03/12/2010

allow/permit - 허락하다 (cf. permit, admit, emit)

prohibit/inhibit/prevent/hinder/keep/bar/debar - 금지하다

forbid  - 금지하다

overcome - 극복하다

deter - (겁을 줘서) 못하게 하다.
intimidate - (겁을 줘서) 하게 하다.

example sentences :
I was forbidden to get in touch with anyone.
Women were prohibited from voting until 1832.
A plane was stopped from taking off.
They banned Muslim women from wearing burkas.

Just look at this story:
He offered to buy my computers.
He promised to send me ten thousand dollars at the end of the month.
He swore to credit my account with $10,000 at the end of the month.
He vowed to keep the promise.
He pledged to keep his promise.

He made an oath to remit the money to me.
He made a pledge to wire the money.

I agreed to sell my computers to him.
I consented to sell all of the computers to him

I demand to pay me the money. [x]

He refused to pay me the money.
He denied receiving the computers.
He didn't admit receiving the computers.

He claimed not to have received the computers.

I threatened to accuse him of fraud.
He intimidated me into giving up the money.

(this story will be continued)


TP's comment:
Huge number of words for tomorrow.
Tomorrow is a review day!!!
See ya!