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单词 prohibition
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prohibition
noun[CorU]
uk
/ˌprəʊ.ɪˈbɪʃ.ən//ˌprəʊ.hɪˈbɪʃ.ən/us
/ˌproʊ.ɪˈbɪʃ.ən//ˌproʊ.hɪˈbɪʃ.ən/
theactofofficiallynotallowingsomething, or anorderthat does this:
禁止；禁令
New York City hasannounceda prohibitiononsmokingonbuses.纽约市宣布禁止在公共汽车上吸烟。
Theenvironmentalgroupisdemandingacompleteprohibitionagainstthehuntingofwhales.该环保团体要求彻底禁止捕猎鲸鱼。
It's myfeelingthat themoneyspentondrugprohibition would bebetterspentoninformationandeducation.我觉得花钱禁毒不如把钱用在信息和教育上。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Forbidding and banning things
  • abolish
  • abolition
  • abolitionist
  • anti-censorship
  • ban
  • curfew
  • debar
  • decertification
  • decertify
  • deny
  • disallow
  • non-valid
  • off-limits
  • out of boundsidiom
  • outlaw
  • prohibit
  • unauthorized
  • unkosher
  • verboten
  • veto
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UK politics: legislation & law-making
Prohibition
noun[U]
uk
/ˌprəʊ.ɪˈbɪʃ.ən//ˌprəʊ.hɪˈbɪʃ.ən/us
/ˌproʊ.ɪˈbɪʃ.ən//ˌproʊ.hɪˈbɪʃ.ən/
theperiodfrom 1920 to 1933 when theproductionandsaleofalcoholwas notallowedin the US
禁酒时期（1920至1933年间美国禁止生产和销售酒的时期）
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Twentieth century
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  • Axis Powers
  • D-Day
  • Edwardian
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  • Generation X
  • Generation Y
  • Georgian
  • modernist
  • National Socialism
  • Nazi
  • Nazism
  • post-depression
  • speakeasy
  • the final solution
  • the Gestapo
  • ultra-modernist
  • WWI
  • WWII
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(Definition ofprohibitionfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

prohibition| American Dictionary

prohibition
noun[C/U]
us
/ˌproʊ·həˈbɪʃ·ən,ˌproʊ·ə-/
US history
In the US, Prohibition was theperiodfrom 1920 to 1933 when theproductionandsaleofalcoholwasillegal.
(Definition ofprohibitionfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Prohibition| Business English

Prohibition
noun[U]
uk
/ˌprəʊɪˈbɪʃən/us
theperiodfrom 1920 to 1933 when theproductionandsaleofalcoholwasforbiddenin the US:
There was athrivingblackmarketduring Prohibition.
prohibition
noun[CorU]
uk
/ˌprəʊhɪˈbɪʃən/us
alaworrulethatofficiallystopssomething from being done, or thefactof not beingallowedbyofficialrulesorlaws:
Theregulationsspellout the prohibition ofagediscriminationin theworkplace.
a prohibition against/on sthThere is a prohibition ondisclosinginformation.
(Definition ofProhibitionfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprohibition

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The second rule-of-law benefit explains why lawmakers use precise bloodalcohol limits as a standard for theprohibitionof drunk driving.
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This may because of some moralprohibitionor that post-humans will be extinct or significantly different in their thinking from current humans.
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However, it was unlikely that without other allies, labor alone could have attained the truckprohibition.
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The prohibitions against internal improvements and a protective tariff were among the very few changes made.
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When read in the context of the entire chapter on music, this passage implies musical restraint rather than outrightprohibition.
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Though the sustainability of a society without those prohibitions is staggeringly unlikely, it is not logically impossible.
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These prohibitions had a negative effect on the capacity of individuals to signal credibility to one another.
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Provision is necessary for alternative means of transportation so that a drivingprohibitiondoes not lead to social isolation and frustration.
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These prohibitions were brought about by recognizing that the required miraculous activity was in fact under jurisdiction of causal natural laws.
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Just governance presupposes the guidance of behavior, and the issuing of prohibitions is necessary for such guidance.
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The recentprohibitionon all gifts from drug companies to doctors by several major medical schools illustrates this safe course.
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The second is the conventional assumption that the segmental exponents of morphemes are present in surface representations, unless some specificprohibitiondictates otherwise.
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Only "wrongs done to the victim" are candidates for criminalprohibition.
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They were not interpreted as a blanketprohibitionon the display of feelings.
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Interestingly, the human rights framework within which challenges to such prohibitions have been brought, further entrenches this public/private separation.
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Collocationswithprohibition

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absolute prohibition
Outside these three sectors,absoluteprohibitionwould have been inconsistent with the principle of enforceability.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
blanket prohibition
They were not interpreted as a blanket prohibition on the display of feelings.
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constitutional prohibition
It had aconstitutionalprohibitionon a defence establishment.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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