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lifeline (n.)
[lifeline 词源字典]
also
life-line
, 1700, "rope used somehow to save lives," from
life
(n.) +
line
(n.); figurative sense first attested 1860. Sense in palmistry from 1890.
[lifeline etymology, lifeline origin, 英语词源]