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right-to-die

/rahyt-tuh-dahy/US // ˈraɪt təˈdaɪ //

死亡权,死亡权利,死权,死刑的权利

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : asserting or advocating the right to refuse extraordinary medical measures to prolong one's life when one is terminally ill or irreversibly comatose: right-to-die laws.

Examples

  • I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

  • Yves Albarello, MP of Seine-et-Marne, said the gunmen told police they were ready to “die as martyrs.”

  • Everywhere I go, ‘Hey Cartman, you must like Family Guy, right?’

  • Charlie ridiculed my faith and culture and I died defending his right to do so.

  • Gay marriage was the hot-button fight on the left and right.

  • What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?

  • Mrs. Wurzel was quite right; they had been supplied, regardless of cost, from Messrs. Rochet and Stole's well-known establishment.

  • Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.

  • She is quite true, but not wise, and your left hand must not know what your right hand is doing.

  • In Spain he was regarded as the right arm of the ultra-clericals and a possible supporter of Carlism.