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eugenically

/yoo-jen-ik/US // yuˈdʒɛn ɪk //

优生,优生优育,优生代,遗传

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or bringing about improvement in the type of offspring produced.
    • : having good inherited characteristics.

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Examples

  • While the victims of eugenics were generally poor, that wasn’t always the case.

  • Later, eugenics and even ESP were for a time taken seriously by some “modern” scientists.

  • She operated at a time when eugenic arguments were very much in vogue, harnessed by both sides of the birth-control debate.

  • Mating determined by unconscious psychological motives instead of eugenic considerations.

  • Medicine and surgery—well, there's a huge program of compulsory sterilization, and another one of eugenic marriage-control.

  • Without love, all the efforts of all the Eugenic Societies on earth will accomplish little, however well-meant their efforts.

  • There was no ideal of sex-equality, and therefore Love was regarded as the least important requisite in Eugenic marriage.

  • There yet remains the eugenic inducement and, I believe, a personal one!