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polyandry是什么意思

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polyandry 是什么意思

音标:[ 'pɔliændri ]  

中文翻译与英英解释

n.
1.一妻多夫制。
2.【动物;动物学】多雄,一雌多雄(配合);【植物;植物学】多雄蕊。
n.
-drist
多夫女人。
adj.
-drous
having more than one husband at a time

Polyandry (?many, andras?man) is a form of polygamy whereby a woman takes two or more husbands at the same time. In zoology, polyandry is a mating system involving a female and two or more males.

例句与用法

1.But to allow polygyny but not polyandry would be to discriminate against women
但是如果允许一夫多妻制却禁止一妻多夫制,那么可能就会是对妇女的一种歧视。

2.Might that be one small reason among many larger ones explaining why polygyny has been much more common than polyandry
可能出于许多原因,一夫多妻制比一妻多夫制普遍得多,上述原因会是许多较大的理由当中的一个较小理由吗?

3.But with polyandry ( one woman and many husbands ) children cannot , in general , know the identity of their male parent ( although today dna testing could come to the rescue )
但是在一妻多夫制的婚姻(一个女人和许多丈夫) ,子女一般无法知道自己的父亲是谁(尽管如今的dna检测或许可以解决这个问题) 。

4.Polyandry ( a marriage of one woman to many men ) is very rare , but polygyny ( the marriage of one man to many women ) is widely practiced in human societies , even though judeo - christian traditions hold that monogamy is the only natural form of marriage
一妻多夫婚姻(一位女性和多位男性的婚姻)非常罕见,但是一夫多妻(一位男性和多位女性)却在人类社会中普遍存在,尽管犹太-基督教传统认为一夫一妻制是唯一婚姻的自然形式。

 
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