- 1異性戀
If you are heterosexual, you are sexually attracted to people of the other sex: a man drawn to women, or a woman drawn to men. It can describe a person (a heterosexual woman) or name the person (he is a heterosexual). In everyday talk many English speakers just say straight, which is informal; heterosexual is the careful word, the kind you see on a form, in a clinic, or in a news story about rights. It does not mean “normal” as a scientific fact — it names one common pattern of attraction, next to homosexual, bisexual, and others. Though actually, people use it sloppily when they talk as if it were only about men; it covers women too. The word is not old folk English. Writers built it in the 1890s from Greek-style pieces, when they needed a pair for homosexual.
組成hetero- (other, different) + -sexual (about sex / who you are drawn to). Built in the 1890s.
同家族的字
- homosexualsame -sexual; homo- means “same,” hetero- means “other”
- bisexualsame -sexual piece
- heterogeneoussame hetero- “other / mixed”
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
heterosexualadj/ˌhɛtəɹəˈsɛkʃuəl/
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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.
- Nevertheless, Bumble, the dating app which once styled itself as a beacon of women’s empowerment because heterosexual women had to make the first move, appears to have missed the memo.
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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.
- On the average, the [bisexual] women’s first heterosexual attraction and experience (at 11.6 and 14.7 years) occurred before their first homosexual attraction and experience (at 16.9 and 21.4 years).
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obsoletemedicinesciencesHaving a sexual desire for the opposite sex seen as unhealthy, including a proclivity for nonreproductive sex.
heterosexualnoun/ˌhɛtəɹəˈsɛkʃuəl/
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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.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。