genocide
英 ['d?en?sa?d]
美['d??n?sa?d]
- n. 種族滅絕；滅絕整個種族的大屠殺
TEM4IELTS低頻詞擴展詞匯
詞態變化
形容詞:?genocidal;
中文詞源
genocide 種族滅絕
geno-, 種族。-cide, 殺。
英文詞源
- genocide
- genocide: see general
- genocide (n.)
- 1944, apparently coined by Polish-born U.S. jurist Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959) in his work "Axis Rule in Occupied Europe" [p.19], in reference to Nazi extermination of Jews, literally "killing a tribe," from Greek genos "race, kind" (see genus) + -cide. The proper formation would be *genticide.
Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aimed at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. [Lemkin]
Earlier in a similar sense was populicide (1799), from French populicide, by 1792, a word from the Revolution. This was taken into German, as in V?lkermeuchelnden "genocidal" (Heine), which was Englished 1893 as folk-murdering. Ethnocide is attested from 1974 in English (1970 in French).
雙語例句
- 1. They've launched a campaign of genocide against the immigrants.
- 他們對移民進行了種族滅絕.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. They have alleged that acts of genocide and torture were carried out.
- 他們聲稱實施了大屠殺和酷刑。
來自辭典例句
- 3. Bring back the old Soviet empire under a flag of genocide?
- 讓他以大屠殺為名恢復舊俄帝國?
來自電影對白
- 4. The genocide in Darfur shames the conscience of us all.
- 達爾富爾的種族滅絕是對我們所有人的良知來說都是恥辱.
來自互聯網
- 5. When the genocide began in April, we fled to a religious seminary.
- 四月開始種族滅絕行動, 我們逃往一個宗教神學院.
來自互聯網