taboo
常考释义
1.(文化或宗教习俗方面的)禁忌,忌讳,戒律a cultural or religious custom that does not allow people to do, use or talk about a particular thing as people find it offensive or embarrassing
an incest taboo乱伦禁忌
a taboo on working on a Sunday禁止星期日工作的习俗
to break/violate a taboo触犯禁忌
Death is one of the great taboos in our culture.在我们的文化中,“死亡”是一大忌。
2.禁止;避讳a general agreement not to do sth or talk about sth
The subject is still a taboo in our family.这个话题在我们家里仍然讳莫如深。
The breaking of a taboo is usually upsetting or embarrassing for the person concerned .
打破禁忌经常会令相关的人生气或尴尬。
Sex education has always been a low priority in schools, and parents are often reluctant to talk about the still-taboo issue.
性一直是学校的一个薄弱环节,家长们也常常羞于与孩子们讨论这个仍被视为禁忌的话题。
Discussing politics on the job used to be regarded as poor form. But employees today are more apt to chat about this once- taboo topic.
过去,在工作中谈论政治被认为是卑鄙的行为。但是如今的员工却更愿意在工作场所谈论这一禁忌的话题。
Although masturbation is often treated as taboo, it's entirely normal and extremely common.
虽然自慰一直都被认为是禁忌,但是这是个很正常也很普遍的行为。
Talk just in the meantime, her eyes inside but is not from taboo of peeped out a silk despise smiling face.
只是,Moncler,说话的同时,她眼里却是不自禁的露出了一丝不屑笑容。
The topic of sex is something of a taboo in Chinese daily conversation.
中国日常谈话忌讳性方面的话题。
Valuing cultural taboo an important function to seem to be in outward the exchanges is importance.
重视文化禁忌在对外交流中重要作用显得尤为重要。
Even the love-making scenes between the two girls seem to be more for making the film sexy than to discuss a social taboo.
尽管比起讨论社会禁忌来,这两个女孩儿的做爱场景可以让这部电影更煽情。
In 1925, when "Indian Camp" was first published, in Hemingway's first book, In Our Time, how much more of a taboo subject than now.
但在1925年,当《印第安人营地》在海明威的第一部书中出版时,其敏感程度显然非今时可比。
There is still a taboo on nudity in the office, and I don't think I've seen anyone at a desk wearing a pair of flannel pyjamas.
现在办公场所仍禁止裸体,此外,我也没见过有谁穿法兰绒睡衣上班。
Taboo or not these people are part of our society and their contributions over the years cannot be denied.
无论禁忌与否,这些人都是我们这个社会的一部分,在过去的这些年里,他们的贡献是不可否认的。
Americans do not understand Japanese, the word taboo but suffered a major loss 4 shows how important understanding of taboo practices.
美国人不了解日本人有关4字的禁忌而吃了大亏,可见了解禁忌习俗有多重要。
It may not be as taboo as you think.
或许你并不认为这是种忌讳。
Thus the incest taboo and male domination were sufficient to promote our ancestors from a state of nature to one of culture.
因此,乱伦禁忌和男性统治足以推动从自然状态的我们的祖先的文化。
Clearly, it is not a good idea to bottle up workplace worries or to make your day-to-day activities taboo.
很明显的,抑制工作地方的忧虑或使日常活动成为禁忌并不是一个好主意。
Taboo to ask personal income and property status, taboo asked whether women marital status, age, and clothing prices, private affair.
忌讳问个人收入和财产情况,忌讳问妇女婚否、年龄以及服饰价格等私事。
Taboo words can be used for a variety of reasons, including to achieve a specific reaction from others.
使用禁忌词汇可能会处于不同的原因,也包括激起他人特定的反应。
"Industrial policy is no longer taboo, " says Mario Monti, a former competition commissioner. "There's a revival of demand for it. "
“工业政策再也不是禁忌”,前任反垄断委员马里奥•蒙蒂这么说道,“其需求复苏了。”
But her demand for freedom also seems to include transgression of decisive cultural borders by questioning the incest-taboo.
在对自由的诉求中,阿尔文太太对乱伦禁忌的质疑僭越了文化边界。
The film is filled with the sort of taboo topics that are banned by China's film censors.
这部影片充满了为大陆电影审查当局所不见容的禁忌话题。
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