heterosexual
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英 /ˌhɛtəɹəˈsɛkʃuəl/|/ˌhɛtɹəˈsɛkʃuəl/
美 /ˌhɛtəɹəˈsɛkʃuəl/|/ˌhɛtəɹoʊˈsɛkʃuəl/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A heterosexual person, or other heterosexual organism.
— The laws banning discrimination based on sexual orientation apply to all people, gay and straight alike. If an antistraight boss starts firing heterosexuals, they're protected.
形容词 adj.
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Sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex.
— Thai charter court rules that only heterosexual marriages are constitutional: Same-sex marriage in Thailand will have to wait, as the Constitutional Court ruled unanimously today (Wednesday) that Section 1448 of the Civil and Commercial Code, defining marriage as being a union between a man and a woman, is constitutional.
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Between two people of different sex.
— Early Adolescence. This is the high school period between 14 and 17 years of age. This is a confusing and stressful period for the teenager, because sexual impulses are now quite strong in spite of societal sanctions against heterosexual activity.
- Having a sexual desire for the opposite sex seen as unhealthy, including a proclivity for nonreproductive sex.
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词源 1
From hetero- + -sexual. Earliest citation from 1892, in C.G. Craddock's translation of Krafft-Ebbing's Psychopathia Sexualis.
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From hetero- + -sexual. Earliest citation from 1892, in C.G. Craddock's translation of Krafft-Ebbing's Psychopathia Sexualis.
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