polygamy

noun

1. 一夫多妻（制）
   the custom of having more than one wife at the same time

1. 多配偶（制）；一夫多妻（制）；一妻多夫（制）
   Polygamy is the custom in some societies in which someone can be legally married to more than one person at the same time.

1. Historically, most cultures have allowed polygamy.
   从历史上看，很多文化都允许有一夫多妻。
2. In the numerous cultures where polygamy is a function of wealth, there are no doubt many monogamous men who would be polygamous if they could buy more wives.
   在那些一夫多妻与财富相关的诸多文化中，毫无疑问的是，许多只有一个妻子的男性在有能力买到更多妻子的时候会选择一夫多妻。
3. He heads a local Christian religious sect, called the Chana, which allows polygamy.
   查纳是当地一个叫查纳的基督教派别的领袖，该教创立于1942年6月，允许一夫多妻制。
4. I live in a place where polygamy is allowed, but generally avoided.
   我生活在一个允许一夫多妻制、但男人大多只娶一个老婆的地方。
5. The Mormons, organizing themselves in response to a religious vision, practiced polygamy in all their settlements.
   摩门教徒按照宗教幻想而组织起来，他们在自己的所有村落里实行一夫多妻制。
6. In sequential polygamy, the male forms temporary bonds with each female and remains with her for at least one spawning period;
   在继续性的一夫多妻制中，雄鱼形态会暂时的束缚每只雌鱼，且和雌鱼保持至少一段产卵时期；
7. He banned child brides and polygamy, built Beijing's first subway line and started a space program with China's first satellite launch.
   他废除了童养媳和一夫多妻制，建设了北京第一条地铁线路，开启了中国的人造卫星发射计划。
8. Shortly afterwards, the church's fourth president banned polygamy.
   不久以后，教会的第四任会长取消了一夫多妻制。
9. Answer, it is a polygamy, is only in a unit, other beautiful girls of help on those plain girl will have been quietly we let him explain, he seals again.
   回答说，也不是一夫多妻，只是一个单位里，那些不漂亮的姑娘会默默的帮助其他漂亮的姑娘我们再让他解释，他封口不谈了。
10. Polygamy used to be common practice among mormons.
    过去，在摩门教徒中，一夫多妻是常事。
11. That is mostly thanks to Habib Bourguiba, the founding father of the modern Tunisian state, who outlawed polygamy, granted women equal divorce rights and legalised abortion.
    他废除了一夫多妻制，批准男女享有平等的离婚权益，并将堕胎视为合法。
12. Mormon Utah renounced polygamy 111 years ago; It's simply hidden.
    111年前奉行摩门教的犹他州宣布放弃一夫多妻制，但一夫多妻并未消失，它只是隐蔽起来了。
13. Between pairing marriage and monogamy intervenes a period in the upper stage of barbarism when men have female slaves at their command and polygamy is practiced.
    在野蛮时代高级阶段，在对偶婚制和一夫一妻制之间，插入了男子对女奴隶的统治和多妻制。
14. It is messy: Mr Ho ( pictured, with his third wife and their daughter) had four concurrent "wives" in a territory that does not recognise polygamy.
    复杂的家庭状况：在不承认一夫多妻的香港，何生（图中为他的第三任太太和他们的女儿）拥有四房太太。
15. Polygamy does not create extra wives – it just changes the dynamics of who marries whom.
    一夫多妻制并不会创造额外的老婆，只会改变婚配机制。
16. The truth is that most people who argue against polygamy simply cannot count.
    事实上，大多数反对一夫多妻制的人根本不识数。
17. In Canada, two men who are leaders of a breakaway Mormon sect appeared in court in British Columbia on charges relating to their practice of polygamy.
    在加拿大的不列颠哥伦比亚省（卑斯省），一法庭对加拿大两名涉嫌推行多配偶制的嫌犯进行了审判。此二人系摩门教分裂出的一分支的领袖。
18. The guys should have the rights of requesting the diverse marital systems, e.g.the system that one husband has several wives ( polygamy).
    男性应该有要求多元婚姻制度的权利，例如一夫多妻制。
19. It was not yet strict monogamy, as polygamy was permitted for the leading members of the tribe.
    这还不是严格的一夫一妻制，因为还允许显贵实行多妻制。
20. I don't agree with either gay marriage or polygamy for exactly the same reason: both prevent marriage from fulfilling its primary goal.
    我既不同意同性婚姻，也不赞成多配偶制，这完全是基于同样的理由：两者都妨碍婚姻实现自己的基本目标。
21. This sect, which allows polygamy.
    这个教派，允许多妻制。
22. Just this week, news broke of a Michigan man who got busted for polygamy because he posted photos of his2nd wedding while still married to his first wife.
    这个星期，一个在密歇根的男人因为在网上发布了自己第二次婚礼的照片而被发现重婚。他在没有跟自己第一个老婆接触婚约的情况下就进行了第二次婚礼。
23. Persian founder of babism, a19th-century religion that forbade polygamy, begging, trading in slaves, and the use of alcohol or drugs.
    巴布教派的波斯创始人，该教为19世纪的宗教之一，该教禁止多配偶，乞讨，买卖奴隶和使用酒精及麻醉品。
24. And in a Gallup poll in 2006, Americans said adultery was morally worse than either polygamy or human cloning.
    2006年盖洛普民意调查显示，在美国人看来，通奸在道德上比一夫多妻制或人类克隆更加恶劣。
25. Marriage system in Qin Kingdom was composed of ranking polygamy for royal family and monogamy for common people.
    秦国婚姻制度包括王室嫡庶妻等级婚制和庶民一夫一妻婚制。

noun

1. having more than one spouse at a time