lifeline

salvavidas, tabla de salvación

Ayuda o apoyo que alguien necesita con urgencia durante una situación difícil.

En inglés sencillo: Help or support that someone badly needs during a difficult time.

• This money is a lifeline.
• The bus service provides a lifeline for older residents.
• Her weekly calls became my lifeline during that difficult year.

Cómo se usa: a lifeline for someone/something (The loan was a lifeline for the small business.)

Sinónimos: vital support, saving grace

Expresiones frecuentes: provide a lifeline, lifeline for someone, lifeline to someone

cuerda de salvamento

Cuerda que una persona agarra o lleva sujeta para evitar ahogarse o caerse.

En inglés sencillo: A rope that someone holds or is attached to so they do not drown or fall.

• She grabbed the lifeline.
• The crew threw a lifeline to the swimmer.
• Each climber was attached to a lifeline.

Sinónimos: safety line, rescue rope

Expresiones frecuentes: throw a lifeline, grab a lifeline, hold a lifeline

vía de abastecimiento

Ruta o servicio por el que llegan los suministros que las personas necesitan para sobrevivir.

En inglés sencillo: A route or service that brings supplies people need to survive.

• The road is our lifeline.
• Floods cut the village's only lifeline to the outside world.
• Ships kept this island lifeline open throughout the winter.

Sinónimos: supply route

Expresiones frecuentes: vital lifeline, lifeline to somewhere, supply lifeline

línea de la vida

Línea curva de la palma, junto al pulgar, que algunas personas interpretan para supuestamente predecir la vida.

En inglés sencillo: A curved line on the palm near the thumb, used by people who claim to predict lives.

• Her lifeline curves around her thumb.
• The palm reader examined his lifeline.
• Do both hands have equally clear lifelines?

Sinónimos: life line

Expresiones frecuentes: long lifeline, read a lifeline, short lifeline