Taboo

[tə'buː] or [tə'bu]

解释:

(noun.) an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion.

(noun.) a prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature.

(verb.) declare as sacred and forbidden.

(adj.) forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands .

整理:莫顿--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction.

(v. t.) To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals.

校对:斯坦顿

同义词及近义词：

n. Interdict, prohibition.

v. a. Interdict, forbid, prohibit, put under taboo, put under an interdict, forbid to be used or touched.

卡梅拉校对

解释:

n. an institution among the Polynesians forming a penal system based on religious sanctions by which certain things are held sacred or consecrated and hence prohibited to be used—by a natural transference of meaning by association of ideas becoming equivalent to 'unholy ' 'accursed'—also Tamboo′ Tambu′ and Tapu′: any prohibition interdict restraint ban exclusion ostracism.—v.t. to forbid approach to: to forbid the use of:—pr.p. tabōō′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. tabōōed′.

整理:罗伯塔