寿命

プログレッシブ和英中辞典(第4版)

じゅみょう【寿命】

❶〔いのち〕life；〔人間の〕the human life span

寿命が長い［短い］
live a long [short] life；《文》 be long-lived [short-lived]

この国の女性の平均寿命は80歳である
The average life expectancy of women in this country is eighty years.

医者はあと三か月の寿命だといった
The doctor told me that I had only three months to live.

寿命を完うして95歳で死んだ
He died a natural death at the age of ninety-five.

自転車が車に接触して寿命の縮まる思いをした
When the car brushed against my bicycle I felt as though it had taken years off my life.

❷〔使える期間が過ぎること〕

この車はもう寿命だ
This car 「has had it [《口》 is on its last legs].

この家もそろそろ寿命だね
This house is about to fall to pieces.

出典　小学館「プログレッシブ和英中辞典(第4版)」