The gift-giving season is here! It is time to consider what kind of Christmas gifts you can get for your friends or even business partners-especiall  (34) . Different cultures have different taboos for giving gifts, and you should bear them in mindwhen choosing your gifts. (35) , here are two gift-giving taboos to avoid from around the world. 1. Gifts with "death" connotation    Giving a clock to a Chinese friend is quite not a good ideabecause it means they are runing out of time on carth. In Europe,we don't buy lilies or white roses when we go over your friend'shome for dinner since these flowers are only used in funerals.Moreover, for Italian friends, don't buy them handkerchiefs aspresents(36)   2. Gift Wrap and Prescntation  (37) . Black and white are the last choice inmost cultures. Pink and yellow are associated with death inMorocco while purple is a symbol of bad luck in Italy. On theother hand, giving an unwrapped gift is not polite in East Asia. *taboo 禁忌 bear..in mind 謹記在心 avoid避免connotation 意涵funeral葬禮 handkerchief手帕 contain 包含wrap包裝 associate with 和...有關聯
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(A) if they come from different cultural backgrounds
(B) when you don't have much money to buy gifts
(C) if they want top-of-the-line and expensive gifts
(D) if you don't know each other very well