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 。