英语词汇taboo的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

taboo. The Friendly Islands (now Tonga) were visited by the great English explorer Captain James Cook in 1777. It is in Cook’s journals that we find the first recorded use of taboo for something banned or prohibited. Cook had taken it, altering the spelling a little, from the Tongan tabu, meaning the same. He later lost his life for violating a taboo, being murdered by natives in Hawaii. Etymologist Alfred Holt reported seeing a dead-end street in Honolulu in 1920 that, instead of reading Dead End, bore the sign TAPU.

词汇	taboo
词源	taboo. The Friendly Islands (now Tonga) were visited by the great English explorer Captain James Cook in 1777. It is in Cook’s journals that we find the first recorded use of taboo for something banned or prohibited. Cook had taken it, altering the spelling a little, from the Tongan tabu, meaning the same. He later lost his life for violating a taboo, being murdered by natives in Hawaii. Etymologist Alfred Holt reported seeing a dead-end street in Honolulu in 1920 that, instead of reading Dead End, bore the sign TAPU.
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