时间:2019-02-13 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力精选进阶版


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The Right to Die? 死亡的权利?


How would you cope if you had a terminal illness? What if your son or daughter had no hope of ever having a normal life due to a life-threatening condition?


In the UK, the question of assisted suicide or refusing medical treatment is extremely divisive and controversial; euthanasia is illegal in Britain, as is the act of helping 1 a terminally-ill person to kill themselves.


However, a 13-year-old English girl has won the right to refuse medical treatment this week after a hospital dropped a legal bid to force her to have a heart transplant.


Hannah Jones, who has spent eight years in and out of hospital battling leukaemia and heart problems, told child protection officers she wanted to die with dignity rather than face the operation and have to take constant medication afterwards.


Despite initial efforts by her local health authority to remove Hannah from her family and force her to undergo the transplant, legal and medical experts said that a child of her age was able to make an informed decision to refuse treatment.


Hannah’s decision to stop treatment and spend the rest of her life at home with her family was made entirely 2 by herself, according to her father, who spoke 3 of his admiration 4 for her.


"Hannah made that decision consciously on her own, a bit like a grown up, even though she was only 12 at the time, and she has maintained that decision," said Andrew Jones.


The headmaster of Hannah’s school described her as intelligent and capable of making her own decisions.


"Her presence is a source of inspiration to us all through the courage and dignity that she displays," he said.


GLOSSARY 词汇表


terminal illness 晚期疾病


life-threatening condition 威胁生命的状况


assisted suicide (被)协助自杀


refusing medical treatment 拒绝治疗


divisive 导致分裂的


controversial 有争议的


euthanasia 安乐死


legal bid 法律命令


heart transplant 心脏移植


leukaemia 白血病


child protection officers 保护儿童官员


dignity 尊严


operation 手术


health authority 医疗


undergo 接受


admiration 仰慕


grown up 成年人


maintained 保持


source of inspiration 精神鼓舞的源泉


courage 勇气



n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地
  • The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
  • His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
n.钦佩,赞美,羡慕
  • He was lost in admiration of the beauty of the scene.他对风景之美赞不绝口。
  • We have a great admiration for the gold medalists.我们对金牌获得者极为敬佩。
学英语单词
a glimpse of
Adrenobazon
agron.
al-khaliq
American yew
archegony
armour clamp
autochorous
Bandeira, Pico da
be in effect
be taken back
boottopping corrosion
certificate of mortgage
Chengde
Chrzastowice
common grade
continuous electrophoresis
cosmic radio spectroscopy
Coulaines
Coyutia
cytomegalovirus(CMV)
decent conditions
different brackets
differential assembly
direct control gearbox
dock connector
Eadbald
easy does it
echo depth-recorder
esophaguses
file of sequential access
floppy disk drives
follow the signs
foot layer
gingival hemorrhage
Goddess forbid
gong buoy
gradient layer
Hellenic Republic
house load
huangteng
hypnum kushakuense
I-ship
identical permutation group
interfering ion
internal defense and development
know the ropes
Laimakuri
law lords
liquid adsorption method
liquid-metal-coolant
macaques
make-believe
mathsort
maxmara
meracle
metacarpal
methohexital sodium
mine radioactive protection
mondesirs
nanocormia
Navalagamella
occipito-temporal fissure
outboard rotor
papill? lacrimales
pasvik
Pedicularis bidentata
permanent record
personne
phenograms
pitot flow meter
pleolysis
point gage
pollution by particulates
postexodontic complication
pre-tr tube
pressure balanced workover rig
promotor(jacob.wollman & monod 1964)
Q-technique
quasicontract
quick-delivery
rake up the persimmons
recirculating cooling water
repeatable noise
resident portion
rim size
run idle
safe words
Salix bhutanensis
set up one's staff of rest
side raking
sign an agreement
singlerow riveted joint
slewing motion
standadized ratio
suppress footnotes
trapezoidal pattern
underworks
unless the policy otherwise provides
vertical projection
with pride
yellow henbanes