Forbidding

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forbid

(a.) Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.

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• Many, already smitten, went home only to die: some died at the school, and were buried quietly and quickly, the nature of the malady forbidding delay. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I approached and knocked at the door, which was instantly opened by a tall, gaunt woman with a harsh, forbidding face. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no active enemies. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• It is, if you please, like the crops of a rude and forbidding soil--a coarse, distorted thing though living. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Well; but is it true that they have been passing a law forbidding people to give meat and drink to those poor colored folks that come along? 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• And then you wonder that such a charming moth could come from such a forbidding shell as that. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• And the forbidding principle is derived from reason, and that which bids and attracts proceeds from passion and disease? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Mrs. Peniston's icy drawing-room grate shone with a forbidding lustre: the fire, like the lamps, was never lit except when there was company. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• No vegetation softened the nakedness of these rugged rocks, which, streaked with green, yellow, and red, presented a singularly forbidding appearance. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Lord forbidding is pious, but not to the purpose, returned Mr. Jaggers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The one point that was forbidding about this reddleman was his colour. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He then saw a slouching man of forbidding appearance standing in the midst of the school, with a bundle under his arm; and saw that it was Riderhood. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• A restaurant would not pay in such a stony, forbidding, desolate place. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• At that time there was an imperial edict forbidding foreign travel, so that Yuan Chwang started from Singan like an escaping criminal. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Jane, I don't like cavillers or questioners; besides, there is something truly forbidding in a child taking up her elders in that manner. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

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