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
aaom
agricultural tyre
air charge temperature
angioneurotic anuria
angle-type scheme
aptitude to
aristoc
at a high rate of speed
bactrocera (bactrocera) paratappana
balloon-borne
batrachiate
Bretteville-sur-Laize
cabossed
cancer of parotid glands
capital destruction
Chalviri, Salar de
changde
circular back section
clematis gouriana lishanensis
conducting glass electrode
contempt-of-court
contour map of seam floor
coplanar point
correction lines
counter-boring
cousinge
crystalline pattern
curarimimetic
Cuyutlan
die bolt cutter
diffusion coefficients
digital-to-analog ladder
dilution blank
drive one's pigs to a pretty market
euls
eupafolin
frontloader
funnelled pipe
gain measurement
gainful workers survey
gas sampling equipment
general magnetic field
genus myrtillocactuss
highefficiency
horizontal directive tendency (hdt)
ink-molyne
joint pain
JOSPRO
kanpur
karst river
laiks
layout flow chart
line dot matrix printer
loimology
m-cells
Massachusetts general hospital Utility Multi-Programming System
maxum
measure and calculate
Mischobulbum cordifolium
Montregard
muco-purulent
multistage supercharger
Naftidan
non-negotiable b/l
noncontiguous
nonlogistics costs
nouveau romancier
peak printing rate
perentie
preaid advertising expenses account
priviest
problem of pursuit
proximity exposure method
Public Information Officer
quimoderma
re-sizing
reductive rank
regional communication office
repetitive instruction
sales-driven philosophy
Scolopax rusticola
scotomas
self-supporting accounting system
sexangularly
shanzhai
slip rings
spasmodic stenosis
straight-forward method
strike off an appropriation from the budget
sympathetic bubo
tank bottom
teacher qualification
Tiddley Winks
torose load cast
underground electro-magnetic wave perradiator
unexpectedly
Unicelles
Verkhozim
Wigrid
wire penetrator
wireless security
Yuti