eugenics
eugenics 英 [ju:ˈdʒenɪks] 美 [juˈdʒɛnɪks]
n. 优生学
名词复数:eugenicss
- Eugenics is the idea that you can engineer a better human population by breeding for certain genes. Since such a program would entail ranking human beings and the desirability of their genes, eugenics is widely considered unethical.
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- n. 优生学
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1. For a while he also promoted eugenics.
有一阵子,他还提倡优生学。
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2. eugenics has a biological significance.
优生学具有生物学上的意义。
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3. Darwin’s failure to achieve icon status is the legacy of creationists and neocreationists and of the distortion of his ideas by the eugenics movement a century ago.
达尔文未能获得偶像地位是神创论者与新神创论者以及一个世纪前歪曲他的思想的优生学运动的遗产。
- eugenics (n.) "doctrine of progress in evolution of the human race, race-culture," 1883, coined (along with adjective eugenic) by English scientist Francis Galton (1822-1911) on analogy of ethics, physics, etc. from Greek eugenes "well-born, of good stock, of noble race," from eu- "good" (see eu-) + genos "birth" (from PIE root *gene- "give birth, beget").
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