parental investment

基本解釋

This “parental investment theory” should apply especially well to humans.
這種“親代投入理論”尤其可以很好地解釋人類(lèi)行為。
It implies huge parental investment in the offspring since, if you lose it, you lose everything.
這意味著父母對(duì)后代的巨大投入，因?yàn)槿绻ズ蟠?，你就失去了一切?/li>
The scientists concluded that when it comes to settling down, women want a male who is the best parental investment. But when the biological bells are ringing, they want Tarzan's genes.
科學(xué)家們得出的結(jié)論是，處于激素穩(wěn)定期的女性想要一個(gè)最適合做父親的男人；而當(dāng)那個(gè)生物鐘敲響之時(shí)，女人想要的則是人猿泰山般的基因。

Progressives who support the right of fifteen year old girls to make decisions about abortion without parental notification do not trust these same girls later in life to make their own investment choices with their Social Security funds.
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