genocide

英 ['dʒenəsaɪd] 美 ['dʒɛnəsaɪd]

genocide 种族灭绝

geno-, 种族。-cide, 杀。

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 Völkermeuchelnden "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.: 他们对移民进行了种族灭绝.

2. They have alleged that acts of genocide and torture were carried out.: 他们声称实施了大屠杀和酷刑。

3. Bring back the old Soviet empire under a flag of genocide?: 让他以大屠杀为名恢复旧俄帝国?

4. The genocide in Darfur shames the conscience of us all.: 达尔富尔的种族灭绝是对我们所有人的良知来说都是耻辱.

5. When the genocide began in April, we fled to a religious seminary.: 四月开始种族灭绝行动, 我们逃往一个宗教神学院.