forbidding
v. 禁止；不准（某人）做某事；（使）……不可能做某事，妨碍（forbid 的现在分词）
adj. （外表）冷峻的，令人生畏的；令人厌恶的；险恶的
例句
There was something a little severe and forbidding about her face.
她的脸色严厉且令人生畏。
《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
In the past, the region had been protected by its forbidding geography and the extremities of its climate.
过去，这个地区受到令人生畏的地理条件和极端的天气状况的保护。
Prisons are no longer the grim forbidding places they used to be.
监狱不再是过去那种可怕的、令人生畏的地方。
