prohibitive
/prəʊˈhɪbɪtɪv/adjective
1
- (of a price or charge) excessively high; difficult or impossible to pay（价格, 收费）过高的; 高得负担不起的：
the costs involved were prohibitive
涉及的成本高得令人望而却步
prohibitive interest rates.
高得难以承受的利率。
2
- (especially of a law or rule) forbidding or restricting something（尤指法律、规章）禁止的, 禁止性的：
prohibitive legislation.
禁止性法规。
2.1
- (of a condition or situation) preventing someone from doing something（情况、局势等）阻止某人做某事的; 令人望而却步的：
a wind over force 5 is prohibitive.
五级以上的大风使人无法再干活。
派生词
prohibitively
adverbprohibitiveness
noun词源
late Middle English (in sense 2)： from French prohibitif,-ive or Latin prohibitivus,from prohibit- 'kept in check'，from the verb prohibere （see PROHIBIT）.