euthanasia
euthanasia 英 [ˌju:θəˈneɪziə] 美 [ˌjuθəˈneɪʒə]
n. 安乐死；安乐死术
名词复数:euthanasias
- 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.
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- n. 安乐死；安乐死术
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1. Even the most extreme proponents of euthanasia do not support such an action in those circumstances.
即使是极端的安乐死支持者也不赞成在这种情况下采取如此做法。
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2. For these reasons, they might ask for euthanasia to be administered, when they may not want to die -- they just do not want to cause their family any more suffering.
鉴于这些原因，虽然他们可能不想死去，他们还是会要求对他们执行安乐死——他们只是不想再给他们的家人造成更多的痛苦。
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3. It is one thing to support euthanasia ， but quite another to offer any justification for genocide .
支持安乐死是一回事，为种族灭绝提供正当的理由是另一回事。
- euthanasia (n.) 1640s, "a gentle and easy death," from Greek euthanasia "an easy or happy death," from eu- "good" (see eu-) + thanatos "death" (see thanatology) + abstract noun ending -ia. Slightly earlier in Englished form euthanasy (1630s). Sense of "legally sanctioned mercy killing" is recorded in English by 1869.
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