prohibition
prohibition 英 [,prəʊhɪ'bɪʃ(ə)n;prəʊɪ-] 美 [,proə'bɪʃən]
n. 禁止；禁令；禁酒；诉讼中止令
名词复数:prohibitions
- Prohibition is the act of forbidding or outlawing something, like when my mom placed a prohibition on watching TV during dinner (causing everyone to skip dinner).
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- n. 禁止；禁令；禁酒；诉讼中止令
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1. Yet prohibition itself vitiates the efforts of the drug warriors.
但是禁令本身也削弱了药品战士们的成果。
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2. I do remember that we argued the prohibition of retroactive justice in the seminar.
我却记得我在研讨会上争论了有追溯效力的合法禁令问题。
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3. But there is an economic argument as well, one that Franklin Roosevelt understood when he promised to end prohibition during the 1932 presidential campaign.
不过对于恶习的合法化也有经济上的依据，这是富兰克林.罗斯福在1932总统竞选上承诺结束禁令时所理解的。
- prohibition (n.) late 14c., "act of prohibiting, a forbidding by authority," from Anglo-French and Old French prohibition (early 13c.), from Latin prohibitionem (nominative prohibitio) "a hindering, forbidding; legal prohibition," noun of action from past participle stem of prohibere "hold back, restrain, hinder, prevent," from pro "away, forth" (see pro-) + habere "to hold" (from PIE root *ghabh- "to give or receive"). Meaning "forced alcohol abstinence" is 1851, American English; in effect nationwide in U.S. as law 1920-1933 under the Volstead Act.
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