cannibalism的意思|cannibalism的解释-里氏词典

cannibalism ['kænəbl.`ɪzəm]

n. 嗜食同类, 食人, 嗜血成性

Morality is the custom of one's country; cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country.
道德是一个人所在国家的风俗习惯：在吃人的国家里，吃人是合乎道德的。
They, however, don't know why cannibalism is a bad thing and that can be useful sometimes.
他们不知道为什麽吃人是件不好的事情，不过有时吃人会带来点好处。
The stories of chaos, murder, rape and even cannibalism among the storm's victims turned out to be false.
对于风暴受害者中混乱、杀、奸，甚至相残的报道原来是杜撰的。

cannibalism

[ noun ]
the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind
<noun.act>

Cannibalism \Can"ni*bal*ism\, n. [Cf. F. cannibalisme.]
The act or practice of eating human flesh by mankind. Hence;
Murderous cruelty; barbarity. --Berke.

But, although he admitted resorting to cannibalism to stay alive after the group became stranded in the snow, Packer maintained until his death that he had killed only one.
Starvation, scurvy and cannibalism apparently claimed the lives of most members of the expedition, she said.
So far, lawmakers said they saw no sign that anyone was moving against Wright in a power grab. "I don't see any cannibalism going on," said one.
He decided to decrease the mutilation and cannibalism, lighten up on the bondage and cut out the white slavery.
Thirty-one refugees died and survivors resorted to cannibalism before they were rescued by Filipino fishermen June 27 after 37 days at sea, U.N. officials said.
When Democrats stood up and broke into applause after Wright called for an end to "this period of mindless cannibalism" in the House, Gingrich conferred briefly with Michel, then grinned and joined other Republicans in rising.
The archaeologists are participating in a dig organized by George Washington University law professor James Starrs, who wants to learn the truth about the 1874 cannibalism case.
The high priest of a religious cult has been sentenced to death for murder and leading cannibalism rites where believers ate one of the sect's followers.
Throughout the 10-week trial, spectators crowded into the courtroom to hear watch videotaped hypnosis sessions and hear testimony on everything from multiple personalities to cannibalism and the meaning of truth.
Perrault and the Grimm brothers left out the cannibalism and made Little Red Riding Hood into "a real wimp" who "stupidly tells the wolf where she's going" on the way to her grandmother, Dundes said.
In fact, in fact, it is their reasoned judgment under extraordinary pressure that stands between us and the cannibalism which the speaker referred to.
The 52 refugees who survived 37 days in the South China Sea reportedly resorted to cannibalism.
A military judge on Thursday dropped one of three charges against a Navy captain accused of abandoning scores of Vietnamese refugees who later resorted to cannibalism to survive at sea.
A military jury spared a U.S. navy captain serious punishment after convicting him today of failing to help Vietnamese boat people who resorted to cannibalism to survive.
Contrary to officials' earlier assertions, no evidence of cannibalism was found, Neck said.
Greed also was pretty widely distributed, according to Mr. Sterner, in the epoch of corporate cannibalism just ending. Labor sucked companies dry.
He confessed to killing only one, but said he did it in self-defense and admitted to cannibalism, but only in the interest of self-preservation.
But Starrs said the case is significant because Packer was the only person prosecuted in the United States for cannibalism.
He said he shot Bell in self-defense, finished him off with the hatchet and then survived the winter through cannibalism.
"It's a matter of class, culture and education that raises us above the superstition and cannibalism of some of the country folk," said an Americo-Liberian woman.
If you had a culture which practised anthropophagy (cannibalism), and argued 'this is our culture' we will tell them 'even if it's your culture it's not acceptable.
Signs of cannibalism have been found in up to 20 digs, scattered over thousands of square miles and centuries.
The jury had heard an edited version of the tape, without references to cannibalism and a feeling of being two persons, during the first part of the trial.
Another visitor donated a vial supposedly containing wood from the cabin of the ill-fated Donner party, who turned to cannibalism after being trapped by Sierra snows in 1846.

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