请输入您要查询的单词:

 

单词 hypergamous
释义

hypergamous

English

Etymology

hyper- + -gamous

Adjective

hypergamous (comparative more hypergamous, superlative most hypergamous)

  1. Of or pertaining to hypergamy.
    • 1999, Susan Bayly, Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age, Cambridge University Press (2001), ISBN 9780521264341, page 124:
      This is, in fact, an issue on which modern anthropologists have been divided, particularly among those north Indians who are held to practise hypergamous 'upward' marriage.
    • 2005, David P. Barash & Nanelle R. Barash, Madame Bovary's Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literature, Dell (2008), ISBN 9780440241843, page 67:
      Readers can't help siding with Jane's heroines, so sympathetically portrayed in their efforts to get the right man, whereas Becky Sharp may well represent male distrust of scheming hypergamous females.
    • 2011, Vanessa L. Fong, Paradise Redefined: Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World, Stanford University Press (2011), ISBN 9780804772662, page 128:
      Some Chinese citizens even praised male Chinese citizens they knew for having enough status, wealth, charm, and good looks to attract non-Chinese women, who were presumed to desire the same hypergamous relationships that Chinese women were presumed to desire.

Anagrams

  • museography
随便看

 

国际大辞典收录了7408809条英语、德语、日语等多语种在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的翻译及用法,是外语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2023 idict.net All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间:2024/8/8 11:58:28