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homicide n.杀人,杀人者 Remember the meaning of homicide by remembering that cide, from the Latin cida, refers to killing, while the Latin homo means "man.” So homicide means “killing a man.” You can see another example in this quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes: “Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide — that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life — are alike forbidden.” ★☆☆☆☆ 2002.4

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['hɔmisaid] The noun homicide means a murder. If you kill another person, you are committing a homicide. The level of the homicide is legally defined as murder if the act was intentional and as manslaughter if it was unintentional. We don’t call those deaths homicides because the doctors didn’t intend to kill their patients, although they risked their death. If you’re a physician, you can risk your patient’s suicide as long as you don’t intend their suicide. 1[N-VAR 可变名词]凶杀；杀人 Homicide is the illegal killing of a person.   [mainly AM 主美]The police arrived at the scene of the homicide.警方赶到了凶杀现场。in BRIT, usually use 英国英语通常用murder

英语单词	homicide
英美音标	['hɔmisaid]
中文释义	n.杀人,杀人者
vocab简明	The noun homicide means a murder. If you kill another person, you are committing a homicide. The level of the homicide is legally defined as murder if the act was intentional and as manslaughter if it was unintentional.
vocab扩展	Remember the meaning of homicide by remembering that cide, from the Latin cida, refers to killing, while the Latin homo means "man.” So homicide means “killing a man.” You can see another example in this quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes: “Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide — that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life — are alike forbidden.”
真题原句	We don’t call those deaths homicides because the doctors didn’t intend to kill their patients, although they risked their death. If you’re a physician, you can risk your patient’s suicide as long as you don’t intend their suicide.
柯林斯星级	★☆☆☆☆
柯林斯解释	1 [N-VAR 可变名词]凶杀；杀人 Homicide is the illegal killing of a person. [mainly AM 主美] The police arrived at the scene of the homicide. 警方赶到了凶杀现场。 in BRIT, usually use 英国英语通常用murder
来源	2002.4

Homicide Means Kill Latin Alike Don’t Intend Hɔmisaid