1. Even under a clear blue sky, the village looked forbidding, as all the houses were built of grey mud bricks.
    农舍全用灰色的土坯建成，因此，即使在晴朗的蓝天底下，村庄看上去也会令人感到难以亲近。

2. The more expensive kind of antique shop is usually a forbidding place.
    高级的古董店,一般是令人生畏的场所。

3. 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.
    高档一点的古玩店为了防尘，把文物漂亮地陈列在玻璃柜子里，那里往往令人望而却步。

4. They're too big, too forbidding, and I can't imagine feeling that I'm part of them, and that I'm in them.
    它们太巨大了,令人生畏，很难设想我会感到我是他们中的一部分、而且还身在其中。

5. Notices forbidding the open-air drying of clothes, or the use of water points for car washing,
    禁止露天晒衣服、禁止用水龙头冲洗汽车的布告