taboo
taboo 英 [təˈbu:] 美 [təˈbu, tæ-]
n. 禁忌；禁止 adj. 禁忌的；忌讳的
名词复数:taboos
- Something considered taboo is naughty, something society considers a no-no. For example, it is taboo to ask people how much money they earn.
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- n. 禁忌；禁止
- adj. 禁忌的；忌讳的
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1. a taboo on working on a Sunday
禁止星期日工作的习俗
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2. to break a taboo, to violate a taboo
触犯禁忌
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3. Death is one of the great taboos in our culture.
在我们的文化中，“死亡”是一大忌。
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4. The subject is still a taboo in our family.
这个话题在我们家里仍然讳莫如深。
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5. in the days when sex was a taboo subject
在谈性色变的时代
- taboo (adj.) also tabu, 1777 (in Cook's "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean"), "consecrated, inviolable, forbidden, unclean or cursed," explained in some English sources as being from Tongan (Polynesian language of the island of Tonga) ta-bu "sacred," from ta "mark" + bu "especially." But this may be folk etymology, as linguists in the Pacific have reconstructed an irreducable Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu "sacred, forbidden" (compare Hawaiian kapu "taboo, prohibition, sacred, holy, consecrated;" Tahitian tapu "restriction, sacred, devoted; an oath;" Maori tapu "be under ritual restriction, prohibited"). The noun and verb are English innovations first recorded in Cook's book.
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