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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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