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A forbidding face, building, or place looks or a little , as if it is telling you not to come near. A dark mountain, a high wall, or a person who never smiles can all look forbidding. The word is built from forbid, but in this use it is not about a rule someone has made. It is about the look and the feeling. You can use it in writing and in speech. Though actually, a forbidding person may be kind once you talk to them — the word is about appearance, not always about the heart.
令人生畏的；看起來很兇、不太歡迎人靠近的
原始詞典資料3 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。
forbiddingadj/fɚˈbɪdɪŋ/
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Appearing to be threatening, unfriendly or potentially unpleasant.
- What cause, cry’d he, can justify our flight, To tempt the dangers of forbidding night?
- […] he was discovered to be proud, to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend.
forbiddingnoun/fɚˈbɪdɪŋ/
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The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.
- But all these poor forbiddings could not stay him;
- 1920, St. John G. Ervine, The Foolish Lovers, London: W. Collins & Sons, Chapter 3, VIII, p. 228, All law was composed of hindrances and obstacles and forbiddings, and therefore he was entirely opposed to Law.
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。