taboo
英 [t?'bu?]
美[t?'bu]
- n. 禁忌；禁止
- adj. 禁忌的；忌讳的
- vt. 禁忌；禁止
TEM4CET6IELTSGRE低频词常用词汇
词态变化
复数:?taboos;
中文词源
taboo 禁忌，避讳
由英国 18 世纪著名航海家库克船长带入英国，来自太平洋小岛某土著语言 ta-bu,神圣的。
英文词源
- 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;" Maori tapu "be under ritual restriction, prohibited"). The noun and verb are English innovations first recorded in Cook's book.
双语例句
- 1. The Celtic word "geis" is usually translated as "taboo".
- 凯尔特语中的geis一词通常被译作taboo（禁忌）。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. In the main, children are taboo in the workplace.
- 工作场所基本上禁止儿童进入。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. The topic of addiction remains something of a taboo.
- 毒瘾仍然是个有些忌讳的话题。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. So is there any taboo she wouldn't touch? Unhesitatingly she replies, "Politics."
- 那么有什么她不愿触及的禁忌吗？她毫不犹豫地回答：“政治。”
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. a taboo on working on a Sunday
- 禁止星期日工作的习俗
来自《权威词典》