| 英语单词 | genocide |
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| 英美音标 | 英 ['dʒenəsaɪd] 美 ['dʒenəsaɪd] |
| 中文释义 | n.种族灭绝 |
| 英语例句 | (1) They've launched a campaign of genocide against the immigrants. (2) Genocide is an offense to all civilized human beings. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 他们对移民进行了种族灭绝。 (2) 种族灭绝违反文明人的道德规范的罪行。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Genocide refers to the systematic destruction of a race or cultural group. In the Rwandan genocide of 1994, members of one ethnic group, the Hutus, killed some 850,000 Tutsis in an attempt to wipe them out completely. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Genocide was coined in 1944 by a Polish-Jewish scholar named Raphael Lemkin in response to the Holocaust. In 1948, the United Nations defined genocide as any of several acts (including murder) "committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group..." |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]种族灭绝;大屠杀 Genocide is the deliberate murder of a whole community or race.
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