1·This is a life preserver.
这是救生用品。
2·The life preserver kept him up until the boat came.
救生衣使他保持浮在水面直到小船来救他。
3·Alright, I'll go and take my life preserver. Promise me nothing bad will happen.
那好吧，我去拿救生圈。你要保证我没事。
4·Floating seat cushion: if someone fell overboard, could function as a life preserver.
飘浮的座位靠垫：如果有人从船上翻落水中时，可作救生用。
5·While these ads yielded small amounts of money compared to banner ads at the time, as the dot-com bubble burst, this system became our life preserver.
尽管这种广告比横幅广告赚的钱少，但在网络泡沫破灭的时候，这套系统成了我们的生命线。
6·A life preserver consisting of a connected pair of inflatable bags that fit under a person's arms and provide buoyancy; used by children learning to swim.
由一截连在一起的充气袋子组成，能放在人的胳膊底下提供浮力；用于学水的儿童。
7·Nor should she have had to, her aides insist. Fumed one: "That's like telling a drowning man that you are not going to help him until he asks for a life preserver."
有人甚至愤怒的说:“这就好比像是要求一个溺水的人必须说出他要一个救生圈，不然你不帮他一样”。
8·We've thrown ourselves into cutthroat waters without a life preserver in sight, exposing our workers to the harsh mercy of global competition without showing them any mercy of our own.
我们将自己投身到了竞争激烈的大海中，却看不到救生艇，让我们的工人们面对全球竞争的残酷，却没有给他们任何自己人的怜悯。
9·It’s up to you to throw the rest of us a life-preserver; once we’ve caught it, once we’ve caught on, your future will be assured.
是的，就是你。 一旦我们被淹没在信息的海洋里，你得给我们其他人扔下来一个救生圈；一旦我们抓住了你的救生圈，你的未来就是板钉钉了—“充满希望，无可限量”。
10·Wealth is a life-preserver: put on rightly, it will save you; put on wrongly, it will drown you.
财富是生命的救生衣：穿对了能保护你的安全，穿错了会使你溺水而亡。