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

• 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。
• There is a clause in the contract forbidding tenants to sublet.
  合同中有一条款禁止承租人转租房屋。
• A university can seem a forbidding place to new students.
  大学对新生来说可能是一个令人生畏的地方。
• 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。
• Forbidding Victorian architecture and statues.
  维多利亚时代令人生畏的建筑和雕像。
• 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。
• This case throws array spotlight on the strict laws in Thailand forbidding any criticism of the monarchy.
  该案使公众的目光投向泰国严格的法律，泰国法律禁止对君主有任何批评言论。
• The old professor seemed stern and forbidding.
  这位老教授态度严肃，令人望而生畏。
• In my ( limited) experience, being forbidding is dead easy.
  在我（有限的）经历中，令人难以亲近简单透了。
• Grant only very narrow permissions at first& at least forbidding arbitrary users from modifying it.
  最初只授与非常有限的权限；至少禁止任意的用户修改它！