terminally ill

基本解释

Mr Rogoff likens the situation to that of a terminally ill patient who is offered a risky treatment that may cure the disease but is sure to have nasty long-term side-effects.
Mr Rogoff把形势比作一个绝症病人接受一项有风险的治疗，也许能冶好但确定会有严重的、长期的副作用。
The police did not investigate the deaths earlier this year of Peter and Penelope Duff, who became the first terminally ill British couple to be helped to die together in Switzerland.
警方并没有调查今年早些时候彼得和佩内洛普·达夫夫妇的死亡，他们是第一对在瑞士接受安乐死的绝症英国夫妇。
This showed that when doctors had frank conversations about the end of life with terminally ill cancer patients, the patients typically chose not to request very intensive medical interventions.
当医生直白地告诉病人，他因为绝症将要走到生命的尽头的时候，患者通常会选择拒绝过分密集的医疗介入。

which former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said on the Internet would decide whether terminally ill senior citizens would live or die.
Well, the reason for thinking otherwise, the reason for not being utterly dismissive of this suggestion, is that when people get ill, terminally ill, it often seems to take them by surprise.
其他的想法产生的原因，人们没有完全摒弃这个假设的原因，是当人们得病，病入膏肓时，这通常让人措手不及。
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Two hundred seventy people were killed in the attack. Opposition Scottish Labor leader Iain Gray was blunt in his criticism of Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill, who made the call to allow Abdel Basset al-Megrahi to leave prison and return home to Libya on compassionate grounds because he is terminally ill.

Paul worked in a hospice where he sat among the terminally ill and watched them die.
NEWYORKER: The Valetudinarian