eugenic
eugenic — 形容詞
- eugenicpositive
- more eugeniccomparative
- most eugenicsuperlative
1. describing ideas or policies that aim to improve human populations by controllin
優生的
主張透過控制生育來改良人種的
describing ideas or policies that aim to improve human populations by controlling who is allowed to have children — a set of beliefs now widely condemned for their links to racism and Nazi ideology.
Folake wrote her university paper on eugenic policies in early twentieth-century America.
Folake 的大學論文探討了二十世紀初美國的優生政策。
collocation: eugenic policies
The museum exhibit showed how eugenic thinking influenced immigration laws a century ago.
博物館展覽展示了一世紀前優生思想如何影響移民法律。
eugenic thinking + influenced [noun]
Esteban was shocked to learn that eugenic sterilisation programmes continued into the 1970s.
Esteban 震驚地發現優生絕育計劃竟持續到 1970 年代。
Ilan read his class a eugenic argument from a 1920s textbook and asked them to find its errors.
Ilan 向全班朗讀了 1920 年代教科書中的一段優生論點，並要求學生找出其中的錯誤。
Ada's grandmother was denied marriage under the country's old eugenic marriage laws.
Ada 的祖母因該國舊時的優生婚姻法而無法結婚。
- eugenical
a less common variant with the identical meaning
- dysgenic
causing or tending to cause deterioration in the human gene pool
用法筆記
Almost always used critically today; describes discredited historical practices and ideologies. Rarely used in a neutral or positive sense outside discussions of early 20th-century history.