| 释义 |
preˈsexual, a.
[pre- B. 1.]
Preceding or not yet influenced by sexual activity or sexual awareness; pre-pubertal; also Gram., not (yet) differentiated by natural gender.
1919M. K. Bradby Psycho-Anal. iv. xii. 164 Because our own sexuality is associated with sense of guilt, to us innocence implies a pre-sexual state of mind. 1925D. H. Lawrence St. Mawr 204 They [sc. pine-trees] hedged one in with the power..of the pre-sexual primeval world. 1927B. Malinowski Sex & Repression in Savage Society i. ix. 77 The development of pre-sexual life at this stage also differs in Europe and Melanesia. 1949Archivum Linguisticum I. 168 A syntactic peculiarity of old Bulgarian declension..discloses the existence of a presexual division of nouns into animate and inanimate. 1961R. F. C. Hull tr. Jung's Coll. Wks. IV. 118 The necessity for this becomes really urgent when we ask ourselves whether the intense joys and sorrows of a child in the first years of his life, that is, at the presexual stage, are conditioned solely by his sexual libido. 1971G. H. Bourne Ape People xi. 254 Presexual play in humans often involves the nibbling or biting of the earlobes. |