- 1種族屠殺、滅族（法律與新聞也常用種族滅絕）
Genocide is the deliberate murder of a whole group of people — a nation, a race, a people — because they are that group. It is not “a lot of people died in a war.” It is a plan to destroy the group itself. Law, history, and the news use it, and it is one of the heaviest words in English. Though actually, people argue over the edges: some killings are clearly genocide; some are mass murder that a court has not named that way; and speakers sometimes stretch it, or say “cultural genocide” when a group’s language and ways are crushed but the people are not all killed. The careful meaning is the killing of the group as a group. The pieces are old, but the English word itself is modern, built in the twentieth century.
From the word’s history
Coined by Raphael Lemkin in 1943–44 from Greek γένος 'race, kind' + -cide 'killing'.
Lemkin 在二戰時造的字：希臘文 genos「種族」加 -cide「殺」。
組成From the stem of Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “race, kind”) + English -cide (“killing”). That -cide comes from Latin caedō (“to cut, to kill”) by way of French. In the deep old-language sense it sits near Latin gēns (“tribe, clan”), which also gave English genus.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
genocidenoun/ˈd͡ʒɛnəsaɪd/
- 1
The systematic and deliberate destruction of a group of people; typically by killing substantial numbers of them, on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, nationality, or similar grounds.
- A genocide will always be followed by the denial that it ever happened.
- For the German occupying authorities war thus appears to offer the most appropriate occasion for carrying out their policy of genocide.
- 2
The systematic suppression of ideas or practices on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide.
- linguistic genocide
- Native Americans in the twentieth century are no longer a "vanishing race" or a silent minority. They have survived centuries of cultural genocide inflicted on them by non-Native Americans— both the well-meaning and the self-seeking— […]
- 3
video-gamesThe elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player in roguelikes.
- I used genocide in my first ascension, but have been genocideless ever since. Makes the game much more interesting, but then again, if one hasn't ascended yet, it will be interesting anyway.
- What an Extinctionist tries to do is completely eliminate as many kinds of monsters from the game as possible, either through genocide if it's available, or from just depleting all the kinds of monsters that can be produced.
genocideverb/ˈd͡ʒɛnəsaɪd/
- 1
To commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely.
- Even though the Soviet constitution and that of the Ukrainian SSR contain provisions guaranteeing freedom of religion and other fundamental liberties, the Soviet government genocided the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in the 1930's […]
- A clue appears in the Nazis finding the Gypsies dirty and disorderly (for not only Jews were genocided).
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