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单词 verboten
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Definition of verboten in English:

verboten

adjectivevəːˈbəʊt(ə)nfɛɐˈboːtnfərˈbōtn
  • Forbidden, especially by an authority.

    bank fishing is verboten on Strathbeg
    the list of verboten films
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If I find out something I've written about is verboten it is coming down.
    • There are other unmentionable things that may put us on stable financial ground but mentioning such things is verboten.
    • Among the verboten items is one employee's box of tissues, because it features a representation of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet.
    • And Lee found that certain words were verboten while in pitch mode.
    • Plastic was also verboten as it would turn into chemical lava.
    • Their speech codes, and how they were enforced, made it clear that opinions about certain ‘highly charged topics’ were verboten.
    • The subject is verboten because the Left has declared it so.
    • This is verboten, as I say, unless you can prove your ‘main profile or income’ doesn't come from the BBC.
    • To begin with, anything even remotely sexist is verboten.
    • Ratzinger exercised extraordinary ‘thought-control’ in deciding which works of theologians were orthodox and which were verboten.
    • It was verboten to interrupt Johnny, and you wouldn't have dared anyway, just from the tension that surrounded him.
    • And yet it's possible to find sympathy, even empathy, for people who indulge in such verboten practices.
    • If there is a verboten surface in this room that Andy and Mike didn't investigate last night I don't know what it was.
    • We wanted to develop our success with the MGF but BMW had a roadster of its own and even talking about MG was verboten.
    • Yes, what she'd proposed was verboten; but as long as none of us said anything, it would be O.K.
    • Conservative ideas take on even greater allure for students when the authorities say they're verboten.
    • Speaking objectively about terrorism these days is verboten.
    • Live ammunition was verboten - electronic sensors mounted on people, vehicles, and buildings tallied the damage.
    • The war is verboten, out of bounds, off limits, bad form, we've moved on from all that.
    • Burials, like wirelesses and guns, were verboten.
    Synonyms
    illegal, unlawful, illicit, against the law, criminal, lawbreaking, actionable, felonious

Origin

German.

Rhymes

croton, Dakotan, Minnesotan, oaten
 
 

Definition of verboten in US English:

verboten

adjectivefərˈbōtn
  • Forbidden, especially by an authority.

    bank fishing is verboten on Strathbeg
    the list of verboten films
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Their speech codes, and how they were enforced, made it clear that opinions about certain ‘highly charged topics’ were verboten.
    • It was verboten to interrupt Johnny, and you wouldn't have dared anyway, just from the tension that surrounded him.
    • Ratzinger exercised extraordinary ‘thought-control’ in deciding which works of theologians were orthodox and which were verboten.
    • The war is verboten, out of bounds, off limits, bad form, we've moved on from all that.
    • Plastic was also verboten as it would turn into chemical lava.
    • To begin with, anything even remotely sexist is verboten.
    • Live ammunition was verboten - electronic sensors mounted on people, vehicles, and buildings tallied the damage.
    • And yet it's possible to find sympathy, even empathy, for people who indulge in such verboten practices.
    • We wanted to develop our success with the MGF but BMW had a roadster of its own and even talking about MG was verboten.
    • Yes, what she'd proposed was verboten; but as long as none of us said anything, it would be O.K.
    • And Lee found that certain words were verboten while in pitch mode.
    • Burials, like wirelesses and guns, were verboten.
    • The subject is verboten because the Left has declared it so.
    • There are other unmentionable things that may put us on stable financial ground but mentioning such things is verboten.
    • Among the verboten items is one employee's box of tissues, because it features a representation of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet.
    • This is verboten, as I say, unless you can prove your ‘main profile or income’ doesn't come from the BBC.
    • If I find out something I've written about is verboten it is coming down.
    • If there is a verboten surface in this room that Andy and Mike didn't investigate last night I don't know what it was.
    • Speaking objectively about terrorism these days is verboten.
    • Conservative ideas take on even greater allure for students when the authorities say they're verboten.
    Synonyms
    illegal, unlawful, illicit, against the law, criminal, lawbreaking, actionable, felonious

Origin

German.

 
 
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