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单词 the birds and the bees
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the birds and the bees
d. colloquial (euphemistic). the birds and the bees and variants: the facts about human sexual functions and reproduction, especially as told to children.Often humorous, with allusion to the inadequate accounts given to young children.
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the birds and the bees1933
1933 Bergen Evening Rec. (Hackensack, New Jersey) 27 Mar. 26/7 Mothers and schools are going out of their way to teach the young what are known in capital letters as the Facts of Life... Long before the epic of the birds and the bees and the flowers comes into the child's life, he has been told about it by well-informed playmates.
1939 News-Herald (Franklin, Pa.) 20 Feb. 4/2 A Frenchman was born sophisticated; he knows about the birds and the bees. In consequence, French films are made on the basis of artistic understanding that does not hamper the story.
1950 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 50 36 A far cry from ‘the birds and the bees’ school of thought is How to Tell Your Child About Sex, Public Affairs Pamphlet No. 149.
2015 New Yorker 5 Jan. 18/1 Several hundred of those cheerful and unembarrassable souls whose calling it is to teach about the birds and the bees.
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