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Antique shops exert a peculiar fascination on a great many people. The more expensive kind of antique shop where rare objects are beautifully displayed in glass cases to keep them free from dust is usually a forbidding place. But no one has to muster up courage to enter a less pretentious antique shop.
forbidding adj. 望而生畏的，望而却步的
having a unfriendly or danger look
He has got a forbidding appearance.
We’d better not visit the forbidding coast.
forbid v.
forbid sb to do sth 禁止做某事
Eg: The father forbid his children to touch the clavichord.
forbid doing sth 禁止做……事
forbidden
Smoking is forbidden here.
the Forbidden City
Forbidden fruit
Forbidden zone
