life boat

基本解釋

We'd be in the same life boat, if we had a float.
如果我們有一段漂流的旅程，我們也將在同一個救生艇。
Therefore, they put 1170 life boat positions on the ship.
所以，他們在船上放了1170個救生艙。
Only the diligent and efficient helmsman of the life boat can attained success.
只有勤勉有力的舵手才能駕馭生命之舟，到達成功的彼岸。

So do the zero-growth, sustainable-growth, right-to-die, duty-to-die, life boat bio-ethicists who dominate so much of our intellectual discussion.
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What is rather more clear is that this initiative may constitute the life boat for the Communist Party -- the vehicle whereby communists can affect a more "human face" calling themselves Social Democrats or by some other moniker, much as they have done elsewhere in the former Soviet bloc.
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A lifeboat is a medium-sized boat that is sent out from a port or harbour in order to rescue people who are in danger at sea.
A lifeboat is a small boat that is carried on a ship, which people on the ship use to escape when the ship is in danger of sinking.