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Familicide

 

馬鞍山發生倫常命案，一名父親與兩名年幼兒子身亡，令人扼腕嘆息。

家庭的真締是什麼？Jo 和 Kevin 跟大家探討。

 

 

murder-suicide 謀殺自殺案

 

familicide 倫常命案

 

例子：As the familicide wiped out his entire family, he will be charged with four counts of murder.

 

倫常命案英文也可叫 family annihilation [əˌnaɪəˈleɪʃn] [silent ‘h’]

 

annihilate

(verb 動詞)

 

1. 毀滅, 殲滅

例子：The Army was annihilated.

 

2. 徹底擊敗

例子：The Chinese team annihilated the Olympic champions.

 

fortune

 

• a fortune 一筆可觀的財富

(noun 名詞；countable 可數)

 

例子：The meal ended up costing a fortune.

例子：He made a small fortune during the economic boom.

 

• fortune 運氣

(noun 名詞；uncountable不可數)

 

例子：fortune-teller 算命人 (he tells your fortune)

 

談起「犯罪」，英文除了 murder / commit crime / commit suicide 之外，還有一字，叫perpetrate：

 

perpetrate 犯（罪）

(verb 動詞)　[ˈpɜːpɪtreɪt]

 

例子：A high proportion of crime in the region was perpetrated by teenagers.

 

► perpetrator 犯罪者; 作惡者

(noun 名詞)

 

例子：the perpetrator of a hoax   詐騙犯

例子：The perpetrator of this crime must be traced.

 

Kevin’s classroom

 

suffix 後綴詞：-cide （構成名詞）表示「殺（者）」

a learned borrowing from Latin meaning “killer,” “act of killing,” used in the formation of compound words

 

suicide 自殺 (noun 名詞)

suicidal 有自殺傾向的 (adjective 形容詞)

 

例子：

- patricide 弒父

- matricide 弒母

- homicide 謀殺

 

殺蟲劑

例子：insecticide, pesticide

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