eugenics

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n. 优生学 [医] 优生学

发音

其它 /juːˈd͡ʒɛnɪks/

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A social philosophy or practice which advocates the improvement of human hereditary qualities through selective breeding, either by encouraging people with superior genetic qualities to reproduce (positive eugenics), or discouraging people with inferior genetic qualities from reproducing (negative eugenics), or by technological means.

    优生学

    善种学

    不可数 生物

词汇关系

名词

反义词 1

dysgenics

上位词 2

bioscience life science

相关短语

liberal eugenics positive eugenics 积极优生学 negative eugenics 消极优生学

词源

Coined by Francis Galton in 1883. From ἐΰς (eǘs, “good”) + γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “breeding”), “well-bred”, “good in stock”. Parallel to Eugene. By surface analysis, eugenic + -s.

来源：wiktionary