核心畫面
You can picture a door with a hand held up in front of it: someone with authority has said no, and that no is now attached to the thing itself. Forbidden describes the thing that the no has landed on — the act, the place, the topic. The strength of the picture is that the block comes from outside you: a rule, a law, a parent, a sign.
可以想成一扇門前面伸出一隻手：有權力的人說了「不行」，而這個「不行」就黏在那個東西上面了。forbidden 描述的…更多收起
可以想成一扇門前面伸出一隻手：有權力的人說了「不行」，而這個「不行」就黏在那個東西上面了。forbidden 描述的正是被那個「不行」蓋住的對象——某個動作、某個地方、某個話題。這個畫面的重點在於：擋住你的力量來自外面，是規定、是法律、是大人、是牆上那塊牌子，不是你自己不想。原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
forbiddenadj/fəˈbɪdən/
- 1
Not allowed; specifically disallowed.
- Maſters commands come with a power reſiſtleſs / To ſuch as owe them abſolute ſubjection; / And for a life who will not change his purpoſe? / (So mutable are all the ways of men) / Yet this be ſure, in nothing to comply / Scandalous or forbidden in our Law.
- This kind of immediate control structure we take to be characteristic of the tribe, and it leads to a rather rigid type of system in which 'every action not mandatory is forbidden'.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。