1.毕生事业;一生中最重要的工作
1.something that is the product, result, or culmination of somebody's working life
1.Attracted to a lifework that combined daily artistic creativity with immediate usefulness, she decided this was the profession she wanted.
吸引到结合每日的艺术创造力和立即的有用lifework，她决定这是她的职业。
2.Zwingli was soon called from Basel to enter upon his lifework.
不久，萨文黎从巴塞尔被召去从事他一生的工作。
3.When he conceived of natural selection, he didn't plan a 10-volume lifework.
他在构思自然选择学说的时候，并没有打算用一生的工作写一部长达10卷的著作。