Linguistic taboos and euphemisms are the indispensable parts in English and Chinese. The two languages have similarities and differences in taboos topics and ways of expressing euphemisms.
禁忌语和委婉语是英汉两种语言中不可缺少的部分，两种语言在禁忌话题方面有相同之处也有不同之处，并有其各自的表达方式。
Through a contrastive analysis, the present paper investigates the similarities and divergences of linguistic taboos in English and Chinese, which massively exist in both languages.
语言禁忌是各种语言中都普遍存在的现象，本文对英语和汉语中的语言禁忌现象进行了探讨和对比分析，并揭示了其相似性和相异性。
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