| 释义 |
genocide|ˈdʒɛnəsaɪd|
[f. Gr. γένο-ς (see genus) + -cide 2.]
The deliberate and systematic extermination of an ethnic or national group.
1944R. Lemkin Axis Rule in Occupied Europe ix. 79 By ‘genocide’ we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group. 1945Sunday Times 21 Oct. 7 The United Nations' indictment of the 24 Nazi leaders has brought a new word into the language—genocide. It occurs in Count 3, where it is stated that all the defendants ‘conducted deliberate and systematic genocide—namely, the extermination of racial and national groups...’ 1951Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry Feb. 595/1 Genocide as defined by the United Nations is the direct physical destruction of another racial or national group. 1962Listener 20 Sept. 452/2 One of the things the seventeenth century never achieved was genocide. 1969Peace News 13 June 4/1 The government are..conducting cultural genocide by destroying this Scottish (Gaidhlig) community. |