经济学人下载:死亡的权力--安乐死(2)

1. The president of Compassion & Choices, a lobby group for doctor-assisted dying, once referred to plastic-bag hoods as “the end-of-life equivalent of the coat hanger”.

refer to 查阅;提到

What I laughingly refer to as my garden is a corner lot by our postage-stamp size house.

我戏称为花园的地方，是我们家那豆腐块大小的屋子旁边的一个犄角旮旯。

2. Dignity—in life and death—seems to preoccupy her and others above all.

life and death 生死攸关

Well, never mind, John, it's not a matter of life and death

好了，约翰，别太在意了。这又不是什么生死攸关的大事。