1·Her brisk treatment of an almost taboo subject was a breath of fresh air.
她对一个几乎是禁忌话题的干脆处理令人耳目一新。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·Sexually explicit scenes in movies and books were taboo under the old regime.
电影和书籍中露骨的性爱场景在旧体制下是禁忌的。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·Cancer is a taboo subject and people are frightened or embarrassed to talk openly about it.
癌症是个禁忌的话题，人们对公开谈论它感到害怕或尴尬。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
4·Compulsory education laws predicated in part on the assumption that a child's emotional value made child labor taboo.
义务教育法的出现部分是基于下面的假设：孩子们的情感价值使得童工成为了一种禁忌。
5·But that only makes the subject taboo, paving the path for more awkwardness later on.
但是那样做只会让这个话题成为禁忌，为以后很多尴尬时刻铺平道路。
1·The topic of addiction remains something of a taboo in our family.
毒瘾在我们家依然是个有些忌讳的话题。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·And that is the one big taboo of our age.
而且这也是我们同龄人的一个大忌讳。
3·I foresee a future where the taboo of telling your parents that you're meeting a person from the Internet will be abolished.
我已经预见到了，将来不能告诉你父母你要和一个网上认识的人见面这个忌讳会被废除的。
4·Why should it be taboo to talk about equal pay or a gender balance in the workplace?
为什么在工作场合讨论平等薪资或性别均衡是一件忌讳的事情？
5·Wrapping up that unwanted picture frame from last Christmas and giving it to someone else as a gift might not be as taboo as it once was, according to a study.
一项调查表明，将不合心意的礼物，如上个圣诞节收到的相框，重新包装一下转送给别人已经不再是一种忌讳了。
1·The main expressions of Chinese and English euphemisms include using neutral words instead of taboo words, beautifying, weakening, covering up or omitting things under taboo.
英、汉语中委婉语的表达方式主要有：以中性（或正性）词顶替忌讳词、美化、淡化、讳饰、省略不谈所避讳的事情等。
2·A man should taboo bad hobbies, and cultivate good habits.
作为男人应该避讳不良嗜好，培养良好的习惯。
3·This paper analyses the communicative functions of euphemism from the Angle of indirect speech act: avoidance of taboo words, politeness and withholding information.
本文从间接言语行为的角度，分析了英语委婉语的避讳、礼貌和掩饰三种交际功能。
4·In this dictionary the ideogram is used to mean 'taboo'.
在本词典中，用符号表示避讳语。
5·In this dictionary the ideogram is used to mean 'taboo '.
在本词典中，用符号表示避讳语。