English Dictionary

life support

名詞

不可算名詞 比喩的用法

An artificial system designed to provide oxygen in an environment that lacks oxygen. / (medicine) Maintenance of vital functions of a critically ill or comatose person or a person undergoing surgery.

日本語の意味

酸素不足の環境において、酸素を供給するために設計された人工的なシステム。 / 重篤な状態にある、昏睡状態の、または手術中の患者などの生命維持を目的とした医療措置。

The engineers repaired the life support that was providing oxygen to the sealed habitat.

技術者たちは、密閉された居住区に酸素を供給する酸素供給装置を修理した。

意味（1）

An artificial system designed to provide oxygen in an environment that lacks oxygen.

The more immediate concern is the life support systems. Those units are fifty years old—a conservative estimate. If the air scrubbers stop working, we die. If the pressure regulators stop working, we die. Artificial gravity fails? We die. You get the picture.

意味（2）

(medicine) Maintenance of vital functions of a critically ill or comatose person or a person undergoing surgery.

意味（3）

(medicine) The equipment and special procedures used for life support.

意味（4）

(figuratively) Means of sustaining existence or continuation of something, usually in an artificial manner when it should have changed or terminated in its natural environment.

As we've seen, Belarus is a Soviet time capsule that continues only because Russia is keeping it on life support.