学个词 Learn a Word-VOA英语教学 2584 genocide

今天我们要学的词是 genocide. Genocide 名词，种族灭绝。Pope Francis called the Ottoman-era slaughter¹ of some 1.5 million Armenians a genocide and urged the world never to forget it. 教宗方济各称奥斯曼时代150万亚美尼亚人被杀戮为种族灭绝，敦促世界永远不要忘记。The Rhode Island governor signed a new law to make it mandatory² for schools to teach the subject of genocides and the Holocaust³. 罗德岛州长签署法律，要求学校一定要把种族灭绝和犹太人大屠杀纳入教材内容。好的，我们今天学习的词是 genocide, genocide, genocide...

1 slaughter   

n.屠杀，屠宰；vt.屠杀，宰杀

参考例句：

• I couldn't stand to watch them slaughter the cattle.我不忍看他们宰牛。
• Wholesale slaughter was carried out in the name of progress.大规模的屠杀在维护进步的名义下进行。

2 mandatory   

adj.命令的；强制的；义务的；n.受托者

参考例句：

• It's mandatory to pay taxes.缴税是义务性的。
• There is no mandatory paid annual leave in the U.S.美国没有强制带薪年假。

3 holocaust   

n.大破坏；大屠杀

参考例句：

• The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust.奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀。
• Ahmadinejad is denying the holocaust because he's as brutal as Hitler was.内贾德否认大屠杀，因为他像希特勒一样残忍。