polygyny

1. Polygyny is the privilege of the wealthy and of the nobility, the women being recruited chiefly through purchase as slaves;
   多妻制是富人和显贵人物的特权，多妻主要是用购买女奴隶的方法取得的；
2. Before we go on to monogamy, which developed rapidly with the overthrow of mother-right, a few words about polygyny and polyandry.
   在说到随着母权制的覆灭而迅速发展起来的一夫一妻制以前，我们再就多妻制和多夫制说几句话。
3. So far as our evidence goes, the higher vertebrates know only two forms of family& polygyny or separate couples;
   在较高等的脊椎动物中，据我们所知，只有两种家庭形式：多妻制和成对配偶制；
4. McLennan knew only three forms of marriage: polygyny, polyandry and monogamy.
   麦克伦南只知道三种婚姻形式：一夫多妻制，一妻多夫制和个体婚制。
5. The men live in polygyny, the women in polyandry.
   男子过着多妻制的生活，而妇女则过着多夫制的生活。
6. Monogyny and polygyny which people scrupulously abide by nowadays have a history of only several thousand years.
   今天被人们所恪守和推崇的个体婚家庭，只有几千年，至多上万年的历史。
7. The pattern of copulation behavior mainly exists in the form of polygyny.
   在扭角羚群体内主要是以一夫多妻制的形式存在。
8. The system of polygyny of imperial clan in the Qing Dynasty
   清皇族多妻制和女子来源
9. What was the family lite millions of years before the emergence of monogyny and polygyny?
   那么，在这之前的几百万年间人类家庭是怎样的？
10. The reason why I cannot in detail discuss monogamy partly is that I doubt that polygyny can save the problem of divorce. The problem can be answered only under the condition that we possess detain history material and full real study.
    本人对一夫一妻制未能详细论述的原因部分在于多妻制能解决离婚问题吗？这个难题的答案只有在拥有详细的历史资料和充分的现实调查的条件下才能得出。

noun

1. having more than one wife at a time