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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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 old professor seemed stern and forbidding.
  这位老教授态度严肃，令人望而生畏。
• In the past, the region had been protected by its forbidding geography and the extremities of its climate
  过去，这个地区令人生畏的地理条件和极端的天气状况使它受到保护。
• 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。
• Parliament has passed an act forbidding the slaughter of animals for pleasure.
  议会通过了一项禁止杀生取乐的法令。
• They passed a law forbidding the distribution of handbills.
  他们通过一条法令禁止散发传单。
• 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。