(pl. taboos)
1- a social or religious custom prohibiting or restricting a particular practice or forbidding association with a particular person, place, or thing禁忌。
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- a practice that is prohibited or restricted in this way禁忌行为（或做法）：
speaking about sex is a taboo in his country.
在他的国家性是个忌讳的话题。
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- prohibited or restricted by social custom禁忌的, 避讳的：
sex was a taboo subject.
性曾是个禁忌话题。
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- designated as sacred and prohibited（因神圣而属于）禁忌的：
the burial ground was seen as a taboo place.
墓地被看作是禁地。
(taboos, tabooed)with obj.
- place under a taboo把…列为禁忌：
traditional societies taboo female handling of food during this period.
传统社会禁止女性在这个时期处理食物。
词源
late 18th cent.: from Tongan tabu 'set apart, forbidden'; introduced into English by Captain Cook.