life sentence

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He died of heart failure in 1971, while serving a life sentence.
斯坦格爾1971年死於心髒衰竭，儅時他正服無期徒刑。
Eventual retirement looms not as a release but as a daunting life sentence.
最終的退休不會是一種解脫，倒像是令人畏縮的無期徒刑判決。
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On the one hand, when we thought that BPD was a life sentence, we avoided treating patients who can in fact be helped.
一方麪，一想到BPD患者似判了無期徒刑，我們情願避免治療事實上可以得救的患者。

Libya has maintained that it was not responsible for the downing of Pan Am flight 103 and Megrahi, who was serving a life sentence, has maintained his innocence.
I don't want to be told that I could sit here for the rest of my life just sort of parsing one sentence. Don't tell me about that.
我可不想坐在這裡學一輩子,就爲了解讀一個句子的意思，千萬別這麽告訴我。
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But his mother's claim that he is a 16-year-old juvenile could pose a problem for prosecutors seeking the maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

Sharif was give a life sentence for refusing to allow a plane carrying Musharraf to land.
NPR: Sharif's Return to Pakistan Poses Challenges

the punishment of being put in prison for a very long time, or, in the US, until death

If someone receives a life sentence, they are sentenced to stay in prison for the rest of their life, or for a very long period of time.