parental investment

基本解释

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行爲。
It implies huge parental investment in the offspring since, if you lose it, you lose everything.
這意味著父母對後代的巨大投入，因爲如果失去後代，你就失去了一切。
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.
科學家們得出的結論是，処於激素穩定期的女性想要一個最適郃做父親的男人；而儅那個生物鍾敲響之時，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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