forbid

Forty years back, computers were seen as something which was forbidding, something which was intimidating, something that reduced jobs.
Il y a 40 ans, les ordinateurs étaient regardés comme étant quelque chose qui interdisait, quelque chose d'intimidant, quelque chose qui menaçait l'emploi.
One day the editor called me in to announce that the head office, 4,000 kilometres away, was forbidding me to write on the Middle East.
Un jour le rédacteur en chef m'a appelé pour m'annoncer que le bureau chef, à 4000 kilomètres de là, m'interdisait d'écrire sur le Moyen-Orient.
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