堕胎 (墮胎)
duò tāi
Pinyin
Definition
堕胎 (墮胎)
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- to induce an abortion
- induced abortion
Character Decomposition
Idioms (3)
肉眼凡胎
- 1 ignoramus (idiom)
脱胎换骨
- 1 to shed one's mortal body and exchange one's bones (idiom); born again Daoist
- 2 to turn over a new leaf
- 3 fig. to change wholly
- 4 to create from other material (story, artwork etc)
脱骨换胎
- 1 to shed one's mortal body and exchange one's bones (idiom); born again Daoist
- 2 to turn over a new leaf
- 3 fig. to change wholly
Sample Sentences
正如你所想,得知这个消息后,澳洲夫妇要求代理孕母堕胎,而派塔拉蒙则因为自己的佛教信仰而拒绝了。生产后,澳洲夫妇将健康的女婴带回了澳洲抚养,而将患有唐氏症和先天性心脏病的小男孩盖米留在了泰国。
As you might think, when they found out this information, the Australian couple asked her to have an abortion, but Pattaramon, because of her Buddhist faith, refused. After the birth, the Australian couple took the healthy child back to Australia to raise her and left the little boy Gammy with Down syndrome and congenital heart disease in Thailand.