cockfighting

基本解釋

The rooster is a champion rooster that has won about four cockfighting bouts.
這衹公雞是一衹“常勝將軍”，已經(jīng)贏得了四場(chǎng)鬭雞比賽。
However, cockfighting is now generally recognized as a form of animal cruelty.
然而，鬭雞現(xiàn)在人們普遍認(rèn)識(shí)是一種形式的虐待動(dòng)物。
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Indian police of West Bengal are hunting for a killer rooster after the fighting bird slashed its owner's throat with razor blades attached to its legs for the cruel sport of cockfighting.
印度孟加拉邦的警察目前正在追捕一衹“殺人鬭雞”，這衹鬭雞因爲(wèi)不滿被逼上鬭場(chǎng)搏鬭，便用綁在腿上的鋒利刀片割破其主人喉嚨，將其殺死。

You can go way there's lots of books on this and articles on this; why cockfighting was more popular in the South, why country fighting and eye-gouging was--.
你可以去查閲,有很多相關(guān)的資料和書籍,爲(wèi)什麼鬭雞在南方更盛行,爲(wèi)什麼打架和挖眼珠子更
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Thai billionaire Dhanin Chearavanont wants to popularize a kinder, gentler type of cockfighting.
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John McCain (R-AZ) called mixed martial arts "human cockfighting, " and called for it to be regulated by an athletic commission.
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Calling it a sport is likely to earn you funny looks from people who see it as a shady pastime that falls, on the respectability scale, somewhere south of bar darts and north of cockfighting.
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