prolongation

常见例句

In this case, prolongation of life should trump reproduction.
既然这样，延长寿命就要重于繁衍后代。
The maritime tribunal condemned him, for this crime, to a prolongation of his term for three years, which made eight years.
海港法庭对他这次过失，判决延长拘禁期三年，一共是八年。
That's a prolongation of the being in love which involves alterations which happen in human beings giving our nature, giving our physiology over the course of many years.
这是恋爱期的延长,包括发生在人类间的改变,给我们自然，给我们生理学,过去多年的课程。

As medical technology promised ever-lengthier prolongation of life at ever-higher costs, his stand seemed sane, even humane.
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