喜樂美語
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    Verboten means forbidden — not allowed, and not up for discussion. It is a German word that English borrowed whole, spelling and all, and English speakers use it in a very particular way: to point at a rule that feels heavy, strict, or a bit absurd. If you say "phones are verboten in this office," you are half complaining, half joking about how strict the rule is. Plain "forbidden" states a fact; "verboten" adds a raised . Because it is a foreign word, it sounds slightly educated and slightly playful at the same time, and it turns up in journalism, opinion columns and clever conversation more than in real notices. You will not see it on a sign — a sign says NO SMOKING. It came into English partly through the two World Wars, when the German word appeared on real German notices, so it can still carry a faint flavour of harsh authority; some writers use it exactly for that flavour. It is an adjective, and it usually sits after the verb be: something is verboten. Speakers say it roughly as "fer-BOH-ten."

    （帶點調侃、強調規定很硬的）禁止、不准；語感接近中文說「這是絕對禁區」

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成直接從德文 verboten 借來，原意就是「被禁止的」。它和英文 forbidden 是同源詞——兩個字追到最後是同一個祖先，只是一個走德文、一個走英文。

同家族的字

  • forbiddena doublet — the same ancient word, arrived in English by the native route instead of borrowed from German
  • forbidthe verb behind forbidden, sharing that same ancestor

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

verbotenadj/ˌvəˈbəʊtn̩/

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    (Strictly) forbidden or prohibited.

    • Before that, students and professors could date whomever we wanted; the next day we were off-limits to one another—verboten, traife, dangerous (and perhaps, therefore, all the more alluring).
    • Or was it because he [Mark Zuckerberg] has since been steeped in the relentless positivity of Silicon Valley, where it is verboten to imagine a bad outcome?

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。