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。
• They had obtained a high court order forbidding the sale.
  他们已得到高等法院禁止出售的命令。
• They passed a law forbidding the distribution of handbills.
  他们通过一条法令禁止散发传单。
• There was something a little severe and forbidding about her face.
  她脸上有种严肃、冷峻的表情。
• 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 forbidding by law of the manufacture, transportation, sale, and possession of alcoholic beverages.
  禁酒由法律禁止生产、运输、出售和占有烈性酒。
• The interior department framed a criminal code forbidding church services.
  内政部制订了禁止教堂做礼拜的刑事法规。
• 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。
• Signs forbidding the practice were put up in shops, theatres, taverns, parks, etc.
  禁止这一行为的标志贴到了商店、剧场、酒馆、公园等地。
• 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。