TABOO

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我很急...請大家幫幫忙!!!謝謝Captain James Cook

a British navigator and explorer

not only made many territorial discoveries in the islands of the South Pacific Ocean. He also made a linguistic discovery: the term taboo. Captain Cook recorded this word in his journal of 1777 while he was in the Friendly Islands (now Tonga). The word taboo

which we have borrowed

comes from the Tongan tabu. The Tongans used tabu as an adjective that refers to persons or things