| 单词 | forbid |
| 释义 | for·bid I. transitive verb 1. < forbid the banns > : prohibit < order … forbidding strikes of civil-service employees — Collier's Year Book > < the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges > < God forbid that war should come > 2. a. < I forbid you the house > b. < forbade … movie cameras at House Committee hearings — Americana Annual > < running with the ball is forbidden in basketball > 3. < rocky rapids forbade further progress up the stream > < space forbids further treatment of the subject here > < modesty forbids telling what my part in the affair was > intransitive verb < forbid who will, none shall from me withhold longer thy offered good — John Milton > Synonyms: < forbid a child to go out on a rainy day > < a law forbidding the sale of liquor on Sunday > < limitations of space forbid elaborately detailed treatments of these subjects — American Guide Series: New Hampshire > < the act was wrong in the sense that it was prohibited by law — B.N.Cardozo > < condemned for not taking active steps toward prohibiting an armed group from organizing on its soil — Collier's Year Book > < implements of war would be prohibited and prevented — Vera M. Dean > enjoin, a legal term implying a judicial order that forbids something under penalty, suggests a strong and compelling proscription or exhortation < the president, under the war powers, seized the railroads and the courts enjoined the strike — Collier's Year Book > < a deed of filial duty enjoined upon him by his father's fearful command — Karl Polanyi > < immediately after he had concluded his lecture, someone was certain to enjoin him to relax — Bryan MacMahon > interdict implies prohibition by authority usually for a given time and for a salutary purpose < the navy has prohibited, the church has interdicted the defloration ceremony, formerly an inseparable part of the marriages of girls of rank — Margaret Mead > < alcohol and tobacco are interdicted — Year Book of Medicine > < to interdict, or at least discourage, his visits — George Meredith > inhibit applies to the imposition of restraints or restrictions whether by authority or by circumstances or conditions < signalized the opening of a new reign by inhibiting stage plays — A.T.Quiller-Couch > < stiff royalties — payable in dollars — have inhibited widespread production of United States plays — W.H.Whyte > < the destructive exchange practices which inhibited the flow of world trade — Eugene Meyer > ban implies civil or ecclesiastical prohibition and strongly connotes condemnation or disapproval < these laws … were specific in naming the one weapon to be banned — R.W.Thorp > < the proscribed categories of persons banned from Federal employment — Benjamin Ginzburg > < authorities banned the rebuilding of wooden houses in the same area — Theodore Hsi-en Chen > II. archaic < she becomes a leper herself … and lives for years in a cave hermitage, a thing forbid — Nation > < the sensitive plant, like one forbid, wept — P.B.Shelley > |
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