths of arguing and final 16 hours of hotparliamentary debates是介词短语作状语。后面的动词不定式to allow doctors…who wish todie相当于定语从句which allows doctors to…，修饰legalauthority。短语take the life of sb.=takesb.’s life，意为“结束某人的生命”。

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其他与life相关的短语及用法：

take one's own life自杀

in despair at his failure,he took his own life.

他因为对自己的失败感到绝望而自杀。北京考研

take your life in your hands做冒险的事情

i think you take your life in your hands every time you get on a plane.

我认为你每次坐飞机都是在冒生命危险。

this is the life!这才是生活啊!(某事让人感到极为放松或享受时所说的话)

sun, sand and cocktails-this is the life!

阳光、沙滩还有鸡尾酒——这才是生活啊!

come to life苏醒过来

the wounded soldier came to life again.

伤兵又苏醒过来了。