英和和英

to support life―maintain life―keep alive―subsist

to sacrifice one's life

to take one's life

to put an end to one's life―kill one

to support life―sustain life―subsist

to shorten one's life―shorten one's natural term of existence

I love life―hold life dear―cling to my life.

to risk one's life

to issue orders―give orders

to lose one's life

to lengthen one's life―add to one's natural term of existence―take a new lease of life

to lay down one's life―sacrifice one's life

to throw away one's life―lay down one's life

the act of sacrificing one's life

to give up one's life

to await orders

to have a narrow escape―be snatched from the jaws of death

to obey orders

to stake one's life

live out one's life

to manage to keep alive―keep body and life together

to engage in mortal combat

gamble with one's life

to endanger one's life

to issue orders―give orders―give the word―say the word

to save a person's file

to save one's life―save one from death―（殺そうと思った人の命なら）―spare one's life

I had a narrow escape―I was snatched from the jaws of death―It was a close shave―a close call.

to struggle for one's life―fight for one's life―engage in mortal combat

to execute one's orders―execute a commission