life science

IPA/ˈlaɪf saɪəns/
IPA/ˈlaɪf saɪəns/

life science — 名詞

1. the study of living things, including how plants, animals, and people are built

1.名詞B2
釋義

生命科學

研究生物與生命現象的科學領域

the study of living things, including how plants, animals, and people are built and how they grow and survive.

例句

Many universities offer full scholarships to students who choose life science as their major.

許多大學提供全額獎學金給選擇生命科學作為主修的學生。

life science (singular) names the field before another noun

Salma switched from law to the life sciences after a summer at a wildlife clinic.

Salma 在野生動物診所度過一個夏天後，從法律轉向生命科學領域。

the life sciences (plural) for the whole group of fields

常見搭配
  • study life science
  • life science research
  • a life science degree
  • the life sciences industry
同義詞
  • biological sciences

    near-synonym; often interchangeable but sounds slightly more formal and technical

  • bioscience

    more modern term, common in industry, biotech, and university department names

反義詞
  • physical sciences

    study non-living matter and energy, such as physics, chemistry, and geology

文法句型

the + life sciences

用法筆記

Often appears in the plural — 'the life sciences' — when naming the whole group of related fields; the singular form is most common directly before another noun, as in 'a life science degree' or 'life science research'.

常見錯誤

Physics is one of the life sciences.
Physics is one of the physical sciences.
life sciences study living things, while physics deals with energy and matter, so it counts as a physical science.

同根字

常見搭配

名詞搭配

  • life science research
  • life science degree
  • life science companies
  • life science industry

常用片語

  • a career in the life sciences
  • advances in the life sciences

介系詞搭配

  • in life science
  • in the life sciences