forbidding

英 [fəˈbɪdɪŋ]

美 [fərˈbɪdɪŋ]

adj.  冷峻的; 令人生畏的
v.  禁止; 不准; 妨碍; 阻碍; 阻止
forbid的现在分词

现在分词：forbidding　复数：forbiddings　

TOEFLGRETEM8

BNC.11423 / COCA.13550

牛津词典

adj.

• 冷峻的；令人生畏的
  seeming unfriendly and frightening and likely to cause harm or danger
  1. a forbidding appearance/look/manner
     冷峻的样子 / 面孔 / 态度
  2. The house looked dark and forbidding.
     房子黑森森的，令人望而生畏。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 可怕的;令人生畏的
  If you describe a person, place, or thing asforbidding, you mean they have a severe, unfriendly, or threatening appearance.
  1. There was something a little severe and forbidding about her face.
     她脸上有种严肃、冷峻的表情。
  2. ...a huge, forbidding building.
     令人生畏的巍峨建筑

双语例句

• In the United Kingdom, a law forbidding people with epilepsy to marry was repealed only in1970.
  在英国，禁止癫痫病人结婚的一项法律只在1970年才被废除。
• We have established sanctions forbidding anyone to trade with that country.
  我们已经实行制裁，禁止任何人与那个国家进行贸易。
• Parliament has passed an Act forbidding the killing of rare animals.
  国会通过了一项法令，禁止捕杀珍稀动物。
• The old professor seemed stern and forbidding.
  这位老教授态度严肃，令人望而生畏。
• This is a law forbidding the import.
  这是一条禁止进口的法律。
• The emperor issued an edict forbidding doing trade with foreigners.
  皇帝颁布了一项不得和外国人做生意的敕令。
• The Court's opinion held that laws forbidding abortions violated the privacy rights of women and their physicians to make decisions involving abortions without interference from the state.
  法院的论点是，禁止堕胎的法律侵犯了妇女和她们的医生在不受州干预的情况下作出有关堕胎决定的隐私权。
• The court has issued an injunction forbidding them to strike for a month.
  法院已经发布了禁止他们罢工一个月的禁令。
• They overturned in 1923 state wartime statutes forbidding the use of foreign languages in school.
  1923年，他们推翻了禁止在学校中使用外语的一些州的战时法令。
• Then I saw a police officer with a forbidding look on his face.
  然后，我看到一位警官，一脸令人生畏的表情。