"In Islam,pigs are considered haram, taboo,dirty.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

But in the case of film studies, that was also a taboo subject until recently.

不过电影研究，一直以来也无人问津,电影研究的热潮也就是最近几十年的事情。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

And so you've got this tension between what might be evolutionarily wired impulses and the kind of social constraints that say this isn't good, this isn't appropriate, this is taboo.

因此，两者之间有冲突,一方面，从进化论角度来看，你有这样的冲动,但是从社会建构的立场看,这不合适，是社会禁忌。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

I mean,I think that knowing how HIV basically gets transmitted is something that people are afraid, that people know that they have had extra-marital sex-the whole concept of men who have sex with other men-- it's a big taboo, and the region does not want to admit that we have these groups.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07