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That's an excellent question. That is a very common mistake for non-native speakers.
That's because we human only have one life, you cannot possibly have a"remaining life" in real life. You can, however, have remaining time.
Also, you cannot use remaining life is because "life" cannot be quantified. You cannot attach a number to "life" again because you only have one life to live. You can, however, attach a quantity to "time" (e.g. 1 hour, 2 hour, 10 days, 5 years, etc).
The only exception is if you're playing video game and you have 5 lives. Someone may ask you: "How many lives do you have remaining?" You would answer: "I have one remaining life." if you have one life left to play.
Ask yourself this:
If you are taking a test and someone asks you: "How much time do you have left?" You can provide an exact quantifiable value as an answer.
But let's say during your birthday, someone asks you: "How much life do you have left?" You can't answer that because "life" is not quantifiable.
Instead of just saying "life", you need to specify "what of life".
For example, you can say "life expectancy" or "lifetime".
You can now say: "How much lifetime do you have left?" Although no one really says that, it's a correct way to say it.
The common way to ask this question is: "What is your life expectancy?"
2009-03-14 15:36:43 補充：
001 needs to know that we don't just know it's right because things sound right. You cannot say "remaining life" because you don't have any remaining lives after this one. Hope this helps!
2009-03-19 05:27:38 補充：
Like you said, allofusme, the reference to "English" is implied in my first sentence. Of course, if you are writing a paper, you would add the word "English" in that sentence. It's not necessary when you're "speaking" casually as it's implicated. Hope this helps.
