To travelers arriving from the north, the island seems forbiddingly antipodal and cold.

对从北方来的游客，这个岛上方向完全相反又天寒地冻，让人难以接近。

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If Americans were to work longer, they could set a financial goal that is attainable rather than forbiddingly distant.

美国人若是都延长了工作年限，那么就能设立一个经济目标，它并非遥遥无期，而是可以实现的。

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At the time of this photo, little was known about bearded seals, due to their forbiddingly frigid habitat and aquatic lifestyle.

拍摄这张照片的时候，由于髯海豹可怕的高喊生活环境和水上生活方式，人们对它们几乎一无所知。

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Unfortunately, Ms. Nixon's acting is part of what's wrong with the production, for she plays Vivian Bearing, the austere, loveless scholar of 17th-century poetry around whose terrible plight "Wit" revolves, as though she were a precocious schoolgirl rather than a full-grown, forbiddingly chilly intellectual.

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