incest
incest 英 [ˈɪnsest] 美 [ˈɪnˌsɛst]
n. 乱伦；近亲通婚
名词复数:incests
- Incest is a word for any kind of sex between family members: parent and child, brother and sister, or cousin and cousin.
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- n. 乱伦；近亲通婚
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1. incest remains one of society's last taboos and is an unthinkable concept to most people.
近亲通婚是现代社会的最后禁忌之一，大部分人还是无法接受这种观念。
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2. In chimpanzee societies, males stay where they are born and females disperse at puberty to neighboring groups, thus avoiding incest.
在黑猩猩社会，雄性呆在它们出生的地方，雌性则在青春期就被驱逐到相邻的群落，以避免近亲繁殖。
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3. We know that females avoid mating with their brothers and sons, but now we'll be able to learn whether an incest taboo exists between fathers and daughters as well.
我们知道雌猩猩会避免和兄弟及雄性后代交配，现在我们将能进一步研究父亲和女儿之间是否同样被近亲交配的禁忌所束缚。
- incest (n.) "the crime of sexual intercourse between near kindred," c. 1200, from Old French inceste "incest; lechery, fornication," and directly from Latin incestum "unchastity, impious unchastity," also specifically "sexual intercourse between close relatives," noun use of neuter adjective incestus "unchaste, impure," from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + castus "pure" (see caste). Old English had sibleger "incest," literally "kin-lying."
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