an incurable disease

基本解释

the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable disease or in an irreversible coma". It comes from the Greek, literally translating as "a good death".
关于安乐死的定义牛津英语词典给出的解释是：“无痛杀死一个患有不治之症或深度昏迷状态的病人。它来源于希腊语，按字面翻译为“善终”。
The definition of Euthanasia as given by the Oxford English Dictionary is: "the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable disease or in an irreversible coma".
关于安乐死的定义牛津英语词典给出的解释是：“无痛杀死一个患有不治之症或深度昏迷状态的病人。
By inventing an incurable disease, he can meditate on its impact—on a marriage, on a career, on a character’s self-esteem—without dragging in the baggage of a familiar illness.
他能够通过创造一种难以治愈的疾病来思考它对于婚姻，事业或者主人公自尊心的影响——而不是通过某种司空见惯的疾病。

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