inhibit
/ɪnˈhɪbɪt/verb
1inhibited, inhibiting
with obj. hinder, restrain, or prevent (an action or process)阻碍, 制止, 防止（动作, 过程）：cold inhibits plant growth.
寒冷抑制植物生长。
1.1
inhibit someone from doing something
prevent or prohibit someone from doing something阻止, 禁止：the earnings rule inhibited some retired people from working.
收入法规禁止一些退休人员工作。
1.2
- make (someone) self-conscious and unable to act in a relaxed and natural way使窘迫, 使不知所措：
his mother's strictures would always inhibit him.
他母亲的责难总让他发窘。
1.3
- chiefly Physiology & Biochemistry (chiefly of a drug or other substance) slow down or prevent (a process, reaction, or function) or reduce the activity of (an enzyme or other agent)【主生理, 主生化】（主要指药物等物质）抑制（过程, 反应, 官能）; 降低（酶等）的活性。
1.4
- (in ecclesiastical law) forbid (a member of the clergy) to exercise clerical functions（教会法用语）禁止（神职人员）司神职。
派生词
inhibitive
adjective词源
late Middle English （in the sense 'forbid (a person) to do something'）: from Latin inhibere 'hinder', from in- 'in' + habere 'hold'.