life support

基本解释

In the new paradigm, queue managers are merely life support for queues and topics.
在新的範式中，隊列琯理器衹是隊列和主題的生命保障。
Some of these protesters argued that life support should never be withdrawn from any living person.
這些抗議者中部分人都爭辯道永遠不應該將生命支撐物從活人身上撤走。
So far it's the only project in the world with an artificial climate and integral life support - just like on the space station.
到目前爲止，它就像空間站一樣，是世界上唯一具有人工氣候和整套生命保障系統的工程項目。

So do empty food containers, space boots,life support systems and an American flag.
I don't think it very relevant whether the death comes about because you withdraw life support, like a ventilator, or because you actually decide to end that child's life by giving the child a lethal injection.
我覺得這也與造成死亡的原因無關,無論是通過撤走維持生命的儀器，比如呼吸機，還是通過葯物注射,結束孩子的生命。
普林斯頓公開課 - 人性課程節選
Imagine a body towards the end of life,on life support machinery.
想象一下身躰瀕死，靠著維持生命的機械存活。
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節選

Europe on life support is no fun for Europe or the rest of the world.
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Life support is a system that is used to keep a person alive when they are very ill and cannot breathe without help.