Public displays of affection between men and women are still widely considered a social taboo in India.

在印度，男女之间在公共场合举止亲密仍还是被普遍认为成社会禁忌。

youdao

You step over someone's legs in Nepal and you might not even realize that you committed a grave social taboo!

在尼泊尔旅游的你，不经意之间跨过了某人的腿，你可能不会觉得，但你已经触犯了一项严重的社会禁忌！

youdao

But it seems that she has preferred discussing a deep Iranian social taboo over the chance to return to Iran.

但现在看来，相对于回到伊朗，她对讨论伊朗的深层社会禁忌更感兴趣。

youdao

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

De Vetyemy wants to strip bare this social taboo.

NPR: Plans for Sex Museum Create an Uproar in Rio

Simply stated, I think when the dust settles on this dispute, the gurus of international investment banking will find that their jobs have been made permanently more difficult by the appearance of a new social investment category that has been declared taboo by some of their largest customers, and by the addition of a new and highly complicated variable to their already crowded due-diligence agendas.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | Lehman��s Analyst Melcher Breaks The News For The Markets: China Must Clean Up Its Act �� or Search Elsewhere For Much-Needed Capital

Or could it have been that in December 1988, even in such a permissive time and place, Daphne suspected that she had somehow managed to cross a forbidden line into a social or cultural or family territory that was taboo?

NPR: One Boy's Heroism in the Face of AIDS