英语单词 | euthanasia |
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英美音标 | 英 [ˌjuːθə'neɪziə] 美 [ˌjuːθə'neɪʒə] |
中文释义 | n.安乐死 |
vocabulary简明 | Euthanasia is the act of causing a person's or animal's death, without inflicting pain, to end suffering, like when a veterinarian performs euthanasia on a dog that is in great pain and has no chance of recovery. |
vocabulary扩展 | To correctly pronounce euthanasia, remember that it sounds like "youth in Asia." Euthanasia is sometimes referred to as mercy killing, meant to spare a living thing a slow, painful death. Originally a Greek word, euthanasia means "an easy or happy death," as eu- means "good" and thanatos means "death." The use of the word as "legally sanctioned mercy killing" is first recorded in English in 1869. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]安乐死 Euthanasia is the practice of killing someone who is very ill and will never get better in order to end their suffering, usually done at their request or with their consent. |
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