Taboo
[tə'buː] or [tə'bu]
解釋/意思:
(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
解釋/意思:
(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.
校對:斯坦顿
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Interdict, prohibition.
v. a. Interdict, forbid, prohibit, put under taboo, put under an interdict, forbid to be used or touched.
卡梅拉校對
解釋/意思:
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
例句/造句/用法:
- When the mass of men emerged from slavish obedience and made democracy inevitable, the taboo entered upon its final illness. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- For reasons worth analyzing later, these representative American citizens desired both the immediate taboo and an ultimate annihilation of vice. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- As soon as government begins to supply services, it is turning away from the sterile tyranny of the taboo. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- For if ownership is a human need, we certainly cannot taboo it as the extreme communists so dogmatically urge. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Far better we may say that moral and social problems be left to private solution than that they be subjected to the clumsy method of the taboo. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The policeman with his taboo did make moral and social questions insusceptible to treatment in party platforms. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- If by some magic every taboo of the commission could be enforced the abolition of sex slavery would not have come one step nearer to reality. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- You cannot beat the bosses with the reformer's taboo. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Its only method was to forbid, to prosecute, to jail--in short, to use the taboo. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The routineer with his taboo does not see this, so he attempts the impossible task of obliterating the impulse. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- But if the problem is more heavily charged with power, the taboo irritates the force until it explodes. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The routineer in a panic turns to the taboo. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Possibly they were somewhat disillusioned about the present instruments of the taboo; perhaps they imagined that a new broom would sweep clean. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- If it is, then the taboo enforced by a Morals Police is, perhaps, as good a way as any of gaining a fictitious sense of activity. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Without it there would to-day be no demand for a creative statesmanship which turns its back upon the routine and the taboo, kings and idols, and non-human purposes. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Anyone who has had the smallest experience of municipal politics knows that the corruption of the police is directly proportionate to the severity of the taboos it is asked to enforce. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The aroused public opinion which the Commission asks for cannot be held if all it has to fix upon is an elaborate series of taboos. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- There would be no more empty taboos, no erecting of institutions upon abstract and mechanical analogies. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Nothing dynamic holds the recommendations together--the mass of them are taboos, an attempt to kill each mosquito and ignore the marsh. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- On all sides of them is a mass of taboos. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It bowed to the prevailing conscience when it proposed taboos instead of radical changes. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The old routines and the old taboos are breaking up anyway, social forces are emerging which seek autonomy and struggle against slavery to non-human purposes. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The same people who with daily insistence say that innovators ignore facts are in the absurd predicament of trying to still human wants with petty taboos. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Note how vague and general are the chance constructive suggestions; how precise and definite the taboos. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
校對:凯尔西