medical equipment that assists or replaces important bodily functions and so enables a patient to live who otherwise might not survive;

"the patient is on life support"

equipment that makes life possible in otherwise deadly environmental conditions;

"the astronauts relied on their life-support systems"

each ithorian herd-ship has a complex life-support system that replicates the environment of ithor, complete with jungles, wildlife, and even weather patterns.

每艘伊索人的集群船都有一套复杂的生命维持系统，模仿伊索上的环境，包括丛林、野生生物甚至气候形式。

if any life-support system or power-consumed fish tank are being used, please make special arrangement as soon as possible.

另外，住户如设置维生仪器或耗电鱼缸，请尽早作出安排。

they hope to develop a biological life-support system to produce oxygen and food and to treat water for longer space missions.

他们期望研发出一个生命维持系统以生产氧气和食物来搭配水执行更长久的空间任务。

these problems involve primarily the oceans and atmosphere—the commons which are shared by all and are the basis of our life-support system .

这些问题主要涉及海洋和大气层，而海洋和大气层是人类所共有的，是维持生命系统的基础。

the life-support system was just beside you with tubes piercing mercilessly into your left wrist.

生命维持系统就在你的身边，你左手腕上插着管子。

in may 1998, michael schiavo petitioned a circuit court to order his wife「s life-support system to be removed.

1998年5月，迈克尔"舒阿佛请求巡回法院命令医院拆除维系他妻子生命的系统。

heartland china」s life-support system is in trouble. yet in a few places it's still possible to find landscapes that appear to have remained untouched.

中国中部地区的生命支持系统问题重重，然而在一些地区依旧存留着最后的处女地。

space suits not only have to provide a complete life-support system (oxygen, water and so on), but must also protect against the dangers of space.

宇航服不仅要为宇航员提供维持生命所必需的氧气，水分等物质供应，而且必须保护宇航员避免遭受来自太空的各种危害。

figure 1：space suits not only have to provide a complete life-support system (oxygen, water and so on), but must also protect against the dangers of space.

图一：宇航服不仅要为宇航员提供维持生命所必需的氧气，水分等物质供应，而且必须保护宇航员避免遭受来自太空的各种危害。

moreover, it recognizes not only the external value of nature to human, but also the value of nature itself, i. e. , the value to persistently sustain life and life-support system on the earth.

因而不仅承认自然界对人类的外在价值，而且承认自然界自身的价值，即它对地球生命或生命维持系统具有的持续生存的价值。