genocide

英 ['d?en?sa?d] 美['d??n?sa?d]

TEM4IELTS低頻詞擴(kuò)展詞匯

形容詞:?genocidal;

genocide 種族滅絕

geno-, 種族。-cide, 殺。

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).

1. They've launched a campaign of genocide against the immigrants.: 他們對(duì)移民進(jìn)行了種族滅絕.

2. They have alleged that acts of genocide and torture were carried out.: 他們聲稱實(shí)施了大屠殺和酷刑。

3. Bring back the old Soviet empire under a flag of genocide?: 讓他以大屠殺為名恢復(fù)舊俄帝國(guó)?

4. The genocide in Darfur shames the conscience of us all.: 達(dá)爾富爾的種族滅絕是對(duì)我們所有人的良知來說都是恥辱.

5. When the genocide began in April, we fled to a religious seminary.: 四月開始種族滅絕行動(dòng), 我們逃往一個(gè)宗教神學(xué)院.