cockfighting

基本解释

The rooster is a champion rooster that has won about four cockfighting bouts.
这只公鸡是一只“常胜将军”，已经赢得了四场斗鸡比赛。
However, cockfighting is now generally recognized as a form of animal cruelty.
然而，斗鸡现在人们普遍认识是一种形式的虐待动物。
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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只“杀人斗鸡”，这只斗鸡因为不满被逼上斗场搏斗，便用绑在腿上的锋利刀片割破其主人喉咙，将其杀死。

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--.
你可以去查阅,有很多相关的资料和书籍,为什么斗鸡在南方更盛行,为什么打架和挖眼珠子更
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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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